Farewell to Manzanar
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Available in both Hard Cover and Paper Back.
Summary:
durnig World War II, Manzanar a comunity was created in the high mountains, it was created in the desert country or california, east of the sierras. .its purpose was to house thousands and thousand of japanese american internees. on of the many families to first arrive at the camp, were the wakatsukis, who weere ordered to leave there fishing buisness at home in long beach and take with them only what they could carry. for Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, a sevon year old at the time, it becamce a way of life where she struggled, manzanar. for her father it was the end ofo his life when he got there. while writing this book jeanne recalls her life at Manzanar the her eyes when she was a child there. she tells about her life during this period. written with her husband, jeanne delivers a powerful first-person account the reveals her search for the meaning to manzanar.
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Student Review
The author is telling what was going on in her life when she was going through the camp process. The book was very boring at some parts and had some sad parts too. This would be a good summer reading book; because it is short and contains a lot of detail. Farwell to Manzanar was an okay book. Although there was a lot of action in the end of the book the beginning of the book was very slow book because it is short, and there is a lot of detail and an overall good story.
Farwell to Manzanar Discussion Guide
Important Quotes
“When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?”
Papa’s life ended at Manzanar... Until this trip I had not been able to admit that my own life really began there.
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