The answer to the question above is "his friendship with the girl with a different race than him" which Okita revealed in the excerpt above. This significant detail is clearly shown in the last part of the excerpt which described Okita's and the girl's last name. This poem is written by Dwight Okita, a Japanese-American playwright, novelist, and poet.
sometimes giving people a second chance gives them the opportunity to make up for the mistake they made and fix themselves as a person or just self reflect.
