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Read the poem below and answer the question that follows. “in response to executive order 9066” by dwight okita all americans of japanese descent must report to relocation centers dear sirs: of course i’ll come. i’ve packed my galoshes and three packets of tomato seeds. denise calls them love apples. my father says where we’re going they won’t grow. i am a fourteen-year-old girl with bad spelling and a messy room. if it any, i will tell you i have always felt funny using chopsticks and my favorite food is hot dogs. my best friend is a white girl named denise— we look at boys together. she sat in front of me all through grade school because of our names: o’connor, ozawa. i know the back of denise’s head very well. i tell her she’s going bald. she tells me i copy on tests. we’re best friends. i saw denise today in geography class. she was sitting on the other side of the room. “you’re trying to start a war,” she said, “giving secrets away to the enemy. why can’t you keep your big mouth shut? ” i didn’t know what to say. i gave her a packet of tomato seeds and asked her to plant them for me, told her when the first tomato ripened she’d miss me. source: okita, dwight. “in response to executive order 9066.” breaking the silence. ed. joseph bruchac. greenfield center: greenfield review press, 1983. manzanar national historic site. web. 6 may 2011. how is this poem more effective than a speech or essay okita might have written lamenting the unfairness of the relocation of japanese americans during world war ii?

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