Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Guy Gabaldon In gets into fight at school Depression-era Los Angeles, Fact2: Kaz 's parents speak little English, Fact3: Guy begins to learn Japanese, Fact4: Gabaldon 's foster family After is sent to internment camp attack on Pearl Harbor and US entry into World War II, Fact5: George is fighting in Italy
Output (English): In Depressionera Los Angeles, Guy Gabaldon gets into a fight at school when another boy snitches about his breaking into a grocery store. After JapaneseAmerican Kaz Uni the brother of Guys friend George finds out Guys mother is in the hospital and his father is dead, he invites Guy to stay with his family. As Kazs parents speak little English, Guy begins to learn Japanese. Then, when Guys mother dies, the Unis adopt him. He becomes especially close to Kazs mother. After the attack on Pearl Harbor and the US entry into World War II, Gabaldons foster family is sent to an internment camp: Camp Manzanar. Gabaldon is drafted, but fails his physical exam due to a perforated eardrum. When Gabaldon goes to visit the Unis, he learns that George has been allowed to join the Army and is fighting in Italy. After making sure that mamasan does not object, he manages to enlist in the Marines on the strength of his language skills. Gabaldon does not make a good first impression on SSgt. Bill Hazen at Camp Pendleton, but wins him over. When they are shipped to Hawaii to join the 2nd Marine Division, he gets himself, Hazen and Cpl. Pete Lewis bottles of whiskey and dates with two JapaneseAmerican women and standoffish reporter Sheila Lincoln. Sheila is disgusted by the behavior of the rowdy Marines, but eventually warms up to Gabaldon after a few drinks. Going ashore on Saipan, he freezes at first when he comes under fire for the first time, but regains his composure. During a Banzai charge, Lewis is killed, and later during the bloody campaign for the island, Hazen is shot in the leg and then killed by a Japanese swordsman. Gabaldon then gets mad and starts killing Japanese soldiers ruthlessly, but after he sees two civilians kill themselves, he remembers George and mamasan and changes back to the way he was. During the final battle, he convinces the Japanese general to order approximately 1000 Japanese soldiers and 500 civilians to surrender.