Embrey and Adams bring out very different aspects to the Manzanar internment Camps. Like Brittany said, Embrey makes the place come alive with her vivid description of the camp. She is able to capture the emotions of the camp through her words. Because she experienced the camp fist hand she has a more personal effect on the reader. She is able to successfully portray the emotions of the imprisoned Asian Americans through her writings. This method iffers from Adams in that Embrey has a first hand account of the situation.
Adams pictures differ from the Embrey's writting in that you have a picture to tell you the exact emotion of the camp. The pictures capture exactly what the camps were like. It is not up to the reader to make up their own emotions regarding the camp like it is in the story. Adams pictures capture the exact moment. It is a sort of raw image of the world in the interment camps.
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I agree with your perspective that Embrey's story has a more personal effect regarding the internment camps, and that the photographs show a raw emotion of that specific moment that cannot quite be captured in an essay written years later.
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