“The Bracelet” Vs. “Home Was A Horse Stall” Lauren Anderson Imagine that you come home one day and you have to pack everything up and move to an unknown place and live there for who knows, a day, a week, a year, who knows how long. That is how the Japanese Americans felt when someone said you can only bring what you can carry. That would be scary. In the story “The Bracelet” By Yoshiko Uchida, a little girl named ,Ruri, and her family were sent to a Japanese concentration camp in California. In the book “Home Was A Horse Stall” By Jim Carnes, Sox and her family were also sent to an Japanese concentration camp in California. These texts are both dealing with the same setting and also the same symbolism. However the Characteristics are different. …show more content…
The setting is in a concentration camp in California. In “The Bracelet”, Ruri, a Japanese American and her family were heading to a World War to a concentration camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. “The United States and Japan were at war, and every Japanese person on the West Coast was being evacuated by the government to a concentration camp.” (Uchida) In “Home Was A Horse Stall”, Sox, a Japanese American and her family was also heading to a World War to a concentration camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. “On Sunday morning, December, 1941… A special bulletin on the radio announced that the Japanese had mounted a surprise attack on the United States Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ”(Carnes) Setting is not the only similarities both texts also share