Internments

When the Emperor Was Divine is a novel written by Julie Otsuka. The story was set in the period of World War II when Japanese-Americans were put into internment camps as they were believed to be a threat to the United States because of their possible connections with the country of Japan. The novel follows a Japanese family and their whole journey throughout this period. The story was told in the third person for the majority of the novel and often interrupted by several flashbacks. The novel is…

through. The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida, is about what a young Japanese American girl had to go through after Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese. It shows how her life was when she had to leave her home and be taken along with her family to an internment camp. Although both John Hersey and Yoshiko Uchida use compelling personal stories…

A Radical’s Radical Plan to Eliminate Radicals When I was younger, I remember many days where I came home from school and asked my dad “Why do we have to learn history. It’s not like it's going to help me at all when I’m a grownup.” I could understand why we would need to learn subjects like English or math, and their applications in the “real world”, but I was always stumped on history. Puzzling me, he would respond every time by saying “those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it…

was not greeted by family when born like Forgiveness or Jade Snow were. This is because they (Katie’s nuclear family) were given a week-notice that they must move into the Internment camp, before Katie was born and before their lives were altered forever. Like George Takei, a Japanese man who also was forced into the internment camp, pronounces: “We had nothing to do with the war. We simply happened to look like the people that bombed Pearl Harbor.” Katie’s family had much resentment at…

Isolation and Identity in Citizen 13660 Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660 provides an autobiographical account of the author’s time in Japanese internment camps during World War II. The graphic novel style that couples text with illustrations presents a visual narration of the life of the subjected Japanese citizens during the time. In her narrative, Miné makes a point of establishing herself both visually and textually as an outsider to the Japanese, preferring to self-identify with being an artist…

together. Henry’s father is a Chinese nationalist, and because of World War II being fought in the story’s timeframe, he completely rejects any Japanese person, let alone a Japanese person with his only son. On the other hand, Keiko is forced into an internment camp because of her Japanese nationality, and this prevents Henry and Keiko from even beginning to have a relationship. Due to these circumstances, Henry is forced to make a number of decisions between what is right and what is best, that…

students wouldn't necessarily know much about on their own, such as internment camp. This word and the conditions of these camps had to be taught before students could make and evaluation on FDR's decision to intern Japanese Americans. In order to achieve the learning goal and carry out the assessment, the students had to know that vocabulary word, and this is evident through the student work samples. Without knowledge of internment camps, the students wouldn't be able to achieve the learning…

Girl, this young girl that came from a Jewish family who inspired many people to never give up in times of crisis; hiding away from the Nazis in Amsterdam. Another true story comes from letters of Japanese American children in the United States’ internment camps during World War II. Some of these children’s letters were gathered and put in the book, Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese Americans Incarcerated During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference, Louise Owaga writes…

An analysis of contrasting approaches to topics of the Japanese Canadian Internment camps The Japanese internment camps reflect a dark time in Canadian history, where mass fear and racial hatred led to a tragic violation of human rights and liberties. Two articles, “Passing Time, Moving Memories: Interpreting Wartime Narratives of Japanese Canadian Women” by Pamela Sugiman and “British Columbia and the Japanese Evacuation” By Peter Ward, take on contrasting approaches to this issue, with the…

Judgement Immigration in the United States Over the history of time human beings have had different opinions on where they would like to live. Some may stay in one place while others choose to leave and live somewhere else. For the ones that move it could be an hour away to the next city of a different country altogether, but it isn’t always out of choice, war or other events can force people to move too. Those people who move between countries are called immigrants. Lately there has…