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Imagine being suddenly uprooted from the comfort of your own home,only to be met with an inhabitable environment you must now live.How would you feel? I would feel angry and upset, and I’m pretty sure you would too.Yoshiko Uchida, author of Desert Exile gives us a glance into her childhood during a period of strife between the United States and Japan,consequently she would be forced into a camp with her Japanese-American family.This essay will examine the literary elements Yoshiko Uchida used in creating Desert Exile.
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The setting takes place in the year 1942 at an assembly camp at Tanforan near San Francisco. The former racetrack housed 8,000 Japanese-Americans during the war between America and Japan.Uchida and her family would share a stall,as she described,”The stall was about ten by twenty feet and empty except for three folded Army cots lying on the floor. Dust, dirt, and wood shavings covered the linoleum that had been laid over manure-covered boards, the smell of horses hung in the air.”Based off of the imagery given living conditions are poor it seems very cold and unwelcoming. …show more content…
Also Uchida expresses that “The dining hall was depressing.”Meaning that it was overcrowded,unsanitary, and overall the food being served was a disgrace.Due to this most of the inhabitant's faces reeked in anguish,which was unsettling to Uchida. In addition Uchida talks about life on the camp,and how it appeared to be as if “Every man was for themselves.”when it came to getting access to amenities such as, a hot shower and even toilet paper.As a result Uchida and her family would have to
Imagine being suddenly uprooted from the comfort of your own home,only to be met with an inhabitable environment you must now live.How would you feel? I would feel angry and upset, and I’m pretty sure you would too.Yoshiko Uchida, author of Desert Exile gives us a glance into her childhood during a period of strife between the United States and Japan,consequently she would be forced into a camp with her Japanese-American family.This essay will examine the literary elements Yoshiko Uchida used in creating Desert Exile.
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The setting takes place in the year 1942 at an assembly camp at Tanforan near San Francisco. The former racetrack housed 8,000 Japanese-Americans during the war between America and Japan.Uchida and her family would share a stall,as she described,”The stall was about ten by twenty feet and empty except for three folded Army cots lying on the floor. Dust, dirt, and wood shavings covered the linoleum that had been laid over manure-covered boards, the smell of horses hung in the air.”Based off of the imagery given living conditions are poor it seems very cold and unwelcoming. …show more content…
Also Uchida expresses that “The dining hall was depressing.”Meaning that it was overcrowded,unsanitary, and overall the food being served was a disgrace.Due to this most of the inhabitant's faces reeked in anguish,which was unsettling to Uchida. In addition Uchida talks about life on the camp,and how it appeared to be as if “Every man was for themselves.”when it came to getting access to amenities such as, a hot shower and even toilet paper.As a result Uchida and her family would have to