Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

In this essay, the author

• Narrates how she grows up during world war ii in a japanese internment camp.
• Narrates how her father owned two fishing boats, and they lived in a large house.
• Opines that threats to the nation's safety are not difficult to see.
• Explains that jeanne did not know why or where her father had been taken.
• Explains that they assumed she was being sold. they were soon given 48 hrs. to find a new place to live.
• Opines that for now on all families had a collar and duffel bag.
• Explains that they hearded off to some unknown place. this was to be their destiny for the rest of their lives.
• Narrates how she knew that her dad was away and her family was moving a lot.
• Explains that jeanne is a nissei, natural born citizen of the u.s.
• Explains that 6-8 people sharing a 15 by 20 foot space with cot was hell.
• Analyzes how children break down the structure and unity of the church.
• Analyzes how the man seemed to be a changed man. he was again using the cane he had carved years earlier.
• Opines that after being imprisoned, he had great dignity, but now seemed to have lost it.
• Narrates how she always had a room to escape to.
• Narrates how he told her that their family was buddhist and wouldn't allow it.
• Narrates how she took up the baton and wanted acceptance in any way she could find it.
• Opines that he could not expect his children growing up in america.
• Describes the camps, then let us loose with nothing? and how were they to be treated once
• Narrates how she became the first japanese majorette at her school and won beauty queen.
• Analyzes how the woman denied the fact that she was doing this for them not completely for herself.
• Explains that she could now be her, for herself. she didn't have to be the same as them.
• Analyzes how she accepted that part of herself that she tried to forget over the years.
• Describes the reasons for fearing that it might have the same effect on her as it did when she was young.
• Analyzes how she used to hate herself for the way white people would get to her with one.
• Opines that they no longer wanted to lose or have those years erased. having found it, they could say.
• Opines that she is a hero because she took everything that was imposed on her.
• Opines that they enjoyed the book and plan to return to mammoth lakes.
• Describes a dignified man who made all the decisions for the family. he grew up in japan, but left at the age of seventeen.
• Narrates how their father kept their children in line by telling them, ''i'm going to go to school with them.
• Narrates how the 7-year-old's life had been relatively simple until she was forced into a world guarded behind.
• Narrates how she dreamed of the sears roebuck catalogue and referred to it as the same as god.
• Narrates how the camp closures frightened the girl and her parents.
• Narrates how jeanne enrolled in jr. high school and her mother got a cannery job, while her father refused to stoop that low.
• Narrates how a girl said something that haunts her to this day. when asked to read in class, she stood up and read well.
• Explains that later, made her realize that this was how things were going to be. they didn't beat or injure her, they saw she had slanted eyes.
• Narrates how a revelation hit her that none of this really mattered anymore, and wished she had taken odori classes like her father wanted her to.
• Narrates how manzanar was one giant stepping stone she had climbed, and that gave her worth.
• Explains that jeanne was thrown around in a racial slur, but now she can make sense of the things gone wrong in her life.