There is one person, a Japanese-American novelist, a poet, a playwright, and this man is no other than Dwight Holden Okita. Dwight Holden Okita has released one of his poems, In Responsive to Executive Order 9066: All Americans of Japanese Descent Must Report to Relocation Center, which the poem has been published sometime around 1982, this demonstrates discrimination, unfairness, ignorance and innocence of the Japanese and child. Okita got inspired to make this poem because he’d remember growing up into hearing some vague reference to his parents being in "camps" during the war, but it wasn't until he was in high school that he started to ask his mother serious questions about it and unlike his father, who was more reticent about his experience. Other poems that Okita had written are from his
As you can see, that the author, Dwight Holden Okita reflects on what his personal matters are to show in his work and as for himself to address that he is also Japanese-American can prove so as a pattern in most of poems. According to a post and website called, Positivelydifferent, it has been mentioned that the 14-year old girl’s best friend, Denise, who is in fact white has said a specific statement that was towards the 14-year old girl and Japanese which was, “You're trying to start a war, giving secrets away to the Enemy. Why can't you keep your big mouth shut?" Therefore, this quote that Denise said from the poem clearly displays the discrimination towards the child and the Japanese itself. Clearly saying that the Japanese was the cause of the war and the absurdity of the quote itself that Denise mentions, made a few statements regarding of the Japanese that might have been handing secrets that could possibly be starting a war. Furthermore, that Dwight Holden Okita is a poet who serves his poems as a reflection of his personal matters in real