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Based on the main character’s descriptions, he was remarkably a special person. The main character in House Of The Red Fish is named Tomi-kun. He was special in Honolulu and was also ordinary in Honolulu. He has countless friends, but along with some enemies throughout this story. The first ordinary part of Tomi-kun was that he is a ninth-grade student at Roosevelt High School. According to House Of The Red Fish, in page 6 it states, “My best friend Billy Davis and I had just finished another slow day at school, both of us now in ninth grade.” The evidence of Tomi being in Roosevelt High School was on page 31 says, “The whole way to Roosevelt High School Mrs. Davis slept.” Another ordinary or usual description about Tomi is he is a man. In the page, …show more content…

Then they arrested my Grampa Joji and took him away to who knew where. Just because he was a Japanese citizen.” The evidence shows Grandpa and father was arrested. The evidence also displays a slight description about Tomi which is he is Japanese by since Grandpa and Pa is part of Tomi’s family, they must have the same bloodline of being Japanese. With Tomi being Japanese, it leads him to have some enemies. The main enemy of his is named Keet Wilson. The evidence of Keet being enemies with Tomi-kun is on page 17, “We used to be friends, me and him. But around the beginning of sixth grade that easy world caved in and I quickly turned into his worst enemy. Keet Wilson has been told by his friends at school that white guys weren’t supposed to like Japanese guys, so what was he doing hanging around with me?” It also shows another evidence that Tomi is Japanese since Keet Wilson is white and was to told not to hang around with Japanese. So Keet stops hanging out with Tomi and instead turn into enemies with

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However he was arrested on May 30,1942 when he was recognized as a “jap” (“ Fred Korematsu”). Therefore, Fred Korematsu was taken into the internment camps where he asked the military “I would like to see the government admit that they were wrong and do something about it so this will never happen again to any american citizen of any race, creed or color”(Supreme Court). As a result the court case was started to prevent any other races from being treated badly as well as to see if it was justified for the government to bring out this order. In doing so, Korematsu group of lawyers during the case stated “Korematsu was born on our soil, of parents born in Japan. The Constitution makes him a citizen of the United States by nativity and a citizen of California by 243*243 residence”(Google Scholar).

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More specifically, they did not understand why due to their innocence. This not understanding represents the naiveté, otherwise known as the lack of wisdom that the Japanese-Americans possessed in regards to their situation. When one is naïve in a situation where they are being perceived as the enemy when they are not, their innocence becomes even more evident. In Park’s interview, Otsuka states, “At the far end of this process [internment], the members of this family lose their roles: they are all reduced to the single role of the enemy”

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“The truth was, at this point Papa did not know which way to turn. In the government 's eyes a free man now, he sat, like those black slaves you hear about who, when they got word of their freedom at the end of the Civil War, just did not know where else to go or what else to do and ended up back on the plantation, rooted there out of habit or lethargy or fear” (Farewell to Manzanar, ----). Papa was just one victim of injustice. After the Japanese dropped a bomb on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1947, all Japanese Americans were relocated to internment camps. President Roosevelt signed executive order 9066, ordering that all people of Japanese ethnicity because the government viewed them as a threat to national security.

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Even though some people lived in America for several years, such as Jeanne’s father who lived there for thirty five years with some jobs, he was prevented from being an Americanized citizen and was looked at as the enemy with no rights of his own (Houston, p. 7). Being interrogated by the FBI and having no governmental ties to Japan’s Emperor, he was split from his family for two years. Her father had no rights, no home, no control over his own life due to the Americans. During the investigation, five hundred Japanese families who lived on Terminal Island were searched by FBI deputies who questioned everyone and ransacked houses for anything that could be used to show loyalty to the Japanese Emperor (Houston, p. 7). In their own homes, their treatment was equivalent to being a criminal as everything was looked at with suspicion as the sense of an equal human being was slowly taken away.

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