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