Louie and Miné have been made to feel invisible because they were made enemies, and the guards wanted to take away their identity. Louie was famous and went to the Olympics before he joined the military and started fighting for our country, because of that he would usually get picked out and beaten. Miné was born in America but, she was of Japanese descent so she had to go to a camp that was not suitable for living because she was thought to be an enemy. Miné and Louie were both dehumanized and hurt when they were in their camps and it would probably never be the same for them physically and mentally. But they were able to overcome that by not giving up in the camps. Japanese Americans, internees and prisoners of war were made to feel invisible …show more content…
To show defiance, they would steal things from the guards. “...brought newspapers in, but when one did, stealing it was a campwide obsession.”(Hillenbrand 156) Stealing newspapers made the prisoners feel as though the guards could not completely control their lives and make them feel as if they were nothing. Miné would not let anything hold her down because before her life changed she was very into art, so she used this to let her true self shine through even though she was trying to be brought down. “She put her artistic talent to use making sketches of daily life inside the fences. “(The Life of Miné Okubo 4) She is resisting invisibility because she won't let them keep her from doing what she loves, art. Louie and Miné would not let anything bring them down, even though the guards would try to make them feel invisible they would resist it by doing little things, that would make them feel alive