What Are Two Important Quotes From Farewell To Manzanar

We know we aren't perfect, that in life we all have done mistakes. How would you feel if your race was judged and put in concentration camps? A place where you only have your parents. A place that looks like a cage. You are isolated from others. No one wants to be like an animal not even an animal deserves to be in a cage. Japanese had no option but to live in concentration camps for 3 years. Throughout Farewell to Manzanar, being brave and not letting other people put them down emerges as an important message in the text. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston talks about her life in the concentration camps and after she left how people saw her. Japanese people went through a lot, American wanted Japanese to fight against their own people. Jeanne was ashamed of being Japanese, but was brave enough to survive and come out of that dark hole and got an apology after 12 years have passed. “Then again, that's how quickly people's perceptions could change. It only took one mistake one stupid decision.” by Siobhan Vivian. We have to think before we decide what to do to make the right choice and not regret it later on.
The United States of America wanted the Japanese to fight with them. People that answered “ NO” to both questions they were called the “ No-No Boys”. In
In the No-No Boys by Nardra Kareem says “One day it got to her and she took her life.” There were japanese out there that didn't survive. It wasn't because they weren't brave enough. They were more fragile. The woman couldnt take it anymore, she couldn't take the words they said about herson. She was very brave to survive World War II but she didn't take more. In addition Kareem states “ Twelve years later, the JACL apologizes for widely vilifying draft resisters.” Japanese lived most of their lives being discriminated knowing that they didn't have the fault. They had to live outside of caps and wait for 12 years to pass so they could live in