Another color that Otsuka uses throughout her book is black, which is commonly used in Japanese culture to symbolize mystery, desolation, and in some cases, destruction. She often mentions the color black to describe the barracks in the internment camps, symbolizing that these camps are unwanted and therefore are isolated away from American society. The trip to the internment camps was humiliating, long, and exhausting for the Japanese. During the first night of internment, the boy looks outside of the window and observes “the endless rows of black barracks all lined up in the sand. In the distance, [there was] a wide empty field where nothing but sagebrush grew, [and] then the fence and the high wooden towers” (51).…