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Question 40 • Literature and Composition III

Read the excerpt from "In Response to Executive Order 9066". I am a fourteen-year-old girl with bad spelling and a messy room. If it helps any, I will tell you I have always felt funny using chopsticks and my favorite food is hot dogs. Why does Okita include this description of the speaker?

Answer
A
to accentuate the social injustice of Japanese Americans being interned
B
to call attention to the tear in the narrator’s relationship with her best friend
C
to highlight the fact that the speaker is no different from any other average American girl
D
to emphasize the cultural differences between Japanese Americans and other Americans
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