Monday, October 29, 2007

Comic Book

I chose a Captain America comic book. It is a picture of Captain America and his sidekick fighting a battle on a beach against the Japanese. They are riding on a bull dozer running over many Japanese with it. Captain America is in motion to throw a bomb on them while his sidekick is shooting them with a gun. Planes are coming in and shooting with air attacks.
I think it is talking about World War II after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The Americans are retaliating and sending in troops to kill the Japanese. They did it in such a powerful manor which is symbolizing the bull dozer. They jus pushed the Japanese around in their own country. With all the Japanese dieing/dead this symbolizes that the Americans won.
This is related to chapter 10 Takaki Pacific Crossing. This chapter talks about how the Japanese were treated unfairly. They moved to America for the better money pay and the work. With this bad terms came between white and Japanese races. They felt as those the Japanese were taking all the jobs and then were not treated with the same rights as the white race was treated with. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor that just crossed the line and then the Americans nuked them twice.
These comics did not really affect me at all. I do not know a whole lot about the different wars that happened in the past. A few of the comics were a little extreme with the racism they put in it.

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