A lot of the time people just think about themselves when going through hardships, not realizing that everybody has their own struggles. Although the family was removed from their American Dream into the internment camps, they still had stuff to look at. Even though the internment camp living conditions aren’t the best, they still have a place to sleep, food to consume, and even a free education, which some countries do not provide. “A dust storm would blow for hours”, “then a baby would begin to cry, or a dog would start barking” (Otsuka 77). But the thing is, everyone that is in the camp all have to go through the same struggles. When they finally arrive back home after the war, they realize it’s trash and that it smells bad. The house did not look anything like it did when they left, they even had new neighbors after all the time they’d been gone. They returned home to “Broken bottles were scattered across the yard”, “where our mother’s rosebush once stood there was only a clump of dead weeds” (Otsuka 106). The whole time they were gone, everything seemed to
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