Double Impulse

The double impulse in the story is that the Japanese girl wants to be invisible. She didn't want to be noticed as different, she hardly wants to be noticed at all. At the same time she wanted to be accepted, she wanted to prove that she wasn't different. After WWII and the bombing of Pearl Harbor there were trust and loyalty issues between Japan and America resulting in internment camps holding thousands of Japanese Americans.Throughout the story the experience of internment camp influences the author by the desire to be accepted by everybody else. She didn't want to be seen as the foreign oriental, she wanted to show that she was Japanese American and that she deserved the rights that any other American had. Outside influences change the way we view other people in our world. With the terrorism and racial stereotypes going on today, we judge people of certain backgrounds differently. We set different limits with people because of our different understandings of their cultures.