Noda is a Japanese-American. Therefore, she does not fall into neither white, nor black category. Her comprehension is affected by society's stereotypes of people. The confusion that Noda faces is about her definition of identity. She has left between the choice of society, such as media and people and her own understanding of Japanese identity in which how wrongfully it has been depicted in media.
Authors use characters to show the theme. The story is the outgrowth of the theme. If an author wants to write about love lasting forever, he may write a love story with two people who realize that they are going to die and find the fountain of youth, or something like that.
People were very mad at their current government so they turned to extremist politics for an answer to their problems, hence, the Nazi Party.
A microorganism, especially a bacterium causing disease or fermentation.