Unbroken Dehumanization

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Throughout Unbroken and the various dehumanizing events of war and conflict, citizens relate and make sense of these activities in different ways. Nations perform isolation events and force humans to feel dehumanized when they are desperate to protect and defend their country. Concentration camps, slavery, nuclear bombs, and torn away from your home all relate to the conflicts of war.

Imprisonment and forced labor was a major and common way to dehumanize the enemy in order to feel superior. In “Unbroken”, the Bird mandates the POWs to serve for Japan, and especially targets Louie with impunity in order to make him feel invisible. The Bird forcefully attempts to shift Louie’s paradigm of himself from being a famous, successful olympic runner,
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Our citizens ( U.S citizens)believed in order to protect our country and fight to save thousand of POW’s this Earth rattling decision was necessary. President Roosevelt’s speech declared that Japan was now the enemy,and they would battle in order to defend the United States. This is universally shown through Japan, America and other nations and their power and strive to defend themselves against the enemy. America was attempting to end the war at the earliest possible moment in order to save our citizens and familiarity of lifestyle. With the end of the war approaching, America decided the Soviet Union would be an important strategic ally for the near conflicts. We were making sense of blowing up Japan by providing reasons, including justifying the attack of Pearl Harbor. Truman responded by addressing the horror of Pearl Harbor, noting that, “When you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him as a beast.”

Additionally, we can make sense of these brutal and inhumane ways of society by analyzing how the conflict has affected the particular nation or individual. Throughout “Inside Out and Back Again”, the main character( He) was torn out of her home, and forced to migrate to an unfamiliar location, having removed any trace of familiarity. Ha had to come back from her experiences by adapting to her new environment and learning a new culture and English tradition. She and the millions of other immigrants were abandoning their country in a way, which proves the fact of dehumanization being caused by power and

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