Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Lily Kawamura tells Mini about father and life, Fact2: McGurn 's boss urges him to leave area, Fact3: Jack 's role as sweatshop lawyer strains already-rocky relationship with Gerry, Fact4: Jack finds job as projectionist in movie theater run by Japanese American family by name of Kawamura, Fact5: Lily and daughter are caught up in Japanese American internment
Output (English): In the early 1950s, Lily Kawamura tells her preadolescent daughter Mini about her father and the life that she barely remembers, as the two of them are walking to a rural train station. In 1936, Jack McGurn is a motion picture projectionist, involved in a campaign of harassment against nonunion theaters in New York City. One such attack turns fatal, as one of his fellow union members starts a fire. McGurns boss, knowing that the feelings of guilt would likely cause Jack to go to the police, urges him to leave the area. Jack moves to Los Angeles where his brother Gerry lives. Jacks role as a sweatshop lawyer strains an alreadyrocky relationship with Gerry who is willing to have any job, barely keeping his family afloat during the Great Depression. Taking the name McGann, Jack finds a job as a projectionist ironically, nonunion in a movie theater run by a Japanese American family by the name of Kawamura. He falls in love with Lily, his boss daughter. Forbidden to see one another by her Issei parents and banned from marrying by California law, the couple elopes to Seattle, where they marry and have a daughter, Mini. When World War II breaks out, Lily and their daughter are caught up in the Japanese American internment, rounded up and sent to Manzanar, California. Jack, away on a trip, is drafted into the United States Army with no chance to help his family prepare for their imprisonment. Finally visiting the camp, he arranges a private meeting with his wifes father, telling him that he has gone AWOL and wants to stay with them, whatever they have to go through. They are his family now and he belongs with them. The older man counsels him to return to the Army, and says that he now believes that Jack is truly in love with Lily, and a worthy husband. Returning, ready to face his punishment for desertion, he is met by FBI agents, who have identified McGann as being the McGurn wanted for his part in the arson of years before. Finally, in the 1950s, the train arrives and Lily and Mini reunite with Jack, who has served his time in prison and is now returning to his family.