They Called Us Enemy By George Takei

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.

This paragraph talks about the bombing in Pearl Harbor. The bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan

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

As noted in the novel, George Takei writes, “-That Little Jap Boy-” (171), “That Painful Word Tore Open A Wound Filled With Shame” (171). These quotes tell that George is ashamed of being a Japanese-American at that moment. The guilt of being locked up in an internment camp in the past made George feel like he deserves to be called that word by his teacher. George thought that her teacher calling him like that had something to do with their time in camp. George even had an unsettling feeling whenever he said the U.S. National Anthem. George’s inner conflict is being called a Japanese boy. As a teenager, George’s inner conflict made him become more curious about internment camps. All the Japanese-Americans in the internment camps were treated badly and were called on curse words. George then learns why they were treated like this and was angry that he could not do anything about it when he was a