Dehumanization In The Book Unbroken By Laura Hillenbrand

During World War II conflict broke out between Japan and America. World War 2 was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, the protagonist, Louie Zamperini was captured by the Japanese and became a POW. At his time in the internment camps he was abused physically and mentally. In the article “The Life of Mine”, Mine Okubo a Japanese American woman, is isolated from Americans and sent to detainment camps. Both of them were made invisible and dehumanized, but at the same time they resisted the dehumanization and isolation. By doing so they were able to preserve their dignity. At the POW camps Japanese captors would dehumanize and isolate the POWs in all sorts of ways finding pleasure from doing