Citizen13660 pgs. 748-759

The general argument made by Mine Okubo in her work Citizen 13660, is that Japanese Americans were treated poorly. More specifically Okubo writes about her experiences in the internment camps and drew pictures of what it was like because you could not take pictures in the internment camps. She writes, “In the summer in Topaz we had a choice of being eaten by mosquitoes outdoors or suffocating with the heat indoors(p.758).” In this passage Okubo is suggesting that they were treated horribly, and no one took any account to care about them. In conclusion, it is Okubo’s belief that they were treated horribly.

In my view, Okubo is right because the Japanese Americans were treated horribly. For example in Okubo’s story they didn’t have any privacy when going to the bathroom, they had bad shelter and they were consistently worrying about what was going to happen to them next.  I conclude that this was a horrible thing that happened to Japanese Americans. It saddens me that all that bad stuff happened towards them. I am glad that we are able to read about it learn from it.