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They Called Us Enemy By George Takei

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They called us enemy literary analysis
Society influences a man and makes them look at the world differently. Racism and war has reformed and reshaped our human society. They might be good and/or bad. War and Racism causes many problems including politicians who cannot solve their problems peacefully. War causes innocent people in danger or under security. In They called us Enemy written by George Takei, the protagonist, George faces many problems such as Racism and war from the Americans. George Takei has changed throughout the novel, because of the fight with his father, the inner conflict within George, and the influence of him becoming an actor.
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George had very adventurous, joyful, sharp, powerful, and sweet memories in his childhood. He never thought it was abnormal to travel in a train with armed guards or sleep within a horse stall. Years later, These memories changed. Hunter, Sarah writes,“As he grows older and they’re relocated to a camp with harsher conditions, it seems less like an adventure and more like the atrocity it truly is” (⅕). This explains that the new relocated camps had no privacy and had to sleep in smaller rooms than before. George was very disturbed by these changes and suffered a lot. George’s discussion with his father made George angry, because his father did not talk back against the Americans and comply with something that was fundamentally …show more content…

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