Thomas

//The Invisible Thread //

** Summary **   In the early 1900’s, Yoshiko Uchida, a young Japanese girl, grows up in a small house in California with her sister, mother, and father. She enjoys the comforts of playing with her older sister and seeing her grandparents on holidays. It’s like she was any other, average American. That is, until war comes. When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, the members of the Uchida family, along with all of the other people who looked Japanese, were forced out of their homes and sent to concentration camps all because they “looked like the enemy”. A spot for each family to stay in the concentration camps consisted of a single room in the middle of a barrack with hardly enough room for 4 people to live. There was a thin wall dividing each room that didn't even reach the ceiling meaning that there was little privacy. These concentration camps the Uchida family were forced to go to made them absolutely miserable because of filthy latrines, a lack for water to do laundry, raging dust storms, sickness, and other unwanted problems, but Yoshi and her family remain some of the strongest people in the camp because they stick together as one and survive the camps with a strong hope and will for when all of it will all soon end. The Uchidas continue to suffer until years later, they are let out to go home. That is when Yoshi and her sister decide to get a move on with college and get jobs so they can finally get back together as happy as before, except this time, they can act for themselves. 

One of the main themes of my novel is that no matter who you are or what you look like, you are able to act like anybody else. My novel's main character, the one who also wrote this novel, is a Japanese girl who deep down inside is a true American even though she eats Japanese food and participates in Japanese cultures. Her mother and father prefer that she’d learn the language of Japanese, but Yoshi doesn't care much for that type of thing. Instead, she is more like her American friends, playing what they play and enjoying much that they enjoy. Overall, the main theme that the author is trying to get across to the reader is that even though you may be American, Japanese, or part of some other ethnic group, you are free to act like and do whatever your heart truly tells you.   I despise the fact that Yoshiko’s family was sent to a sick, dusty, unfinished, and as filthy as a pigpen concentration camp because “they look like the enemy”, because after all, that is the //only //  reason for why the government did such a thing. The Uchida's didn't do anything wrong and shouln't have to suffer for it. Other than the way they look, the Uchida’s are peace- loving Americans who go to school just like you and me and participate in a few Japanese cultures.  But beside the fact that America was wrong to do such a thing to the Uchida’s, however, I salute the fact that the Uchidas stood up and were willing to face the hardships in the concentration camps together. They were linked together to each other as one, firm chain. This is what I think all true families should be like.
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