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When The Emperor Was Divine By Julie Otsuka

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“When the Emperor was Divine” is a novel written by Julie Otsuka. The novel is about a Japanese American family being sent to an internment camp during World War II. One of the major themes was isolation and separation as their father arrested by the FBI and was separated from his family and the mother and her two children are removed from their home and forced into internment camps, which were fenced and surrounded by desert, isolating them from the rest of the world. Because the family is uncertain about their future, they hope for the best to keep their minds off of their current suffering.
In the camp, the boy imagines what his friends are thinking about him and his family being away. He imagines his friends being worried about him. When
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