Throughout the American history, the U.S. government tends to infringe one's freedom during a hypersensitive period, where a specific group of individuals is deemed as detrimental to the society. The admission of U.S. in WWII subsequently sparks the internment for Japanese residents in U.S., associated with the ferocious Pearl Harbor incident on December 7, 1941, where Japan deliberately and clandestinely assailed the U.S. military base, Pearl Harbor, causing the lives of more than 2,500 people, 1,000 more injured and damaged, devastate 18 American ships and approximately 300 airplanes. Immediately, with a rush of shame and animosity, President Franklin Roosevelt convinced the congress to declare war on Japan. Consequently, the U.S. government …show more content…
Furthermore, these stereotypes of Japanese aggravate the intensification of race relation between Japanese and American, where America eventually utilizes first deadliest nuclear weapon in the world, the atomic bomb. Similarly, in document 3 furnishes the forcible relocate experience of Grace Nakamura and her family on May 16, 1942, where she witnessed the pathetic and merciless of life; a young couple with 4 underage children, where the mother hangs the two spooked toddlers on to her coat along with two sobbing babies as the father carries the baby paraphernalia. As it shown, the transformation of Japanese-Americans in the internment camps appears to be adverse for both adult and children, where the adults forcing to farm and children living under an unendurable environment, witnessing the brutality and satanic side of life that will impact their subsequent life