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**1. Much of //Farewell to Manzanar// deals with Jeanne's struggle to discover her identity. How does her Japanese identity conflict with her American identity? How does her experience with prejudice help her to reconcile the two?** =Throughout Jeanne's whole life as a Japanese American, born and raised in the states, everyone saw her and treated her differently based on her heritage. It was hard for her to get this concept of being different from other white families as a child. When she finally was allowed to leave the internment camp to be free, she was not accepted by society. Jeanne onetime said, "I wouldn't be faced with physical attack, or with overt shows of hatred. Rather, I would be seen as someone foreign, or as someone other than American or perhaps not be seen at all." Even kids at school saw her as just another Jap. One of the comments that was said to her was on her first day of school since the big move was after she had gotten done reading a book out loud, a girl told her, "Gee, I didn't know you could speak English. Jeanne at 11 years old, was shocked by this comment and couldn't believe that a person could regard her in such a way." Over time having to except her Japanese ancestry, she started blaming herself for the way people treated her. She wanted to fit in but couldn't. During her ruff first days, she even said she wanted to be invisible. But like her brother she had the will to prove herself to everyone around her that she has the same free rights as every other american citizen. This was challenging and really took an emotional toll on her. Although she joined every after school activities she was allowed it still wasn't enough. She knew she still wanted to fit in with other activities that were non-school related. When she first tried to join girl scouts, expectedly they turned her down. Jeanne blamed herself and was ashamed of her japanese ancestry. Instead of consulting the mean hurtful rejections, she would take them out on herself and soon became emocionless to it. Finally there was an opertunity were boyscouts just happen to need 3 baton twirlers and jeanne was the perfect fit. she already was talented from taking lessons in the camp and now this was the perfect time to show them she could fit in. I believe that this is when Jeanne found herself and saw who she wanted to be, and doing things she actually loved to do and was finally excepted. = =media type="youtube" key="yQ8wylE0ahg" height="333" width="401" media type="youtube" key="65zZUjZShq8" height="326" width="382" =

= = = = = = 2. What is the role of non-Japanese characters in Wakatsuki's memoir?

white people were always a part of Jeanne's life. But they were always doubtful and always seemed to represent a form of authority, or "upper class". they treated Jeanne, her family, and all japs as non American or even uh-human.


 * 1) **3. Upon returning from Manzanar, Jeanne finds that the hatred she must face is very different from the “dark cloud” she imagined would descend on her. What are the different forms of hatred depicted in //Farewell to Manzanar,// and how do they manifest themselves as propaganda or other?**


 * When Jeanne, her family, and all the other Japanese Americans returned from Manzanar they were expecting a world that had turned violent with hatred and racism towards Japanese Americans. The real world was very different from what they had expected and prepared for. " In our isolated world we had over prepared for shows of abuse". (pg.152) In the camps, Japanese Americans were told that the racisim and hatred hat turned into violence, when really the racisim wasn't to obvious. Racisim was mostly just that Japanese Americans were more ignored, and shut out from normal culture in America. Such as, they wernt aloud to enter clubs or really do any thing that involved other non japanese children. Like when she asked her friend if she could join the girl scout club that she was apart of, she was not aloud to. This a kindof hidden form of racism because she wasnt told flat out no, her friends mom tried to cover up why she wasnt aloud in. But the underlined thought behind why she wasnt let in is because she was from japanese decent. Jannie was also not let in, and was not aloud to participate in many of her schools positions. All of the kids around her would judge her by the way she looked, and by the way japanese are generalized by the propaganda that everyone of them had seen. A girl was even suprised that she could speak english, when she had never even talked to Jannie. The white comunity after the war had been brainwashed to believe that all japanese were monsters. They were brainwashed by all the bilboards and signs that speued hate to the Japanese comunity. The propaganda had changed the minds of Americans.**



1. What aspects of this wikispace do you find most enlightening? Why? you have freedom. ~kenzie and jason 2. How have the authors of this wikispace addressed Jeanne's identity struggle in a different manner than you did? Specify! they used pictures. ~kenzie and jason 3. How have the authors of this wikispace examined Manzanar in a new way? Quote and detail. they authors examined manzanar by using examples from the text. those examples are