{"id":"The Red Tricycle (short story)","doctype":"articles","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/The%20Red%20Tricycle%20(short%20story)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/The%20Red%20Tricycle%20(short%20story)/"},"title_sort":"theredtricycleshortstory","description":"The scene as a\n  \n   Nikkei\n  \n  family—a mother with her two daughters and four-year-old son Tommy—make the last preparations at their farmhouse before a truck comes to take them to the train station that will deliver them to a concentration camp. Their spirits are temporarily buoyed by a unexpected kind act by one of the soldiers who comes for them.","rg_rgmediatype":["short stories"],"mediatype_label":"Short Stories","mediatype_icon":"fa-file-text","rg_interestlevel":["Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_theme":["Evils of racism","Injustice","Optimism – power or folly"],"rg_availability":["Available"],"categories":[{"title":"Arts"}],"topics":[],"authors":[{"title":"Brian Niiya","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/authors/Brian%20Niiya/","html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/authors/Brian%20Niiya/"}],"sources":[],"title":"The Red Tricycle (short story)","published_rg":true,"modified":"2018-02-28T17:25:42","databoxes":{"rgdatabox-Core":{"rgmediatype":["short stories"],"title":["The Red Tricycle"],"creators":["Jiro Saito"],"interestlevel":["Grades 9-12","Adult"],"readinglevel":[],"guidedreadinglevel":[],"lexile":[],"theme":["Evils of racism","Injustice","Optimism – power or folly"],"genre":[],"pov":["Told from perspective of Nikkei family"],"relatedevents":[],"availability":["Available"],"freewebversion":["No"],"primarysecondary":[],"hasteachingaids":["No"],"warnings":[],"denshotopic":[],"geography":[],"chronology":["1942"],"facility":[]},"databox-Articles":{"author":["Jiro Saito"],"title":["The Red Tricycle"],"pubname":[],"pubdate":["1985"],"pubdetails":[],"doi":[],"website":[]}},"rg_title":["The Red Tricycle"],"rg_creators":["Jiro Saito"],"rg_pov":["Told from perspective of Nikkei family"],"rg_freewebversion":["No"],"rg_chronology":["1942"],"rg_hasteachingaids":["No"],"body":"<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div class=\"rgonly\">\n  <!--\"rgdatabox-CoreDisplay\" removed-->\n  <div id=\"rgdatabox-Core\" style=\"display:none;\">\n   <p>\n    RGMediaType:short stories;\nTitle:The Red Tricycle;\nCreators:Jiro Saito;\nInterestLevel:Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Evils of racism; Injustice; Optimism – power or folly;\nGenre:;\nPoV:Told from perspective of Nikkei family;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:Available;\nFreeWebVersion:No;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:;\nGeography:;\nChronology:1942;\nFacility:;\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-Articles\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  <p>\n   Author:Jiro Saito;\nTitle:The Red Tricycle;\nPubName:;\nPubDate:1985;\nPubDetails:;\nDOI:;\nWebsite:;\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n  The scene as a\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Nikkei\" title=\"Nikkei\">\n   Nikkei\n  </a>\n  family—a mother with her two daughters and four-year-old son Tommy—make the last preparations at their farmhouse before a truck comes to take them to the train station that will deliver them to a concentration camp. Their spirits are temporarily buoyed by a unexpected kind act by one of the soldiers who comes for them.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n  <b>\n   Authored by\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Brian_Niiya\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n    Brian Niiya\n   </a>\n   , Densho\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <p>\n  Might also like \"\n  <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Memories of Pop (short story)/\" title=\"Memories of Pop (short story)\">\n   Memories of Pop\n  </a>\n  \" by Jiro Saito; \"\n  <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/A Piece of Cake (short story)/\" title=\"A Piece of Cake (short story)\">\n   A Piece of Cake\n  </a>\n  \" by Yachiyo Uehara; \"\n  <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/The Travelers (short story)/\" title=\"The Travelers (short story)\">\n   The Travelers\n  </a>\n  \" by Toshio Mori\n </p>\n</div>\n","moreinfo":"<div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n  <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n   For More Information\n  </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n  <p>\n   Saito, Jiro. \"The Red Tricycle.\"\n   <i>\n    Pacific Citizen\n   </i>\n   , Dec. 20–27, 1985, A-25.\n  </p>\n  <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20250625170634\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.021 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.027 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 215/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 3719/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 570/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 4/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n  <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%   11.149      1 -total\n 28.38%    3.164      1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 18.23%    2.032      1 Template:Published\n 17.69%    1.972      1 Template:Databox-Articles\n 17.36%    1.935      1 Template:AuthorByline\n 16.60%    1.851      1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n  <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:4137-0!canonical and timestamp 20250625170633 and revision id 28313\n -->\n </div>\n</div>"}