![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not until he’s a teenager in Los Angeles that George becomes curious about his childhood in the internment camps and speaks to Daddy about it. Though George gets occasional glimpses into the adult world of politics and danger, Mama and Daddy mostly shelter him, which means that George’s childhood is as enjoyable as possible given the circumstances. Rather, George and Henry throw themselves into discovering as much about their world as possible while they’re in the camps. He and his little brother, Henry, don’t know anything different, so they don’t think it’s abnormal to, for instance, have to travel on a train with guards or eat meals on a set schedule in the mess hall. Given his age, internment seems like a great adventure to George. ![]() Months later, the Takei family is incarcerated in an internment facility, first in Rower, Arkansas and later at Camp Tule Lake in California. George is only five when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and the U.S. George Takei is the author and protagonist of the memoir. ![]()
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