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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 with two? Most of //**Farewell to Manzanar**// deals with the author's struggle to discover her identity. Her Japanese identity conflict with her American identity in several ways because of how the people from the outside world treat based on her appearance and her background. In //**Farewell to Manzanar**//, Jeanne struggles to accept that people hate her because she is Japanese Awmerican. She tries to prove people that she is just like other people only with a Japanese American background by getting involved in activities like baton twirling, ballet, and other school activities. When she gets involved in these activities, she quits most of them because she got scared by the look of the ballet dancer's legs and the appearance itself. The one activity that the author stuck to was the baton twirling becasue it was one thing that Jeanne felt that she could do really well. Her experience with prejudice help her to reconcile with two by getting involved in different school activities, making friends that are non-Japanese once she got out of the internment camp, and eventually learn to accept for who she is.

2. What is the role of non-Japanese characters in Wakatsuki's memoir? The role of the non-Japanese characters in Wakatsuki's memoir is to take control of the Japanese Americans. Their goal is to get rid of the Japanese people by putting up signs or symbols to tell the Japanese to go back to where they came from. They get their ways when the non-Japanese people see that the Japanese people are getting on the bus to go to the internment camp. In Wakatsuki's memoir, the non-Japanese characters are the bad people that don't accept for who Japanese people are.

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? Type in the content of your page here. Upon returning from Manazanar, Jeanne finds that the hatred she must face is very different from the "dark clouc" she imagined would descend on her. The different forms of hatred that are depicted in Farewell to Manzanar is the reaction of the non-Japanese characters, when they see that the Wakatsuki family returns from the internment camp. When Jeanne and her family were preparing to leave the camp, Jeanne didn't know what the people would think of her as. Even her family didn't know what the people would expect of them; "we had been unprepared and that just deepened the shock of what we found (page 152)." When they came into California, the family just went on with their businesses. Once Jeanne entered her school years, she befriended a girl named Radine who had commented on her reading. Radine felt like she had to protect Jeanne from people staring at her because of her oriental looks. One good example is when Radine and Jeanne walked home together, Radine says "what are you looking at? She's an American citizen. She's got as much right as anybody to walk around on the street (page 152)!"