Response To Order 9056 By Dwight Okita

The American 1940s, compared to now, was a completely different society. This was the time where millions and immigrants were arriving in the U.S. to start completely different lives. This was the time when the U.S. was now entering WW2, deciding the fate of many other races. This was the time when civil rights movements haven’t picked up and segregation was a common practice. The two pieces of literature that gave us a window into America during the 1940s are Response to Order 9066 and the Americans. Although how they write have many similarities and differences, they will show how immigrant children dealt with American ideas during this time.

Response to Order 9066 is written in a poem format. It follows the writer (a 14-year-old Japanese American girl named Dwight Okita) during the Japanese incarceration where many Japanese Americans were detained, suspected to be spies. Throughout the poem, Okita uses direct to get the

The conflict between American and Mexican culture. This short story follows Sandra as a little girl and the confusion between being a Mexican and an American. The Grandmother throughout the story starts and maintains the conflict for Sandra on whether she is a Mexican or American. Throughout the story, Sandra uses imaginary techniques to describe how she spends her time and why she feels American. For example, her and her brother, Junior, would play superheroes to emphasize as an American activity compared to how she feels like in a Mexican Church, describing how it smells and dark. She feels a negative connotation on her Mexican culture while describing every American activity as interesting and fun, to further emphasize her conflict. At the end of Mericans, he describes an encounter with Junior and a white woman who is trying to take a picture of him. After Junior talked in English, the woman was surprised that he was able to talk. Junior then called himself a Merican, showing the divide between the two