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Drops of Water (short story)
- Short Stories
- Grades 9-12, Adult
- Capitalism – effect on the individual, Immigrant experience, Individual versus society, Working class struggles
- Widely available
Short story by Ferris Takahashi. A presumably young Sansei social worker and a colleague discuss the case of an elderly Issei homeless man who seems to want to remain homeless. Sections written from the perspective of the Issei man reveal his life as a laborer first on Hawai'i sugar plantations , then in the continental U.S. and the impact of his wartime incarceration and the razing of the residential hotel he once lived in.