How Did Dane Zamperini Dehumanized

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Louie Zamperini was a world known olympian and he was captured by the Japanese and tortured. Louie zamperini was captured and put in an POW camp. He was dehumanized and was treated to make him feel no self worth. But he was resilient and fought and survived 2 years in the camps. Mine was a japanese-american and put in an internment camp and was moved to camps and lived in horse stalls. She documented everyday by her drawings and drew everyday in her camps. Even though they were made to feel invisible there showed resilience and survived made others feel like they did wrong. This shows me that in bad times you can still get through it. In WWII, Mine, a japanese-american and Louie, a prisoner of war were put into camps to make them feel invisible …show more content…

This paragraph Louie lays in his cell and did nothing and but the guard still beat him and just was being rude making him feel attacked and afraid and alone. “One day louie and phil looked up to see angry faces pressed into their cell windows, shouting. Rocks flew in. more men came, screaming,spitting on the captives hurling sticks. Louie balled up on the floor. On and on it went, some nitey men taking turns attacking the captives . at last it ended. Louie lay in pools of spit and jumbled rocks and sticks,bleeding. This is evidence of dehumanization because the guards throw rock and stick. They spit on him yell at him. They deprive him of food,water and necessity to …show more content…

“Rations were meager and of terrible quality and nutritive value.About once a week a wheelbarrow full of ‘meat’. Spread over 900 men servings were thimble-sized,consisting of horse intestines and dog meat.this lead to some people swallowing lumps of coal to slow the digestive system. Many of them weighed 90 pounds." The POWs and Louie were deprived of food and water and were worked and people who didn't work only got half rations of food. To conclude, Mine is showing resilience by documenting and drawing all of the pictures when she was not supposed to she still did to show how the people treated her in the camp because no one would believe her this shows how her passion saved her from feeling invisible. “Determined to document every day she spent behind barbed wire.carrying her sketch pad throughout camp, she carefully recorded all she saw and experience” She is drawing all of her experiences at camp and this shows resilience because there is a rule of no cameras but there isn't one about