Remembering The No-No Boys Poem Analysis

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Have you ever felt that people judge you based on your looks or have you gone through things you thought were harsh to you at the moment ? When in reality you do not exactly know what harsh is unless you were a Japanese during WWII. Take a look, more of a consideration the way the U.S. made the japanese ethnicity/ancestry feel. For a while we have been reading many articles about what happened in the internments and how japanese felt and many of them have themes that they share. The texts Farewell to Manzanar, “Why Children Did Not Knock At My Door Halloween This Year”, and “ Remembering The No-No Boys” reveal the following recurring themes on discrimination, separation of families , and prejudice. Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki …show more content…
Something us readers could learn from either the articles, poems, or book is that judging people by their looks or ethnicity , we would think they too are criminals just because someone either the same features or ethnicity committed a crime. We should all learn to treat everybody the same because of our judgements, we could be hurting them. The themes discrimination, separation of families, prejudice still happen today. Many colored people get discriminated either by whites or police. Next, is the separation of families because of all the killing police are doing. They take away multiple innocent lives from families. More and more loved ones are being taken away by gun violence but it affects the colored people the most. Then, prejudice happens commonly by policed today, they assume someone who is colored is doing a crime or they just seem suspicious, and get stopped. Afterward, if they feel threatened without the suspect having anything harmful, they still end up shooting them and most of them don't survive. Much of what happened to the japanese still happens today but mostly with the colored

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