The Train to Crystal City Analysis

The book The Train to Crystal City is narrated through the lives of two teenage girls who both lived at Crystal City at a time when World War 2 was going on. The two girls, Ingrid Eiserloh and Sumi Utsushigawa, were American-born, one being German-American and the other Japanese-American (Russell). The story of how the teenage girls get separated from their fathers who are unwilling parties in an exchange program used by America to get back more important Americans like Diplomats who were held in Japan and Germany is told in a way that has never been told before. The book uncovers a history of America during the 2nd World War, in an unpopular event that brought suffering to immigrants and their American-born children.

It addresses the injustices that the immigrants were put through even after living in the country for many years. The author uses this book to give hope to people who are going through difficult situations. The significance of the author’s narrative is achieved where most of her characters somehow find a way to maneuver through their difficulties into a success story. The book speaks volumes of the author branding her as a literate and coherent individual. The narration and presentations of the stories in the book have been made in particularly very clear grammar where the readers can understand without difficulties. The Author style of writing is a systematic in a way where she gives accounts of the different stories and eventually merges then together to tell her story.