In the 1940s, Japanese Americans faced much persecution. The events of World War II created vast amounts of racism in the United States, especially toward Japanese Americans. They were forced into internment camps; they were taken away from their own lives and treated poorly there. The novel Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas envisions what it was like to live near an internment camp, and it gives a glimpse of how people viewed Japanese Americans during this time. This novel and David Guterson’s novel Snow Falling on Cedars are similar. Both novels were written within the same fifteen year time period, and they shed light on the prejudice against Japanese Americans during and after World War II. Snow Falling on Cedars is primarily an investigation