- In The Crucible, innocent people are accused and punished during a time of hysteria, just like Japanese Americans were imprisoned out of fear, not facts. The government, like the Salem court, chose to act on paranoia rather than evidence.

-Abigail Williams manipulates the Salem witch trials for personal gain, showing how fear can be weaponized. Similarly, politicians and military leaders used wartime fear to justify racist policies, stripping Japanese Americans of their rights.

- In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is publicly shamed and forced to wear a scarlet “A”, symbolizing her sin. Japanese Americans, too, were labeled and separated, not because of anything they did, but because of who they were.

- The Puritan society in The Scarlet Letter isolates Hester from the community. Likewise, Japanese American families were forced into isolated internment camps, far from their homes, simply because society feared them.

These connections remind us how easily a society can fall into injustice when fear replaces reason, and how deeply those injustices can affect individuals and communities.