Flynne+and+Hannah

//Farewell To Manzanar // As the author lost her Japanese identity she discovered her self. She wasn't very proud of her Japanese heritage toward the end of the story, but through her American identity she discovered who she really was. While she deals with the prejudice she realizes that she will never get away from her Japanese heritage. It helps her see that being Japanese makes her through she is, and that will never change. When she went to Manzanar she started to grow. Before she went to Manzanar she was thought of as different and she was dehumanized, but when she got there everyone was in the same situation, no one was different.

The roles of the non-Japanese characters in her book help put the point across to her that she's different. She was told that she couldn't fit in because she was Japanese. In chapter 22 it stated "an old, embittered woman stopped and said, 'Why don't all you dirty Japs go back to Japan!' She spit at us and passed on" (186). This woman really put her down, telling her she didn't belong. There were a lot of instances like that, when they were sent away to the camps and the secondhand dealers came to buy her mother's china, "One of the dealers offered fifteen dollars it...Her eyes blazed up at him...She reached into the red velvet case, took out a dinner plate and hurled it at the floor right in front of his feet" (14). She was so angry for the way she was being treated by the man. The man was talking down to her, so she decidded to show him what she thought of him. ​ When Jeanne returned from Manzanar the hatred she faced were her family being "robbed" (154). They put their items in a storage unit, but unfortunately the warehouse was broken into. Her father also faced a hardship, there was "no record of his fishing boats" (154). The government basically put them back at ground zero. That wasn't the kind of hate Jeanne was expecting. She was ready for "a burst of machine-gun fire at any given moment, or a row of signs saying JAPS GO BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM " (151). There were different forms of hatred, most were prejudice. On pages 159-160 she states, "I also learned out side of school another set of rules prevailed. Choosing friends, for instance, often depended on whether or not I could be invited to their homes, whether their parents would allow this." Jeanne would think it was her fault for being rejected, even though it wasn't. The parets of hher friends was just prejudice, they couldn't accept the fact that she was Japanese, they never got the chance to know her. "Even choosing me as majorette created problems. The band teacher knew I had more experience than anyone else competing that year. He told me so. But he was afraid to use me. He had to go speak to the board, and some of the parents, to see if it was allowable for an Oriental to majorette to represent the highschool in such a visible way" (170). The fact that she was the best majorette didn't matter, the only deciding factor was that she was Japanese. The board didn't want her to represent that school. media type="youtube" key="yQ8wylE0ahg" height="252" width="344" align="right"


 * Evaluation:**

1. What aspects of this wikispace do you find most enlightening? Why? You can tell that they spent a lot of time working on this with all the quotes and the youtube video that they added. (DZ) I find the colorful text most enlightening also by seeing the youtube video and pictures you can tell they put alot of effort in. (km) i like how they incorporated different quotes from the book(MW) 2. How have the authors of this wikispace addressed Jeanne's identity struggle in a different manner than you did? Specify! they explained how difficult it was for her growing up and how she had to deal with people's hatred towards her. How have the authors of this wikispace examined Manzanar in a new way? Quote and detail "When Jeanne returned from Manzanar the hatred she faced were her family being "robbed" We like the way they worded this because it really does describe what they went through and it is a different way to describe her situation in a different way.