Another Point of View

If the story is from the son’s point of view, the story may be even more unclear than the original story. He wouldn’t know where the White Dog was. He would think the White Dog is just gone and would be back later. While he was packing up the night before leaving, he put everything that he likes into the bag. He didn’t exactly know where he was going to the camp. If he knew that he was going to the camp, he probably wouldn’t bring things like his baseball gloves. Readers will have a hard time trying to understand the background of the story if it wasn’t told from Mrs. Hayashi’s point of view. The son doesn’t really know what happened to his father, Junior. He only knows that he was gone, but didn’t know why. If the story was told from the son’s perspective, readers would only know that his father no longer lives with them, but they won’t know that it’s because Junior was a Japanese American and was sent to camps because of wars. We also wouldn’t know what Mrs. Hayashi’s thinking inside her mind if the son was the narrator. There are a lot of important details that gave us an idea on how the Japanese Americans were treated from Mrs. Hayashi and readers wouldn’t be able to know about it if she wasn’t the narrator.