told what to eat, where to live, and when to sleep. Essentially all the families in the internment camps lost their freedom, but miraculously some exceptionally strong Japanese interns were able to hold onto their sense free will. The little boy’s small, secret act of defiance parallels how some of these Japanese interns maintained their free will and spirit.
In this section, the little boy is characterized as very unassuming and compliant. Otsuka describes him as, “[wearing] a blue baseball cap…
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