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  • Book Name: When the Emperor Was Divine
  • Authors: Julie Otsuka
  • Pages: 101
  • Genre: Historical fiction
  • Publish Date: 2002
  • Language: English

Book Review:


When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka so you can pause it if you haven't read it yet so when the Emperor was divine is a book about the Japanese internment camps during World War two and it's fiction but some of Julie some of the author's family actually was in the internment camp so this topic is definitely near and dear to her 

so I'll jump right in with a non spoiler summary so again it's about a family from California and one day they see signs posted on the door that are all over town that they have to be sent to a Japanese internment camp so they pack up all their stuff and they go and the story has five chapters and each chapter is told from a different person's point of view s

o the first chapter is told from the mother's point of view which it's Jesus called woman the second chapter is told through the sisters point of view and she is just called girl the third chapter is told through the boys point of view and he's just called boy 

the fourth chapter is told through a combination of the girl and the boys point of view and the fifth chapter is told through the father's point of view and it's really interesting how the author included AFSA having names for any of the characters and it definitely goes to symbolize 

the government treatment of these Japanese Americans during the war - they weren't even good enough to have names they were just people they were just boy and woman and I mean there are really numbers 

but it just breaks it down to really who they were and the father which I mentioned um who his point of view is told from the fifth chapter he was actually arrested before the family got sent can't because they thought he was a suspect or spy so he was actually in another internment camp away from the family so my rating of the book is eight out of ten 

I definitely liked it it was definitely a very good book I would recommend it for someone that wants a very eye-opening book definitely someone who likes history historical fiction for sure and someone who just wants their eyes open on you know what really happened and stuff 

so now I'm gonna jump into the spoiler section of the review so if you have not yet read the book I would suggest turning the turning this review off right now so all right so let's jump right into it

so I'm just gonna start with basically another summary so the story really follows the character is kind of development throughout the story each one of the characters development and how the internment camps really affected each one of the characters so like the story is told from well the story isn't told from

one person to another but it's told from one point of view at the time I'm gonna break down the characters kind of development throughout the story and it's important to note that all these characters are rounded dynamic characters they change throughout the book so the first character 

I'm gonna break down is the girl so the girl I would say what really happened to her when she went to the internment camps is she was and each person was stripped of something so I think the girl was stripped of her identity 

I think would be the best classification because well she's at the internment camp she turned into like a classic American girl she started you know smoking cigarettes and just doing stuff that was foreign to her family stuff that they'd never seen before and likewise 

I would also say that the boy was stripped of his identity the boys chapter chapter 3 is about why they're actually in the internment camps so we really get to see the development much better there were the effects of the typic am much better through the boy than through the girl so we see how he the boy is he's innocent he's an innocent boy who wants his culture 

he just he's just being stripped of it in the internment camp and he wants so badly for things we normally keep his culture but he can't do that and I think one of the most interesting and one of the most deepest parts of the book is when the mom mother tells the boy you can't say 

the Emperor's name because people will think you know you're aligned with him and the boy you know the boy he occasionally he just says it i'm lizbeth the show is defined see and show his desire to want to be you know normal want to go back to his heritage but he really can't what 

I thought was really powerful I know I move on to the woman or who was the mother of the two and in the first chapter of the book the story depicts the mother as super-strong there was a dog a family dog and she couldn't take the dog with to the internment camps and she couldn't find anybody to take care of the dog 

so she actually had to kill the dog and in that scene it showed how strong she was she was and throughout the book the mother was stripped of the strength and that's what I think she was shipped up she was shipped up her will guys in the internment camp we see her if she knows after 

she's been in the tournament camp for a while she doesn't go outside she spends days just sitting in her dorm and she says she can't even tell anymore if she's sleeping or awake and they're just miserable for her so it takes her strength when they're first on the train when they first arrive at the internment camp the mother strong keeps the children going like it's gonna be okay but throughout

it just this will just just dissipates and she's no longer you know helpful to the children and she's no longer that's the same strength that she had she's scared and even when she comes back from the internment camp it shows that she's scared she has the children sleep in once 

I proven one insecure when she sleeps in one separate room just because she's scared of everything that's gonna happen that strength is just gone and finally I will break down the father who had the biggest transformation I'd say I said he would strict up himself he was no longer himself 

when he came back throughout the novel from the boy and the mother in the girls description we paint this picture of the father as being awesome father really energetic it talks about how he loves to read books to his children 

he loves to play games with them he's just a really great father to them and the kids love that and that's for you know the kids dream about actually while they're in the internment camp is that their father is going to come back and everything's gonna normal they're gonna play with their father out in the yard

that simply doesn't happen when the father comes back he's a completely changed man he no longer reach the kids placed the kids he says secluded it in himself and in a really interesting scene 

it talks about how the father he couldn't find a job so the father had spent his whole time writing and the talks about how the father you know his handwriting slowly grew smaller and smaller until his handing that writing was really no more which is really symbolic his handwriting his himself 

you know he started out like awesome handwriting and it slowly dissipated until it wasn't himself so in physical form yeah the man came back to the house came back to his family but in in reality and in mental form the father was left at the internment camps used forever change 

so I'll get into some themes now so I think there's two really big major themes in this novel and the first of which is hypocrisy the book doesn't explicitly talk about the the Nazi concentration camps but it's it's eerily similar if you know anything about history it's just it's grossly similar and the most disturbing part is all this is real while we were fighting we were fighting the 

you know the concentration camps we were having some in America it's just the hypocrisy of everything the Apocrypha of you know the American citizens you know you've been today like we say the land of the free and these japanese-americans weren't free it wasn't the land of the 

free to them and just that amazing hypocrisy of how much racism really went into this is it's quite remarkable and that's a big major theme I'd say the second major theme is effects of imprisonment and loss of identity so we saw all these characters all for them they got taken away over their 

freedom and with that they got taken away of their identities it was like in one of the scenes when the children were back at their home after the internment camps it talks about how much they're stripped of their identity and how much they didn't even go by their names anymore because they didn't want the kids to make fun of them because they were Japanese 

so they picked American names and it talks about how how they didn't really interact with any kids anymore they just kept on themselves because they just they didn't want to make fun of their identity their culture has been stripped the boy no longer said the Emperor's name under his breath and no longer had any connection with his with his heritage and going back to that hypocrisy point 

I forgot to mention something that I really like to mention it talked about in one scene on the train and the Train is chapter two so it was the girls narrative this man came up to the girl and asked and told him and said something in Japanese and the girls pondered by saying oh I'm sorry

I only speak English which shows the hypocrisy of the whole situation because these these family didn't even speak Japanese if they spoke American they were integrated into the American culture of course they still had their Japanese heritage but they were integrated into the American culture as illustrated by the fact that 

they only spoke English the American language and it's just stunning how despite this you know just because of the color of the skin and you know their origin that they were highly highly cheekums so I forgot that point I thought that was worth going back so 

I'll get into some of the symbols so the first symbol I want to talk about is the Emperor and I've already talked about it quite a bit but again it symbolized the heritage and the Japanese culture and how you know the soldier said don't you can't say the Emperor's word and tempers name anymore because 

they were quite literally stripping them of that Japanese culture you can they said to them you can no longer be Japanese which is amazing they just it's just quite not amazing 

I mean that was a terrible word it's quite it's quite oh so what I'm looking for it's it's terrible and I'll say actually it's just it's unbelievable that's the word I was looking for it's unbelievably terrible that that happened and the next symbol I want to talk about is trees so before the family leaves to

go the internment camp they plant a tree in there and their front yard and their whole house is filled with trees but when they get to the internment camp there's no trees to ever be seen and it's just the tree symbolized there they're like their home and their their absence from home is the absence of

 trees their absence of comfort and on the train ride to the internment camp there was a mention about trees and someone said I heard there's not community trees here and that was a complete shot it was nothing like home and they just wanted to get back to those trees they just wanted to get back home and finally 

I'll talk about the last symbol that I'm is horses and again on the train right there the boy discovered the board revealed how he loved horses and while they're going through Utah the boys no actually was in Mexico 

as they were going through New Mexico the boy saw his bane of wild horses and he was so fascinated but these wild horses were running away from him and again those horses also symbolize the Japanese culture and yeah Japanese culture the horses the thing that the boy was so fascinated 

he loved them it was running away from them he couldn't get them it was going away and later while they're at internment camp the boy Ponder's what where this is a spoon come from and the girl who is getting Americanized right now SAS is the boy and says oh they cut up those horses and eat them 

which is you know it's symbolic in the way that the girl has now become Americanized where she no she taunted rather just like all the other American girls which you know it could be just normal you know normal growing up but before the internment camp she really does not like this she's really 

very sweet to her brother and I think it really symbolizes how she got Americanized but anyways also symbolizes how even though it was the horses was the food the Americans were killing Japanese culture they were shooting the horses and they're shooting the Japanese culture and it could never return 

So my final thoughts on this book I think it's a book that everybody should read it's honestly super hard to read not because 

it's boring or dense just because of how she cuz the hypocrisy and it's just hard to you know hard to fathom that America the great nation did that and there's a lot going on with like racism right 

now you know there's that there's a lot going on there country with racism right now and there's a lot of very heated issues and I think it's really important for everyone to read this book 






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