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====In the book Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne deals with several struggles with her identity. In the book her Japanese identity begins to conflict with her American identity because she is being treated as if she is a Japanese citizen, which weren't very respected in the U.S.A. She begins to have second thoughts on who she really is. Japanese? Or American? Her experience with prejudice helps her finally decide that she really is only who she can be. She cannot only be Japanese or just American. She decides that she is what she is, a Japanese American.==== A woman in her "room" at one of the camps shown below.

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====In the book there are other chararters that are not Japanese, but are mentioned and talked about in the book. They also play a very important role in the book. The role of these characters is to help Jeanne descover her real identity and also they are around to help move the plot with their experiences with the main charaters, such as Jeanne. These characters help also shape the way the other characters might act towards them, but it might not have helped Jeanne as much as we might like to think.====

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====Upon returning from Manzanar, Jeanne feels that the hatred that she must face is a very different foe than she imagined. Jeanne has many different forms of hatred upon her, and the rest of the Japanese americans. One of those forms is the Americans fearing what they do not know. After Pearl Harbor many Americans had only some idea on what the Japanese could do, and it scared them to think that someone is stronger than them. To make them feel good about themselves many Americans posted propaganda and other malicious posters and advertisments. This helped the Americans feel satisfied and the spite for the Japanese to rise. The Japanese were surrounded by hatred and loathing words, only to be put in camps, almost like zoo animals. Jeanne was also subjugated to this hatred and despair. Another form of hatred was just bullying. Propaganda also contributed to this and helped it grow. Propaganda almost seemed like a way for the Americans at home to get back at the "Japanese" by insulting the Japanese Americans who might only be of Japanese heritage. Even the great Dr. Suess who is now a successful children's book author paritipated in propaganda at that time. ====

Examples of Japanese propaganda above.