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3.91k reviews for:
They Called Us Enemy - Expanded Edition
Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, George Takei
4.54 AVERAGE
3.91k reviews for:
They Called Us Enemy - Expanded Edition
Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, George Takei
4.54 AVERAGE
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What a lovely storyteller. It's written as though he's tell you the story and drawn as though he's flashing back to memories. I like that style particularly in a shorter book like this that is so focused on sending a message through a personal story.
The images were lovely and evocative. And it's not overly dramatized or sentimental - it feels like real memories that are complicated and messy and not always black and white, but that grey is where things are learnt and real memories live.
The images were lovely and evocative. And it's not overly dramatized or sentimental - it feels like real memories that are complicated and messy and not always black and white, but that grey is where things are learnt and real memories live.
George Takei shares his memories from when his family was sent to a Japanese Internment Camp.
George starts this story with his family being usherd away from their California home. He shares what it was like to arrive and how little a child understood of what was happening. He shares conversations he had with his dad long after the Internment Camps - asking questions and processing feelings. He even points out that this chapter of history is left out of most American history books, even though it is so important.
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I shed a tear at my silent book club reading this ᵕ̈
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I really enjoyed this book and this story. This is one of the first graphic novels I’ve read and it did not disappoint! I thought everything in this book was very important and could translate well to young people who get their hands on this book. This is something that should be considered in American English or History curriculum. A digestible way to understand these stories and experiences.
I have to admit that until I taught Farewell to Manzanar, I knew very little about this dark part of US history. Like Takei, I was not taught about the Japanese-American internment and was taught very little about slavery and the Trail of Tears etc. I feel that many of these events were left out of the history books in hope to erase it from our memory. In my role as an English teacher, I find myself to be more responsible for understanding history and the context of the books that I teach. Takei, who is most famous for his role on Star Trek, is now well-known for his hilarious political posts and his out-spoken views on social injustice in the world. He spent several years of his childhood in at least 2-3 internment camps. I posed a question of what is the benefit of learning about injustice in the view of those who experienced it. I feel that the quote Takei included at the ending says it best, " Justice grows out of recognition of ourselves in each other that my liberty depends on you being free, too. That history can't be a sword to justify injustice or a shield against progress. But must be a manual for how to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past" -President Barack Obama