EN 2220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Hastings Park, Japanese Canadians
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Tutorial 13: frog broke its leg, bird: kids are torturing the poor bird and they want to kill it, cat: in the hole and it is mewing, it never leaves the hole, chickens. What does the novel want to do with the animals in the text: relating people to animals, that is how the nazi"s would do it. The language of dehumanization is rapid in this period. This rhetoric around cultural differences is often dehumanization. Second world war echoes of dehumanization going on. In hastings park (its in vancouver, the livestock facility where they process. They are brought to the livestock place for processing. Back to back scenes in hastings where the japanese were fighting to prove that they were not animals. At neither moment do we hear a response from the guard or the nurse that they understand the pain they are going through. It is an easy and compelling way to read the animals in the text.
