The thought of being made invisible, and being isolated and dehumanized is absurd. In Unbroken by Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini is treated as if he is invisible. During WWII Louie is taken as a POW and is humbled, tortured, starved, and beaten daily. He is being dehumanized and isolated from the outside world. In The Life of Miné Okubo Miné is a Japanese-American living in America during WWII. During this time she is informed that she must move out of her apartment and be sent to a relocation camp as a result of the war against the Japanese and the fear that the Japanese-Americans living in the Americas will attempt to sabotage the United States. Louie and Miné are treated as if they are invisible. There are many pieces of evidence to illustrate …show more content…
Even though Louie cried out for a doctor for many days, multiple times, they still neglected him when the doctor finally came one day, he walked up to Louie's cell, chuckled, then walked away without fulfilling his needs. Isolation is shown here because they see Louie, but they choose to ignore him instead of helping him. ¨As Louie and Phil lie in their cells one day, they heard commotion outside, the clamoring sounds of a mob. Then faces pressed into Louie´s door window, shouting. Rocks started flying in. More men came, one after another, screaming, spitting at Louie, hitting him with rocks, hurling sticks like javelins. Down the hall, the men were doing the same to Phil. Louie balled himself up at the far end of the cell.¨ (191) 80 to 9o men spend 30 seconds attacking each captive. When the men finally left, Louie was sitting in pools of spit, rocks, and sticks and on top of that he was bleeding. The attackers were a submarine crew stopping over the island. This quote shows dehumanization because even though Louie and Phil did nothing wrong, and did nothing to deserve the harsh attack, the men still decided to throw things at them, spit …show more content…
“A woman seated near the entrance gave me a card with No. 7 printed on it and told me to go inside and wait,” Miné wrote later. Then she was called into a room for a detailed interview. “As a result of the interview,” she wrote, “my family name was reduced to No. 13660. I was given several tags bearing the family number, and was then dismissed” (3) Miné and her family had just arrived at the front desk of the relocation center. Miné is being made invisible by getting her sacred family name replaced with just an original number. This is an example of dehumanization, humans are called by their unique name not an ordinary number. ¨Inadequate and dangerous conditions were common in the camps. Some internees reported being housed in cafeterias and bathrooms because the camps were overcrowded. The camps were designed to keep Japanese-Americans isolated from the rest of the country in remote areas. This often meant that they were located in the middle of the desert, exposing internees to searing heat during the day, freezing cold at night, and rattlesnakes at any hour.¨ (4) Miné and her family live at the camps in small, dirty, dangerous conditions. Miné is being invisible by the leader of the camps, not worrying about what these living conditions are for Miné and her family the leader still chose to just throw Minné and her family into any place he could as