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She releases the chicks into a cage with a hen that pecks many of the chicks to death.
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Naomi's Father gets sick and has to leave her and her brother with aunt Emily.
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Naomi remembers taking the train to Slocan in 1942, when she was around five years old. A young woman on the train has recently given birth to a premature baby and has no supplies. Obasan gives her apples and oranges. Naomi plays with her toys which her Mother gave her before going to Japan. But she loses the toy when she gets off the train.
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Naomi and her family move to ghost town in Slocan to escape persecution. It is a town without running water or enough food, but they have to live there for several years.
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Nakayama-sensei reads the letters aloud. They are from Grandma Kato to Grandpa Kato. Aunt Emily says that “Everyone someday dies.” and prays to the God. The letter is about suffering, deep love during the war and aftermath of the nuke-bomb attack.
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Naomi moved with her family in 1951. Before that, her family and she came to the spot which was half a mile from the Barker’s farm and seven miles from the village of Grantown once a year.
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Noami and her uncle（Sam） come to virgin land for a walk in a twilight evening. Uncle asks Noami’s age abruptly and repeats that she is too young. When Noami asks her uncle why they came here every year, her uncle doesn't reply.
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Naomi gets a phone call while she is teaching her class that her Uncle Sam died. Obasan seems fine. When Obasan reads a Japanese letter and becomes emotional. She mourns the death of Sam and stares at his ID card.
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Obasan and Naomi go to search the attic and Naomi gets attacked by imaginary spiders. Naomi goes back to bed and dreams of robot lion dog coming out of the forest and yaws then she sees her uncle with a red rose in his mouth and then turns around and clouds cover everything.
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Naomi reads the letters and gets to know Obasn’s past. Obasan argued that the children shouldn't be taken away from her when they had to leave Vancouver. Uncle was released from internment camp and came to live with them. At that time Canadian Japanese were not allowed to leave or lived in the town. Eventually they were allowed to move and lived together again.
