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Stephen Nakane Timeline and Summary

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Stephen Nakane Timeline and Summary

  • Stephen is the first grandchild in the family, and all of his relatives dote on him. He's the star of the show.
  • In Vancouver, Stephen had a room full of instruments to play with. He plays instruments with his father while his mother sings songs.
  • One day after the war begins, Stephen comes home with broken glasses. He learns the lesson that Japanese people are bad.
  • Another time, some kids beat him up and break his violin.
  • While the family is looking for someplace to move, Stephen develops a limp and he has to wear a cast on his leg.
  • In Slocan Stephen is obsessed with playing his mother's records.
  • When he and Naomi return to school, the white Canadian children threaten Stephen every day before class.
  • When they finally leave Slocan, Stephen accidentally breaks one of his treasured mother's records. His father comforts him.
  • On the sugar beet farm, life sucks so hard that Stephen doesn't even play his instruments. They dry up and crack.
  • When the family moves in to the town, Stephen starts playing again.
  • He plays so much that he becomes famous and starts touring the world.
  • We don't see Stephen again until it is time for Uncle's funeral. He's the same as usual, except a little fatter, a little older, and a little less cranky.
  • The last that we see is Stephen is right after he finds out his mother's fate in Nagasaki. He's just holding his head in his hands.