Mine Okubo Analysis

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During World War II was going on hundreds of thousands of people's lives changed.The Japanese- Americans interned and the americans POWs felt “ invisible” but also tired to resist that feeling. Louie was a troublemaker when he was younger. His brother Peter helped him and he made him into an American Olympic runner. He stop running because he had to help his country fight war against Japan. And that’s when Louie life changed completely. Mine was born in the United States, but she was an Japanese- American. She wanted to go to the University of California in Berkeley but she knew her parents couldn't pay for it, so she got a scholarship. She had a great life until World War II was going on all the Japanese had to go to camps. The …show more content…
Louie spent hours in prayer, begging God to save him, and lost himself in fantasies of running in the Olympics.” ( Hillenbrand 186) The post person that beaten up and hurt badly was Louie Z. The bird knew he was famous because Louie was an Olympic runner in the United States. The bird would beat him every day. Everyone felt bad for Louie cause he has been in so much pain. Louie knew that he would never run again even if he wanted he wouldn’t. He wouldn’t have the strength too. Another example is from the article “ The life of Mine Okubo”. She was feeling insble when she got sent to a camp, and she got sent to a camp for Japanese and American -Japanese. “We were close to freedom and yet far from it . . . streams of cars passed by all day. Guard towers and barbed wire surrounded the entire center. Guards were on duty day and night.” ( The Life of Mine Okubo) When Mine was sent to the camp she couldn't do the things she liked to do. She had to but her camera and other supplies she had away and couldn't use them at all. She and other japanese wanted to get out of the camps and go back to there normal life but they couldn't because World War II was going on. Presented Adolf Hitler sent all Japanese to camps because he thought they …show more content…
“Louie could take no more. He joined about a dozen officers in a secret meeting. They decided to kill the Bird.” ( hillenbrand 215) All the people that were captured in the camps in Japan were tired and sick of it. They just wanted to go home and leave the bad place they are right now. That when louis discied that he wan to make an end to this and kill the bird. He and other Captives made a plan of how they were. Another example is the life of Mine when was trying to do and get something of how people were treated and how it waS in the camps.“Internees were not allowed to have cameras, but Mine wanted to document what was happening inside the camps.” Mine wanted her camera back so she could take pictures of what was going on in the amps but they told her she had to give them all hers stuff and she couldn't have anything unless it was ask for them to bring. So instead Mine sketches about was going on and people not being called by their names instead the Japanese were called by numbers. There was a lot of Japanese that had the same last name so they put tags on them. In conclusion both Japanese and Americans wanted life to go the back it was before the World War II had started. Both Japanese and Americans thought both of us were bad

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