Essay Journey to Topaz
The book I chose for my 2nd trimester novel was, Journey to Topaz, by Yoshiko Uchida. ... Her father is taken by the FBI, and she, her mother, and her older brother Ken, are uprooted from their home and shipped with thousands of West Coast Japanese Americans to the horse stalls of Tanforan Racetrack, and then to the bleak desert concentration camp called Topaz. ... So to conclude the informative essay on Journey to Topaz, Yuki had her own way of discovering who she was on the inside by facing the challenges in an unfamiliar environment, and adapting to the situations that she came across.