What is a good quote from the book called Farewell to Manzanar?

In chapter one, the narrator, Jeanne Wakatsuki, describes the day two FBI agents came to arrest her father. As he left Woody's place on Terminal Island, the men flanked Papa, and "He didn't struggle. There was no point to it. He had become a man without a country."

This quotation is a good one because it establishes the absurdity of the arrests of Japanese American people in the US after the attack on Pearl Harbor and...

In chapter one, the narrator, Jeanne Wakatsuki, describes the day two FBI agents came to arrest her father. As he left Woody's place on Terminal Island, the men flanked Papa, and "He didn't struggle. There was no point to it. He had become a man without a country."

This quotation is a good one because it establishes the absurdity of the arrests of Japanese American people in the US after the attack on Pearl Harbor and what it meant for them. Jeanne's father was a Japanese immigrant who had built, over the course of thirty-five years, a commercial fishing business, owned two boats, and had children born in America. After the attack on Pearl Harbor he burned a Japanese flag and his identity papers. He wasn't able to become an American citizen because of the US government's policies, and so he literally was a man without a country. He was no longer a citizen of Japan, by choice, yet he was not, legally speaking, an American. His experiences after his arrest and the family's internment offered a tragically diminished life for him from which he never recovered.