When The Emperor Was Divine By Julie Otsuka

The state of knowing someone is the best feeling cause your safe and can depend on someone for advice. The world is wonderful with many different people. The kindness of being friendly and generous is an affection to be worthy to someone. The book When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka, a Japanese American author, has engrave the detail in which people live through the internment camp during World War II. The camp split many families apart and didn’t know where they were going to. Yet to give the feeling that you know that person, like a family member that you don’t know but somehow you do. The father was divide from his family later to realized he’s not the same person. The author happens to tell a family whom they regard the father as a stranger. The

The changed of the father experience point of view was the last chapter. He tell a moving message which he says, “I’m your slant-eyed sniper in the trees. I'm the saboteur in the shrubs. I'm the stranger at the gate. I'm the traitor in your own backyard. I'm your houseboy. I'm your cook. I'm your gardener. And I've been living here, quietly, beside you, for years, just waiting for Tojo to flash me the high sign. So go ahead and lock me up " (page 143). He was trouble of what he did and he wanted to show that he wasn’t scared. A stranger at the gate is reference to his children not knowing who he is as a person. He lived a normal life as a houseboy which he cook and do others like gardening. All of the those years, he didn’t know what to expect from himself. Yet his message was a mystery at the end of the chapter cause we as a reader don’t know what happen next. Before he was capture, he was fun-loving, yet at the time at the camp he was strong. He became lifeless after returning, for all those crimes he committed. Time has scarred him for whom he used to be, wondering about the suspicious of everyone he