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Come See The Paradise Analysis

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Have you ever wondered how easy a person can take another person’s life? One of the ways to take a person’s life is murder. Another way is stealing everything from that person. Not just materials that they owned but also their rights, their will to live, and their hopes. In this essay I am analyzing how the rhetoric and style of film Come see the Paradise help execute the idea of why the Japanese-Americans had their civil rights stripped from them during WWII.
In this film an American man and a Japanese-American woman fall in love in one of the most crucial times in the U.S. Come see the Paradise would not give out the same message as if it was an Japanese-American was playing the main role instead of an American. The reason is because the film wants the audience to be able to relate. In the film there is a scene were the American man gets torn apart from his family that is Japanese-American. The reason he doesn’t get herded to the internment camp with them is because he is an “American”. This is where Pathos is coming along. The film is trying to use emotion to get to the audience. According to Pew Research Center “…. A new Pew Research Center survey finds that majorities of multiracial adults are proud of their mixed-race background (60%) and feel their racial heritage has made them more open to other cultures (59%). That means in America there is about 60% of families that are Multiracial. If …show more content…

Its relatable now because people just see a Muslim and they automatically think they are a terrorist. The doing of one person does not label the whole race. Racism was also in question back then because the United States was also at war with Germany and Italy. So why only the Japanese ? It is easier too distinguish an Japanese man walking than a German or Italian man. That is were Racism comes into question again. Thus, it was morally wrong imprisoning the Japanese -Americans in camps in WWII without any valid

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