Farewell to manzanar
I decided to read, Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and JamesD. Houston. This book is about the Japanese internment camps that were set up in America during World War II, and how it affected this particular family. It tells the story of the separation of the family members, hardships, and hatred that they had to live with during this time period. It also helps to open our eyes to the irony of the whole situation, and how our government can contradict themselves over some of the issues we were fighting for. The book tells the story from Jeanne Wakatsuki, the main character, point of view, and how she and her family struggled to make it through this time period in American History. The book is told from Jeanne’s own experiences in her own town, how her peers at school treated her, and what it was like being uprooted from their home and being put into the Japanese internment camp of Manzanar. The book with the news of Pearl Harbor, and the reactions from the Wakatsuki family. It also begins with her father being taken away for supposedly supplying oil to Japanese submarines of the coast while he was fishing. It also goes into some detail on how their neighbors, and people throughout their town tre
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Approximate Word count = 915
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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