A question that you could ask the author or a character is:
Author: How did you feel when you were writing this story? How did you get the idea of the plot and characters?
Character: When you were in the story, how did you feel about what you went through?
These are just my ideas :)
Frist logical connection between the two is that Manzanar Internment and the Japanese living in West Coast of USA are both Japanese people forced to live in isolation because American government thought that Japanese had invaded Pearl Harbour and they must be looked upon with suspicion.
Secondly,in both the cases ,innocent Japanese may have suffered isolation because"Fear was Stronger than Justice".American government was not ready to listen to Japanese people living in USA whether they were innocent or not.They could be potential spy ,ready and willing to assist Japanese in invasion.
Pairs of words with the same meaning