The Role Of Japanese-Americans In Julie Otsuka's When The Emperor Was Divine

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In “When the Emperor was Divine”, by Julie Otsuka, the story describes at one point how Japanese-Americans were treated unfairly and harshly in many ways by the people who ran the camp. To begin with, numerous Japanese-Americans were forced to be sent into these deserted and dusty camps where they need to follow certain rules and guidelines. The rules mainly stated what Japanese-Americans weren’t allowed to do, like for example they couldn’t read books that were in Japanese nor could they have any second helping of food either. Secondly, the camp felt really unnerving and uneasy since there were guards guarding the fence making access to the outside world an impossible task to do. A man, even tried to escape once from the camp and since there’s
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Philip Holland Dr. Aigbedion Third Form English May 29, 2024 Tone as a Window Into Experience Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine chronicles the experience of a nameless Japanese-American family as they are abruptly uprooted from their comfortable life on the west coast and sent to an internment camp in the desert. This ordeal forces upon them a very different existence; they lose all form of control over their lives in the miserable camp where, treated like prisoners, the mood of the novel…

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