Argumentative Essay On Japanese Internment

Can you imagine being taken from your home, and not knowing when or if you’ll get to come back? Well, Japanese Americans didn’t have to imagine it, it was their reality. The great majority of these people didn’t do anything to deserve the fate they got. The Japanese-Americans were taken from their homes and put into internments camps all across the United States. After the Bombing of Pearl Harbor President Roosevelt decided to put all Japanese-Americans in Internment Camps because he didn’t trust any of them. In 1942 Japanese-Americans were wrongly taken from their homes because Americans considered them life-threatening. Japanese-Americans were punished because of the attacks on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The people were soon to distrust
Regaining their freedom was a good thing but it also had its downfall. Many, if not all the Japanese-Americans were in poverty in the years 1945 and 1956 when they were freed. The jobs they did have in the camps didn’t pay very well and were degrading for some. It was hard for them to get a job. Life was completely altered for all the Japanese-Americans after their life in Internment Camps. Many of them refuse to even talk about their lives in the internments, that’s how bad it was. “I didn’t know what prejudice was until I was sent to the camp,” West asserts. “Then I knew.” (Eng). Japanese-Americans will not be able to ever forget those days in the camps. “It was so simple, watching her, to see why everything that had happened to me since we left the camp referred back to it, in one way or another” (Houston). Many of them didn’t know what to do because of what they were told to do all the time for a few years. The Japanese-Americans constantly look back at how their life was in the camps and how it effects their everyday
After Pearl Harbor 100,000 Japanese-Americans were wrongly put into Internment Camps. Life was full of melancholy in the Internment Camps. It interfered with family traditions, effected gender roles, and changed life in every way. The Japanese-Americans had to live in poorly made camps for something that they didn’t do. With the skepticism from the Americans after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese-Americans were put into Internment Camps when they shouldn’t have been. Life afterwards was greatly effect for the Japanese-Americans. They were in poverty, didn’t know what to do with knew found freedom, and they didn’t have anywhere to go because they sold their homes. The people that lived in the camps had a hard time retelling their life in the camps because of how awful it was. The Japanese-Americans should never have been put into those camps, they were loyal to America. This is great injustice is one that get overlooked too many times, and should never be repeated