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Read the poem below and answer the question that follows. ā€œIn Response to Executive Order 9066ā€ by Dwight Okita All Americans of Japanese Descent Must Report to Relocation Centers Dear Sirs: Of course I’ll come. I’ve packed my galoshes and three packets of tomato seeds. Denise calls them love apples. My father says where we’re going they won’t grow. I am a fourteen-year-old girl with bad spelling and a messy room. If it helps any, I will tell you I have always felt funny using chopsticks and my favorite food is hot dogs. My best friend is a white girl named Denise— we look at boys together. She sat in front of me all through grade school because of our names: O’Connor, Ozawa. I know the back of Denise’s head very well. I tell her she’s going bald. She tells me I copy on tests. We’re best friends. I saw Denise today in Geography class. She was sitting on the other side of the room. ā€œYou’re trying to start a war,ā€ she said, ā€œgiving secrets away to the Enemy. Why can’t you keep your big mouth shut?ā€ I didn’t know what to say. I gave her a packet of tomato seeds and asked her to plant them for me, told her when the first tomato ripened she’d miss me. Source: Okita, Dwight. ā€œIn Response to Executive Order 9066.ā€ Breaking the Silence. Ed. Joseph Bruchac. Greenfield Center: Greenfield Review Press, 1983. Manzanar National Historic Site. Web. 6 May 2011. How is this poem more effective than a speech or essay Okita might have written lamenting the unfairness of the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II?