The memoir proposes that it’s essential to learn about this history because it’s only by remembering the past that people can prevent repeating horrible events in the future. Thus, George Takei positions his graphic memoir as a teaching tool and a way to increase awareness of the history of Japanese internment. Indeed, when teenaged George becomes curious about his childhood in the internment camps and searches through his textbooks and library books for information, he finds next to nothing about what happened. Near the end of They Called Us Enemy, George Takei says that one of the biggest issues in the United States is that the darker chapters of American history-such as the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II-aren’t commonly talked about.
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