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In 1991, he got $20,000 in cash as a compensation from the US government.

His fame gave him reach to share and advance his ideas.

Startrek was the best time of his life.

He met and protested with Martin Luther King.

Back in Los Angeles after the camps, George remembers a teacher giving him a hard time for no reason.

The rest of the books breezes through his adult life. George spent a total of 4 years behind wires.

I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay.

They remind me of this quote from The Hobbit. He mentions Herbert Nicholson from Vroman Bookstore who always helped people in the camps. Then, they were moved to Tule Lake, where the atmosphere was a lot more tense.

The family spent 1 year and 7 months in Arkansas. It was hot and humid, but they made friends and collaboration was prevalent. George and his family were first put in the Rohwer Relocation Center, in Arkansas. No matter what happened, she was determined to create a pleasant experience for her children. George speaks fondly about his mother’s attitude. Harmony Becker’s drawings have just enough details for emotions. Maus is the most extreme example, simplifying humans to mouse, rats or dogs. You want to represent reality but not too much. There’s always a fine balance to strike when depicting humans in complex, historical situations. Landscapes and fixtures are flatter and more precise, which I like. Nothing particularly violent is ever showed in the book. The art is greyscale, light and soft, with round shapes. The back cover is a combo of the US flag and the Rising Sun flag. George was 5 years old.ĭisclaimer: There’s a controversy about the correct term for the camps. It begins when George’s family is first taken out of their home.

The book goes through many historical events, the loyalty questionnaire, the citizenship trials, and how his mother almost got deported. It seems most history curricula in Europe erased it. I remembered being stunned when I first heard about the internment. The memoir won the American Book Award and Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work. George (famous for Sulu in Startrek and Hiro’s dad in Heroes) was 4 years old when his family left their home. This graphic novel is a memoir about George Takei’s life that focuses on his family’s experience in internment. Get it: UK 🇬🇧 | US 🇺🇸 Last read: 2021Īfter the Pearl Harbor attack, many Japanese-Americans in the US were forced out of their homes by the government and put in military camps.