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Dehumanization In The Life Of Mine Okubo

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Both Louie and Miné have been put in situations in their camps that made them feel invisible. One of the ways they were made invisible was through humiliation. “Everyday at gunpoint, Louie was forced to dance while his guards roared with laughter,” (Hillenbrand 140). Louie was being humiliated and forced to dance for the guards entertainment. Another way the characters in these stories were made invisible was through dehumanization. Dehumanization shows prisoners that they don’t matter to their captors. They don’t care if you live, die, or get extremely sick. “For the rest of their time in the internment camps, Miné and Toku were referred to by this number, not by their names,” (The Life of Miné Okubo 4). The internees weren’t treated as people,
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