Sylvia a Aki Témata, Symboly a Motivy
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Studenti mohou sledovat různá témata, symboly a motivy přítomné v románu a vytvářet mapu pavouků, která je označuje, definuje a ilustruje.
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- RUCE
- rasismus
- Westminster School Main
- Both girls notice how their fathers are hard working farmers who use their hands to cultivate the land and provide for their families. Their mothers use their hands for sewing, cooking, and braiding hair. Sylvia wonders why the color of her hands matters when she compares them to her cousins, who would would have been accepted to Westminster school because they looked more "white".
- Tyto Munemitsus jsou vězněni vládou jen za to, že japonského původu. Mendezovy děti nesmějí chodit do Westminsterské státní školy jen proto, že jsou mexického původu. Román zdůrazňuje, jak má bílá nadvláda a rasismus kořeny v historii USA a u lidí, kteří bojovali za rovnost a svobodu.
- POSTON INTERNATION CAMP
- PLOTY
- SYLVIA & AKI: Themes, Symbols and Motifs
- DOLLS
- Fences are seen throughout the novel and symbolize the barriers to freedom and equality for the protagonists. There is an electric fence that surrounds the Hoover school and it shocks one of the students who touches it on a dare. Fences also surround the internment camp to imprison the Japanese Americans held there.
- Sylvia and Aki's dolls, Keiko, the Japanese doll, and Carmencita, the Mexican doll, are recurring motifs and symbolize Sylvia & Aki's friendship. Each girl is glad and honored in the end to have a doll that represents their friend's race, culture, and heritage.
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