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. why does okita include this description of the speaker? to emphasize the cultural differences between japanese americans and other americans to accentuate the social injustice of japanese americans being interned to highlight the fact that the speaker is no different from any other average american girl to call attention to the tear in the narrator’s relationship with her best friend