Ship of dolls Author is Shirley Parenteau, this is a true story of the 1926 exchange of Friendship between the United States and Japan before World War II, the project was begun by Dr. Sidney Gulick that he urged American children sent over twelve thousand dolls to Japan. Lexie is heroine, she is eleven years old, her mother sent her to live with her grandparents in Portland, because her mother has remarried and is working in a nightclub, her lifestyle is unsuitable for raising children. Lexie like all the girls love dolls and sympathetic. The little girl did not resist dolls, doll can make two of the innocence of children become friends, can solve the contradiction between two people, so she is glorious. The ship has been a symbol of
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Lexie hopes to win the game to trip to San Francisco to find her mother. Then she wrote a letter to her mother to let her know that she has missed her, her friend Jack has been helping her, that is a true friend to her. But in the realization of the aspirations of the road will always encounter difficulties, her classmate Louise also want win the game, she steals Lexie’s letter and passes it off as her own, winning the contest. Lexie very sad, at this time the grandmother seems to understand the emotion of Lexie. Lexie’s grandmother decides that Lexie should go to San Francisco as well, then she take tickets for herself and Lexie to ride aboard the same ship to San Francisco to visit with Lexie’s mother. Lexie want stay with her mother forever, but she don’t know her mother has other plans without her. Finally, she chose to live with her grandmother, that is right choice, even she still misses her mother.
Not to mean a greeting, not to shy a hug, cherish this extraordinary and noble affection, maybe that is Lexie's hopes, also is everyone want. And it is a great history introduction without it ever feeling like a history lesson and make learned a little something about American and Japanese history. Despite the best efforts of the children in the 1920s, more than twelve thousand dolls were collected and sent to Japan, the dolls were meant to help American and Japanese children
Lexie hopes to win the game to trip to San Francisco to find her mother. Then she wrote a letter to her mother to let her know that she has missed her, her friend Jack has been helping her, that is a true friend to her. But in the realization of the aspirations of the road will always encounter difficulties, her classmate Louise also want win the game, she steals Lexie’s letter and passes it off as her own, winning the contest. Lexie very sad, at this time the grandmother seems to understand the emotion of Lexie. Lexie’s grandmother decides that Lexie should go to San Francisco as well, then she take tickets for herself and Lexie to ride aboard the same ship to San Francisco to visit with Lexie’s mother. Lexie want stay with her mother forever, but she don’t know her mother has other plans without her. Finally, she chose to live with her grandmother, that is right choice, even she still misses her mother.
Not to mean a greeting, not to shy a hug, cherish this extraordinary and noble affection, maybe that is Lexie's hopes, also is everyone want. And it is a great history introduction without it ever feeling like a history lesson and make learned a little something about American and Japanese history. Despite the best efforts of the children in the 1920s, more than twelve thousand dolls were collected and sent to Japan, the dolls were meant to help American and Japanese children