A Stolen Youth Summary

The articles, “Their Best Way to Show Loyalty,” and “A Stolen Youth,” are about people getting evacuated by the Japanese army. Both articles have different points of views. For example, “The Best Way to Show Loyalty,” is an editorial published in 1943, so the main focus of this article is about how the Japanese were evacuated from their homes to temporary houses. Their internment was given by the government, they helped protect their properties, but their food and shelter will be given to them by the Federal Government. In my opinion, the internment in this article didn’t seem that bad due to having food and shelter with good conditions, others had it worse like in “A Stolen Youth,” with not having sanitary conditions. Most Japanese fled quickly because they would stay there until the war was over.

The other article is a newspaper article by The San Francisco News, published on April 20, 1997. “A Stolen Youth” is about the stories of high school students getting taken from school and forced to into concentration camps in 1942 and returning fifty-five

In the editorial article, the government protected their homes and gave them food, but in the newspaper article, they sold their belongings and were given straw to fill in their beddings. Both articles explain how people were taken out of their homes without a choice and forced into concentration camps. More than 120,000 people were out of their homes by the U.S Government, and relocated to internment camps surrounded by barbed wire, and armed guards. Each article explains what it was like being forced to the camps and how they were treated. They were sent to the camps because Japanese Americans were considered a threat to security, so the best way to be protected was to put innocent people in concentration camps away from them. This is not the way people should be treated and forced somewhere they don’t want to be