Japanese Internment In Yoshiko Uchida's 'Bracelet'

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The Bracelet and Executive Order 9066 Essay
By: Besufikad Teshome

“The Bracelet” by Yoshiko Uchida and “Executive Order 9066” were about the United States moving the people of Japanese ancestry that lived in a certain had to evacuate to live in Japanese internment camps.
”The Bracelet” was about a young girl named Ruri having to evacuate with her family to an internment camp.Her father was arrested because he had worked for a Japanese business firm.She got a present from her best friend named Laurie Madison,who came to say goodbye. And after that was the process of going to the internment camps also her losing the bracelet she was given but showing that she did not need it to remember Laurie. “Executive Order 9066” was about the information

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