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Come See the Paradise Notes

  • The film starts out with a mother and her daughter singing
  • The film takes place in 1936
  • A man gets burned badly while trying to stop a fire in a theater
  • Lily’s father forces her to meet and marry a mand that he owns a lot of money to
  • Jack notices Lily working in the sewing shop and asks her out to lunch
  • Lily goes on another date with Jack
  • Jack tells Lily that he married his ex-wife at 18 and she left him after losing their baby
  • Jack gets fired from the theater after Lily tells her father about them
  • Jack speaks with Lily’s father about being able to see her again
  • Japanese citizens weren’t allowed to marry non-Japanese citizens in California
  • Lily and Jack traveled to Seattle to get married
  • Lily and Jack crash a wedding reception
  • Jack agrees to help with unioning his fish cannery
  • Jack and Lily fight in front of Mini over work
  • Jack gets released from prison the same day as Pearl Harbor
  • Lily’s mother was forbidden from writing to her
  • Jack and Lily reunite in Little Tokyo
  • Jack and Mini are kicked out of a Christmas store
  • President Roosevelt signed the order to send all Japanese families away
  • Lily’s mother burns their personal and security records
  • Jack stays behind and returns to Seattle to check in with his parole officer, promising to find Lily
  • Jack has his parole annulled and pushed into the draft instead
  • Lily’s father is brought to the camp
  • Jack finally finds Lily after seven months
  • Jack stays only for a day and then returned to Fairmont
  • Lily and her family are given the Test
  • Jack ran away from the army to be with his family
  • Jack gets arrested for going AWOL
  • The Supreme Court rules that the camps were unconstitutional and that everyone would be sent home
  • Jack and Lily finally reunited after the war

~ by Angelica Perez on April 26, 2019 . Tagged:



One Response to “Come See the Paradise Notes”

  1.   sengab06 Says:

    I would like to see your thoughts here, in response to what’s happening on screen. I appreciate your diligent note taking, however, I am also interested in reading your thoughts.

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