Julie Otsuka's When The Emperor War Divine

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Humanity as a whole has grown together as one. National competitions such as the space race or even the Olympics show our desire to win. Human curiosity pushes us forward in technology. Not all human traits can be seen a morally right such as our demand to capture it all. On December 7,1941 Japan decided that they wanted to try to capture Southern Asia with no ease, so the bombing on Pearl Harbor was crucial to keep the US from blocking Japan. Subsequently Japaneses American citizens were forced to relocate from the west coast to internment camps. The society back then did very little to nothing to protest the government's decision to do this, but today we live in a different world where most people will speak their minds.

People have been cursed with categorizing others into certain groups just by race. Some people still think that most Muslims are terrorist, but at the time of Pearl Harbor most saw moving all the Japanese Americans away as a good thing. The time of the Japanese internment, there were no real riots. “But some were troubled by the removal of their friends and neighbors.”(WETA) The population of America has gained 185 million people since 1941, which means more people to …show more content…
Near the end of the story the family comes back home and finds their home to be a disaster. With the money the government gave them, a whole twenty five dollars, “which is the same amount they gave criminals after releasing them”(Otsuka pg 118), the family buys a mattress. The night after someone throws whisky though a window destroying the mattress. The government still say the Japanese Americans as criminals and the society which the family lived in was discriminated. If the Japanese ever bombed America again the people who disrespected them the first time would replicate their emotion, but with more
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This is a book report about the novel When the Emperor Was Divine written by Julie Otsuka. When the Emperor Was Divine is a short novel about a Japanese-American family that goes to the internment camps during World War Two. It is told from a mostly omniscient point of view and provides a descriptive narrative on the lives of the nameless mother, son, daughter, and father. The namelessness of the characters provides a lot to the novel. Despite the family's citizenship, they are still nobody to the…

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