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// Farewell To Manzanar  by: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston   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? // 

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

//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 Manzana ////r, and how do they manifest themselves as propaganda or other? //  1. In //Farewell to Manzanar// Jeanne and her family struggle in many ways to find their identity. One way they were effected during the story is when her sister asked "Why do they hate us?" This was brought to attention about how they felt about their struggles and how they thought everyone hated them. An example is when Jeanne started school at her new home in Cabrillo homes. She was new to the school that day and nervous, the teacher asked if she was comfortable reading, she said yes. She then started to read from a story. After that one girl, Radine, said "Gee, I didn't know you could speak English." Also when she tried out to be the carnival queen. She dressed exotic and everyone was cheering for her, but when it was time to count the votes teachers were concerned about voting her the queen. They worried about what parents would think if they voted a Japanese girl for queen. Jeanne learned through all these experiences that she needed to accept the way she was and the way things were in those days. 2. The role of non-Japanese characters in Wakatsuki's memoir was a big part of the Wakatsuki family and Jeanne. Their family experienced many prejudice acts while in the camp and outside of the camp. For example, one is when they are arriving to Los Angeles they saw many discriminating signs such as "Japs Go Back Where You Came From." Many questions arose in their heads about their relationship and whether the Americans would accept them. Another example, is when the Americans took away Papa's fishing license and boat, when this happened, Papa was distraught and he said, "And his boats and nets were gone, he knew-confiscated or stolen." Jeanne had to deal with the whole engaging hard tasks that she had to suffer through, although not all of the non Japanese were prejudice against the Japanese. Such as Jeanne's friend, Radine that stood up for her when she saw people staring at Jeanne. It would also let her to see the nice and rude side of the different non Japanese.  3. In Farewell to Manzanar there is many things that can be viewed to see the hatred that Jeanne has been through and she has to manage her hatred through the different hardships. One that Jeanne experienced was when she imagined the "dark cloud." But that wasn't her actual reality, she faced more arduous life experiences. For example, one would be when Jeanne had to go to the doctors and then she was given a shot that made her sick, then she experienced the effects that she had to deal with to manage getting used to. She was filled with hatred and she knew that there were things that are hard to deal with in Manzanar. Another example, is when she had to live in the house with her father and she found the more time she spent in the house the more time she hated living there. Her father caused her to feel a lot of pain through the suffering he put her through, and the terror he prevented her to go though. media type="youtube" key="1OjLpjCJfGE" height="259" width="319" align="left" This is a video of Manzanar during World War II. 

Works Cited: Photo 1: Lange Dorothea //War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlemet//, 1942, San Francisco, Calif. (Sutter and Octavia St.) Web. 11 March 2010 http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5b69n9pm/?layout=metadata&brand=calisphere <span style="color: #ca2f2f; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"> Photo 2: Lange Dorothea //War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement//, 1942, Oakland, Calif. (13th and Franklin Streets) Web. 11 March 2010 http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft367nb1xv/?layout=metadata&brand=calisphere

Photo 3: Iwata Jack, //Doctor and Patient//, Japanese National Museum, 1944, Los Angele <span style="color: #ca2f2f; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">s Calif. Web. 11 March 2010 http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3779n63q/?layout=metadata&brand=calisphere

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;">**Evaluation:**

1. What aspects of this wikispace do you find most enlightening? Why? 2. How have the authors of this wikispace addressed Jeanne's identity struggle in a different manner than you did? Specify! 3. How have the authors of this wikispace examined Manzanar in a new way? Quote and detail.

1 We liked the color coding of the questions and the answers. We liked this because it made them easy to read. 2 We think you answered the question to well, compared to our answered. 3 They used multiple quotes and expanded on their answers. T.W. T.T.

1.We liked how detailed they were in there responses and there color coding 2. They answered the questions in better detail and explanations then we did. 3. They used good detail and found a lot of quotes in all of their answers.