The Bracelet By Yoshiko Uchida

¨The Bracelet¨ by Yoshiko Uchida is about a Japanese girl named Ruri. Ruri and her family were Japanese/American families during World War 2. Ruri is sent to a relocation center and they are forced to move out of their home because she is Japanese and the U.S. Government is at war with the Japanese and they think all Japanese people could be spies. Her friend Laurie gives Ruri a bracelet as a birthday present when she leaves to move. After she moves to the relocation center Ruri finds out she had lost the bracelet and gets upset. Even after the events of the story she still remembers it. These actions teach people to accept loss and remember the good things in life. Also to not judge others on things they cannot control.

In the beginning of the story, Ruri is at her house just being a child and hanging out with her family when a messenger comes or so she thought but it was a person from the government telling her and her family that they had to move to a relocation center as they could be Japanese spies and because of the war they had to be

She starts to have a panic attack and gets very upset and sad when she loses the bracelet.¨The consequence for Ruri being Japanese was being sent to an internment camp simply for being of Japanese descent. Laurie's consequence was being left behind while her best friend leave simply because she was not of Japanese descent.¨(page 25). This quote shows that because Ruri is Japanese she has to be relocated and because of this she loses her bracelet Laurie gave her as an early birthday present because she loses the bracelet she gets upset and gets very sad. But when she is talking to her mother her mother tells her that she can always hold her friends, family, and special objects in her heart and those items will always be there for her. This insists that to love people or something sometimes you have to let go of special things and hold on to what you have in