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As the resettlers exchange information about their destinations, the soldier is drawn to an attractive young woman heading to Chicago, but does not speak to her. After the train leaves, a white family offers a ride to town to the mother of the soldier. \"The Travelers\" originally appeared in the Topaz literary publication\n \n\n All Aboard\n \n\n in 1944 and was republished in Mori's short story collections\n \n The Chauvinist and Other Stories\n \n in 1979 and\n \n Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori\n \n in 2000.", "rg_rgmediatype": [ "short stories" ], "mediatype_label": "Short Stories", "mediatype_icon": "fa-file-text", "rg_interestlevel": [ "Grades 9-12", "Adult" ], "rg_genre": [ "Fiction" ], "rg_theme": [ "Desire to escape", "Optimism – power or folly", "Power of silence" ], "rg_availability": [ "Widely available" ], "categories": [ { "title": "Arts" } ], "topics": [], "authors": [ { "title": "Brian Niiya", "json": "https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/authors/Brian%20Niiya/?format=api", "html": "https://resourceguide.densho.org/authors/Brian%20Niiya/?format=api" } ], "sources": [], "title": "The Travelers (short story)", "published_rg": true, "modified": "2020-10-16T16:43:32", "databoxes": { "rgdatabox-Core": { "rgmediatype": [ "short stories" ], "title": [ "The Travelers" ], "creators": [ "Toshio Mori" ], "interestlevel": [ "Grades 9-12", "Adult" ], "readinglevel": [], "guidedreadinglevel": [], "lexile": [], "theme": [ "Desire to escape", "Optimism – power or folly", "Power of silence" ], "genre": [ "Fiction" ], "pov": [ "varying perspectives of different groups of incarcerated Japanese Americans" ], "relatedevents": [], "availability": [ "Widely available" ], "freewebversion": [ "Yes" ], "primarysecondary": [], "hasteachingaids": [ "No" ], "warnings": [], "denshotopic": [ "Leaving camp-“Resettlement” [104]", "Resistance and dissidence-Support from the non-Japanese American community [80]" ], "geography": [], "chronology": [ "1943" ], "facility": [ "Topaz (Central Utah) [1] - Delta, Utah" ] }, "databox-Articles": { "author": [ "Toshio Mori" ], "title": [ "The Travelers" ], "pubname": [], "pubdate": [ "1943" ], "pubdetails": [], "doi": [], "website": [] } }, "rg_title": [ "The Travelers" ], "rg_creators": [ "Toshio Mori" ], "rg_pov": [ "varying perspectives of different groups of incarcerated Japanese Americans" ], "rg_freewebversion": [ "Yes" ], "rg_chronology": [ "1943" ], "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 Travelers;\nCreators:Toshio Mori;\nInterestLevel:Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Desire to escape; Optimism – power or folly; Power of silence;\nGenre:Fiction;\nPoV:varying perspectives of different groups of incarcerated Japanese Americans;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:Widely available;\nFreeWebVersion:Yes;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:Leaving camp-“Resettlement” [104]; Resistance and dissidence-Support from the non-Japanese American community [80];;\nGeography:;\nChronology:1943;\nFacility:Topaz (Central Utah) [1] - Delta, Utah;\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-Articles\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n Author:Toshio Mori;\nTitle:The Travelers;\nPubName:;\nPubDate:1943;\nPubDetails:;\nDOI:;\nWebsite:;\n </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n Short story by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Toshio_Mori\" title=\"Toshio Mori\">\n Toshio Mori\n </a>\n centering on two groups of inmates as they leave\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Topaz\" title=\"Topaz\">\n Topaz\n </a>\n . One group of nine are those leaving the camp permanently to \"\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Resettlement\" title=\"Resettlement\">\n resettle\n </a>\n \" in areas outside the restricted area of the West Coast; the other group consists of those who are visiting town briefly to shop or to see off relatives before returning to the camp. Those leaving for good includes a soldier leaving for the battlefront and being seen off by his mother, as well as those leaving for jobs in cities such as\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Resettlement_in_New_York\" title=\"Resettlement in New York\">\n New York\n </a>\n and\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Resettlement_in_Chicago\" title=\"Resettlement in Chicago\">\n Chicago\n </a>\n . As the resettlers exchange information about their destinations, the soldier is drawn to an attractive young woman heading to Chicago, but does not speak to her. After the train leaves, a white family offers a ride to town to the mother of the soldier. \"The Travelers\" originally appeared in the Topaz literary publication\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Trek_(newspaper)\" title=\"Trek (newspaper)\">\n All Aboard\n </a>\n </i>\n in 1944 and was republished in Mori's short story collections\n <i>\n The Chauvinist and Other Stories\n </i>\n in 1979 and\n <i>\n Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori\n </i>\n in 2000.\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/Topaz Mosaic (short story)/\" title=\"Topaz Mosaic (short story)\">\n Topaz Mosaic\n </a>\n \" by Toshio Mori; \"\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Nurse (short story)/\" title=\"Nurse (short story)\">\n Nurse\n </a>\n \" by Masaharu Hane; \"\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/The_Summer_of_%2743_(short_story)\" title=\"The Summer of '43 (short story)\">\n The Summer of '43\n </a>\n \" by Noboru Endow\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 Mori, Toshio. \"The Travelers.\"\n <i>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://ddr.densho.org/ddr/densho/142/428/mezzanine/8274a9d6d0/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n All Aboard\n </a>\n </i>\n , Spring 1944, 49–54. Reprinted in\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/chauvinistothers00mori\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n <i>\n The Chauvinist and Other Stories\n </i>\n </a>\n . Los Angeles: Asian American Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, 1979. 127–32;\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/unfinishedmessag00mori\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n <i>\n Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori\n </i>\n </a>\n . Santa Clara, Calif.: Santa Clara University, 2000. 117–25.\n </p>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230521153707\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.015 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.020 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 230/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 4962/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 1213/2097152 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% 7.659 1 -total\n 29.56% 2.264 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 17.74% 1.359 1 Template:Databox-Articles\n 17.40% 1.333 1 Template:Published\n 16.66% 1.276 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 16.37% 1.254 1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:3528-0!canonical and timestamp 20230521153707 and revision id 31244\n -->\n </div>\n</div>" }