by Joy Kogawa
by William Shakespeare
"Sonnet 29" by William Shakespeare highlights the peace found with death, and that will always be relevant, but with the Syrian refugee crisis and discrimination around the world, "What Do I Remember of the Evacuation" connects with life more today. "What Do I Remember of the Evacuation" tells the tale of a little Japanese girl whose family gets evacuated to camps during the war. Today, Syrian refugees are being sent to camps where the conditions are harsh and it seems like almost nobody wants to take them in. Also, around the world people are being discriminated against, like the girl in the poem who gets scorned just because she wrote her name in Japanese. At the end of the poem, the last message is that the little girl is praying to god that she might be white. Many people around the world are bleaching their skin and getting eye surgery because they want to be Caucasian. This is what western society sees as ideal. It is an injustice to humanity to discriminate against people, and it has such a negative effect as we can see from the little girls puzzlement after getting a negative reaction to writing in her native language. Some people may be connecting to "Sonnet 29" more because of discrimination, and for some people, the only escape would be death, and the peace that comes with it.
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