Recently, my class has just finished watching the Farewell to Manzanar film adaptation. Farewell to Manzanar is a true story by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston. We have sought differences and similarities in both the adaptation and the book. The book in a nutshell is about a young girl, Jeanne, whose life changes as she moves to an immigration camp which is known as Manzanar which is located near Long Beach, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Her family faces many complications as lives are lost along a long rocky road of depression and a fight for the perseverance of freedom and hope. The story and the film both have the main plot which I mentioned above. They both assist the readers to know what the camp life was like a near century ago. As my class was watching the film adaptation, we noticed some differences among the book and the film. For example, in the book there are ten kids unlike the film where five kids were only mentioned. I have evidence for this because in the picture the family took in the beginning of the film, there were only five kids. Also, in the film, a boy known as...
mention in our society. One of these internment camps was Manzanar—a hastily built community in the high desert mountains of California. The sole purpose of Manzanar was to house thousands of Japanese Americans who were held captive by their own country. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston was interned at Manzanar when she was seven years old with her family. Their only crime was being of Japanese descent. In her memoir, “Farewell to Manzanar,” Mrs. Wakatsuki Houston transcribes a powerful, heart breaking
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