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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? The author Jeanne for //Farewell to Manzanar// has trouble finding her true identity whether it is American or Japanese but toward the middle she starts to figure things out. Her Japanese identity is interfering with her American identity because she always has to live with being from the Japanese origin. She must figure out a way to put her origin aside and still be Japanese. What is the role of non-Japanese characters in Wakatsuki's memoir?

There are very few non-Japanese in this book and they don't really play a huge role in this book. I remember toward the end of the book that she makes friends with a non-Japanese character and that this character would always help Jeanne into clubs and what not. These people don't play a huge role but the ones that they do are important in the authors life.

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? The main character explores prejudice through her experiences with whites before and after the war as well as through her experiences among Japanese Americans at Manzanar. Before she leaves ethnic prejudice largely undeveloped, though she plants the idea of such prejudice through characters such as the unscrupulous secondhand dealer who tries to cheat Mama and the cold teacher in Boyle Heights. Before Manzanar, the prejudice that does surface is undefined and confusing, much as it must have been for her. In fact, she does not directly address the idea of hatred until her family’s arrival at Manzanar, where hatred and fighting, suspicions and accusations occur among the Japanese themselves. She uses events such as the beating of Fred Tayama and the ensuing December Riots to show that a group cannot address the greater issue of prejudice until it deals with internal conflicts.

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1. What aspects of this wikispace do you find most enlightening? Why? The vocabulary was very intriguing which add an interesting appeal 2. How have the authors of this wikispace addressed Jeanne's identity struggle in a different manner than you did? Specify! we dident think about the roles of the non japanese characters in the book 3. How have the authors of this wikispace examined Manzanar in a new way? Quote and detail.they think of manzanare as a creation ofJeanne definition of hate "Before Manzanar, the prejudice that does surface is undefined and confusing, much as it must have been for her. In fact, she does not directly address the idea of hatred until her family’s arrival at Manzanar" ML and PM