Jeanne can be a bit ignorant at some points in the book. When Jeanne was ten, she wanted to be an odori dancer. She asked the two girls that stayed in the class how she could do so, “I did this too, on the sly, until Mama asked me why socks were always inside out, and why I was wearing nothing underneath my dress.” (111). She thought the girls were being truthful to her until Mama had to tell her they were not. When Jeanne and her mom went to the bathroom they overheard two women whispering about Papa. “They kept using the word ‘inu’. I knew it meant ‘dog’... Years later I learned that inu also meant collaborator or informer.” (66,67). When Jeanne first heard the word inu she thought that the two girls were using it in the context of dog, but