Journal Entry 67: Betrayal :)

The poem, In Response to Executive Order 9066 by Okita Dwight has some betrayal events in it. In the poem, the Japanese American girl who thinks she is a real American girl was betrayed by her best friend which was a American girl named Denise. This is because the poem is during the World War II and that was when the Japanese that lived in America were the enemies of the Americans. The American girl, Denise did not want to be the Japanese American girl's friend because the Americans think that the Japanese Americans were giving away secrets to the Japanese. Plus during that time people were racist, such as they think asian people (yellow colored people) were not humans, they treat the asians like pets. The Japanese American girl then gives the American girl some tomato seeds saying that by the time the tomatos grows, she would be missing her by then. By that she meant that she was going to leave. I had been betrayed before too like when I was in seventh grade. Well it was like I was friends with this girl (lets call her girl 1) and she knew that I disliked this girl in the class (lets just call her girl 2), so girl 1 pretended to dislike girl 2 with me. Girl 1 told me some of her bad words and I told her too. Then the next day girl 1 went to tell girl 2 that I totally hate her and that I keep talking behind her back. Well I was sort of pissed when I knew that girl 1 went to tell girl 2 since I told girl 1 not to tell girl 2. Well some people were just probably born to be big mouths and dumb since that girl 1 does not get when I told her not to tell others.