Week 5 Question 9

9. What is the effect of using a fourteen-year-old girl as the narrator in “In Response to Executive Order 9066”? In terms of impact, how does this differ than it might with her father as the narrative voice?

I think that using a young girl to narrate the story has a lasting impression on the readers. I think that a girl can captivate an audience with her story, one of which is told with an innocence that a child brings. You want to hear the tale that is to be told, because you are unable to truly believe that one so young has experienced these events. If the father were to have told the story, I think that the audience may have been less inclined to really engage in the story, because it is a more likely scenario for him to have undergone.