Brief Summary Of The Book 'Unbroken'

Unbroken Essay

Multiple groups of people were dehumanized during WW2. They had their ways of resisting and not giving up. There is multiple forms of evidence from Prisoners Of War and Japanese American internees that covers how POWs and Japanese American internees were dehumanized and made to feel invisible and how they resisted. POWs on all sides had their own ways of resisting, the main areas, America and Japan. These groups were dehumanized, but resisted and did not give up. One of the ways American POWs were dehumanized is how they were made to feel invisible. The text says, “They found the bodies of 150 POWs, starved to death.”(Hillenbrand 321) This text shows how Japanese treated American POWs in Japanese camps to break their spirit

Another way the POWs resisted was by creating minor sabotages and making small thefts against the Japanese soldiers.(chpt. 24, Hillenbrand. By doing this often the POWs showed resistance and that no matter what happens or the situation they are in, they will fight. American POWs have shown many more ways of staying while in camps and always kept fighting in every situation. During WW2 there were many ways Japanese American Internees in the United States were made to feel invisible. One way Japanese American internees felt invisible is from the act of them being locked away from the outside world in internment camps. (PBS, An Alien Place) During this time the Japanese American Internees had no communication to the outside world. They were trapped because of their ethnicity. Another way Japanese American internees were made to feel invisible is that they were forced to give up everything and were thrown into crude homes with strangers. (McMahon 2022) Japanese American internees got removed from their homes and left everything behind. They don't have anything now and are no different from others. A POW said in an interview, “My family name was reduced to NO. 13660.”(Okubo, Bartleby) This internee and their families names were reduced to a