Farewell To Manzanar
WWII was a war fought between world powers. There were many acts done to people that were inhumane; the torturing of minority groups was commonplace practice during WWII. One minority group that was targeted was people with Japanese ancestry. America was at war with Japan. The American people as a whole feared that Japanese Americans would become spies for Imperial Japan, so they ripped them from their homes and their lives, imprisoning them in internment camps across the United States without a trial for crimes they feared they might commit. In the events leading up to their eventual incarceration, those put in internment camps had to sacrifice their homes and belongings; anything that they could not carry had to be sold. The people who were
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One story like this is Jeanne’s story, which she tells of in her book, Farewell to Manzanar. Jeanne explains exactly how hard her life was, and depicts a horrid tale of life in Manzanar. Jeanne references is how her life changed, how it was almost as if she had three separate lives: life before Manzanar, life in Manzanar, and life after Manzanar. Her life before Manzanar was well-structured, everybody knew their job and they did it. She had routine and order; like how every Sunday the women in her family waved off the men to sea so they could fish (Houston 3-5). Order like this did not exist in in Manzanar, it was chaotic. This is just another example of how careless the government was when they made the camps (Houston 30). Life in the camps was tough, but life after being released was not easy either. Japanese Americans lost most, if not all of their personal belongings, and they had little to nothing left when they were let out. Jeanne’s parents had trouble finding jobs, and Jeanne and her family had never been so separated before; however, now the majority of her family was spread out across the United States (Houston 38). She tries to continue being optimistic, and she gets excited about going back to a real school. The problem ends up being that Jeanne really isn’t accepted as either part of who she is, society will not let her. Later on in her life, she ends up finding peace, but even then, she still remembers how badly being imprisoned affected her life
One story like this is Jeanne’s story, which she tells of in her book, Farewell to Manzanar. Jeanne explains exactly how hard her life was, and depicts a horrid tale of life in Manzanar. Jeanne references is how her life changed, how it was almost as if she had three separate lives: life before Manzanar, life in Manzanar, and life after Manzanar. Her life before Manzanar was well-structured, everybody knew their job and they did it. She had routine and order; like how every Sunday the women in her family waved off the men to sea so they could fish (Houston 3-5). Order like this did not exist in in Manzanar, it was chaotic. This is just another example of how careless the government was when they made the camps (Houston 30). Life in the camps was tough, but life after being released was not easy either. Japanese Americans lost most, if not all of their personal belongings, and they had little to nothing left when they were let out. Jeanne’s parents had trouble finding jobs, and Jeanne and her family had never been so separated before; however, now the majority of her family was spread out across the United States (Houston 38). She tries to continue being optimistic, and she gets excited about going back to a real school. The problem ends up being that Jeanne really isn’t accepted as either part of who she is, society will not let her. Later on in her life, she ends up finding peace, but even then, she still remembers how badly being imprisoned affected her life