Pow Camp Analysis

Evidence # 1:
After spending forty seven days with out food and stranded at sea “ Louie and Phil were captured, and now they had to take a harsh beating. “The sun sank. The beating went on for some two hours, the Bird watching with fierce and erotic pleasure. When every enlisted man had done his punching, the bird ordered the guards to club each one twice in the head with a Kendo stick (302).” After practically being starved to death while stranded at sea, Phil and Louie get captured by the Japanese. They immediately get thrown into a POW camp and receive beating that lasts for two hours,making them not want to fight back. The crimes that was committed against the soldiers eventually led to death and for the survivors PTSD,causing them to mentally not be the same after the war.
the Japanese separated them when they found out they were brothers. Bill survived on meagre rations of rice laced through with maggots and rat droppings. When a Chinese refugee came begging, they watched as a guard beheaded him. Later, in a series of camps near Tokyo, they were made to work, furiously, labour that put Bill back to cutting firewood. That blend of hunger, toil and illness--dysentery, beriberi, malaria--was often lethal. Bill's chores included cremating the dead with a Buddhist priest, who chanted as the bodies burned. The POW camps were infested with horrible diseases that caused a lot of the men to die from it. The POWs were forced to do harsh work that was dangerous and also while they were hungery. The Japanese were brutal to them as they watched vecious things happen to others and also forced them to do brutal things as they worked. Causing the men to scarred for the rest of their