Also to explain what the people were like and how they acted. Why were the Japanese interned? What type of book is Farewell to Manzanar? What happened to the Wakatsuki family? They were relocated to the Manzanar camp. Describe the conditions in the barracks. The barracks has been divided into small units and were crowded. What is the tone of Farewell to Manzanar? As the narrator of Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne describes events in a very unemotional and observational way, as if looking on from a distance.
This tone is effective because it helps her keep the factual accounts of the events she witnesses separate from her emotions at the time she witnesses them. What is the central idea of Farewell to Manzanar? There are several themes, or recurring ideas, in her work. Some of these themes are childhood innocence and the understanding of reality she develops as she grows and matures.
Being in an internment camp and learning to deal with racism at such a young age makes it difficult for her to develop a positive self-identity. What is the main conflict in Farewell to Manzanar?
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What is the author's relationship to manzanar? Marilyn Read the summary above. She was interned there with her family. See all 6 questions about Farewell to Manzanar….
Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. Sort order. Jan 29, Tammy King Carlton rated it it was amazing Shelves: my-personal-favs. The scene where Jeanne's mother throws her china dishes onto the floor - one by one - in front of a salesman who wants to buy them for an offensively low price, just because he knows she has no choice -is one of the best moments of triumph of the human spirit over injustice that I have ever read.
I will never forget it. View all 5 comments. Nov 13, Selena rated it it was amazing Shelves: read-for-college , kidlit , history , japanese-american , biography , women , interracial , internment , smithie-books. Re-reading this as research for my writing. It was while reading this book during my "Narratives of Interment" course in college that one of my classmates asked the fateful question, "Can we go to California?
He shocked us all a few days later by explaining that the American Studies department would foot the bill for our class to go to Manzanar. We were ecstatic. It was the most moving experience I have ever had. It was totally worth the red eye flight and sle Re-reading this as research for my writing. It was totally worth the red eye flight and sleepless night on our return trip, even before we boarded the bus to the camp, for we were going on the annual pilgrimage to Manzanar with former internees.
View 1 comment. May 04, Jennifer Wardrip rated it liked it Shelves: read-by-other-reviewers , trt-posted-reviews. When I began reading this book I had no idea what the "internment" camps were. This is a subject that not many know about and is not a very well-known time in history. The people were forced to go and didn't have a choice, even if they were born in America and only had Japanese ancestry.
The camps were in the middle of the desert, so that the people wouldn't be able to leave. At first I didn't like the book very much. But as I kept reading I began to like it. I can't say that I loved it, because I didn't; it's not a "loving" type of story.
I enjoyed learning about something that I knew nothing about. I think all Americans should read this book so that they know that this happened. It is not something that is often talked about, but it should be, so that every American citizen knows about this part that the government played in World War II. Aug 02, Erin Reilly-Sanders rated it it was ok Shelves: biography , juvenile , non-fiction. Reading as an adult, I think I enjoyed the book much more at the beginning. Initially, the story is intriguing, specific, and personal, setting the reader in the moment.
It's strength is that it tells a particular and true tale of the Japanese Internment that is not just a story that happens during the time period, but a personal experience and the connections to events before and after the years in Manzanar. Compared to the horrible stories of human atrocities heard from other parts of the worl Reading as an adult, I think I enjoyed the book much more at the beginning. Compared to the horrible stories of human atrocities heard from other parts of the world, Jeanne's trials are comparatively not so bad although she does attempt to explain why they affected other members of her family more by assaulting her father's honor and her mother's dignity and the social institution of family.
However, in order to keep the book short, the experiences seem to become further apart and less well connected more into the book. While it is a nice memoir, and certainly appropriate for kids, this is not a kid's book despite being about a child.
It evolves into much more of a nostalgic look into childhood from an adult perspective and the effects of such a childhood on an adult. I think that the overall piece would have been much stronger had it settled on one particular idea such as dissolving family conditions or dealing with racial shame.
Instead, the book does what it attempted to do, help an adult deal with childhood memories while providing a historical document for family members. I would likely recommend other books on the Japanese Internment to children instead of this one.
Mar 22, Cindy rated it really liked it. Although I've read a lot of stories written by Holocaust survivors, this was the first book that I have read about the Japanese-American internment camps. This is a part of American history that many, many Americans seem to know nothing about. View all 3 comments. Oct 05, Kathrina rated it liked it Shelves: resources-for-ya , memoirs-bios. There's a lot of baggage associated with this title -- It pops up frequently on required reading lists for schools.
Oh, the irony of being forced to read a book about people being forced against their wills. Also, the work was one of the first published narratives documenting the internment experience, and the author's intended audience, as she explains in the afterword, was not specifically for young readers although, of course, she welcomes its popularity in classroom curriculum. I don't lik There's a lot of baggage associated with this title -- It pops up frequently on required reading lists for schools.
I don't like the historical tendency in publishing to attach a "young reader" label to a work, simply because the narrator is a young person. That seems to be changing in the last few years, but when this work first hit the scene in the early 70's, it was instantly labeled a work for youth, and therefore missed an audience, for decades, and maybe still, that should have been familiar with it, especially since there remains a relative lack of Japanese-American internment narratives in print.
The fist half of the work is an easily accessible description of life before and during the internment; but the second half is a mediation on the effects of the experience on the rest of her life, a pilgrimage to the desolate geography of the camp, and a reckoning with her father's memory.
Young readers required to read this for a class are likely to lose interest at this point, and the adult readers who might find this narrative rewarding might never discover it as material appropriate for their demographic.
The empathic turn has been too sharp for most readers, and requires a really deft teacher to pull them through.
I was incensed at the government for the first time in my life after reading this at age That was the first time I looked at the myths of our country critically.
I think it's sad that they only way children learn about the Japanese internment situation is through reading outside of school. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston really breathes life into history with this book which tells the real-life story of her internment in a relocation camp during World War 2.
It is no secret that the USA is a racist country and always has been. Asians met with the same hateful behavior that Native Americans, blacks, etc have faced. I was glad to see the point made in the book by a person who sued the US government for being imprisoned during the war without having committed any crime nor undergone due pro Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston really breathes life into history with this book which tells the real-life story of her internment in a relocation camp during World War 2.
I was glad to see the point made in the book by a person who sued the US government for being imprisoned during the war without having committed any crime nor undergone due process or court trial that both Germany and Italy were our enemies during the war yet there was no interment camps for German-Americans nor Italian-Americans maybe they were too white? This is something my own father used to rant about when I was a child.
He had been drafted as a young man into the war and sent to the Pacific where he nearly fell victim to Japanese kamikaze pilots and was at one time a prisoner of war of the Japanese and brutally tortured and abused yet remained refreshingly non-racist and spoke out against the internment as being racist and against our murdering and injuring Japanese housewives, babies, toddlers, grandmas, school kids, nurses, etc at Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the Japanese had attacked a military installation and we brutally and viciously acted like barbarians and murdered innocent civilians on purpose.
Jeanne and thousands of other Japanese-Americans, almost all who had been born in the USA and who mostly had never even been to Japan were essentially rounded up like the Nazis rounded up the Jews, based on being of Japanese heritage.
They were herded into desert areas into squalid conditions that would cause a landlord to be deemed a slum lord and held prisoner for years with no charges of any crime leveled against them and no recourse. They lost their homes, businesses, and everything they owned. Jeanne's story is about one family, her family, and what happened to them. I am richer emotionally from having read her story. This book reads like a conversation between friends.
It was like she was talking directly to me. Even after they were freed many just tossed out of the camps after the war with no where to go and everything lost , it was as if there was still barbed wire between them and the rest of society as racism took the place of the barbed wire as a very real barrier they had to overcome.
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