A0's (type first and last name.) family was forced into an internment camp during world war ii after the attack on pearl harbor.

Many Japanese-American individuals and families were taken to internment camps during World War II after Pearl Harbor for fear that they could have been spies for the Japs (discriminating term for Japanese people at the time) and work against USA in the war. This happened regardless of the fact that many Japanese-American had never been in Japan and were only such in heritage. 

From this event, many people opted for writing accounts, poems and biographies to record what happened to them. One of the most famous ones is the poem called Attack the Water by Janice Mirikitani. Another well-known product of these camps was Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's Farewell to Manzanar.

The author's purpose is to be persuasive