We're reading Farewell to Manzanar, a story told in the first-person perspective about life in Manzanar, a 1940s Japanese internment camp in California..
In order to get perspective for that, let's imagine that we're trading places with her. Instead of it being the 1940s however, it's today.
Imagined scenario: a small faction of extremists from the middle east have decided to attack Americans on U.S. soil, starting a complex domino effect that leads to WWIII. The U.S. government decides that it's safer if all people of Middle Eastern descent, whether American or not, must be concentrated into camps in order to ensure their own safety and set other Americans' minds at ease.
In order to get perspective for that, let's imagine that we're trading places with her. Instead of it being the 1940s however, it's today.
Imagined scenario: a small faction of extremists from the middle east have decided to attack Americans on U.S. soil, starting a complex domino effect that leads to WWIII. The U.S. government decides that it's safer if all people of Middle Eastern descent, whether American or not, must be concentrated into camps in order to ensure their own safety and set other Americans' minds at ease.
Today you get the news that you're being shipped off to a camp in Tennessee. Your entire family must be moved out of your home by Friday and you can only take what you can carry. You do not have the option of leaving the country as all travel has been limited for people of Middle Eastern descent.