Amelia+and+Cassie-Farewell+to+Manzanar

 =Amelia and Cassie's Farewell to Manzanar Wikispace=

 Her American identity is rooted in the fact that she was born and raised in America. While she feels conflicted with her Japanese identity through her race and ancestry. The internment camps that they were located in were in the USA, which resembles the American identity. She felt stable, comfortable, and she didn't want to leave because it would be like started a new life. "Gee, I didn't know you could speak English", said Radine. This was based on her Japanese identity that no other American understood. She knows that she is Japanese, but she is also American. She does fit in the school because she is both American and Japanese. **2. What is the role of non-Japanese Americans in Waktsuki's memoir?** "It was the first time I had lived among other Japanese, or gone to school with them, and I was terrified all the time."(p11) At age seven, Wakatsuki moved to Terminal Island, where she wasn't used to seeing Oriental faces. That was before the war and going to Manzanar. Although after the war it was another story, "In addition to the traditionally racist organizations like the American Legion and The Native Sons of The Golden West, who had been agitating against the west-coast Japanese for decades, new groups had sprung up during the war, with the specific purpose of preventing anyone of Japanese decent from returning to the coast." After the war she imagined white people abusing or revolting against oriental people for moving into their neighborhoods. "Japs go back where you came from." These hurtful sign slogans like the one presented at the top of this page are what Jeanne had to see and experience. The headlines of the last few months had imprinted in my mind the word HATE." All she knew from leaving Manzanar was that she wasn't being accepted because of her background and who she is. '"I don't understand all this hate in the world.'" She didn't understand because she hadn't been around this. She felt as if she did nothing wrong and that she shouldn't be hated on. "I saw it as a dark, amorphous cloud that would descend from above and enclose us forever." She thought that this "cloud" would drop out of the sky and save her. But back to reality Jeanne, this didn't happen. She had to stick up for herself and ignore all the hatred.
 * 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?**
 * 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?**

1. What aspects of this wikispace do you find most enlightening? Why? I liked how you explained the picture you put under the questions and also had a lot of quotes to explain your thinking.This helped me understand what you were trying to explain E.C. In wikispaces a lot can happen and you brought out the key things in the reading do to wikispace. D.S. 2. How have the authors of this wikispace addressed Jeanne's identity struggle in a different manner than you did? Specify! You showed her identity through the word hate and how she was treated by other Americans.This word really expressed the feelings showed by the other school mates of Jeanne E.C. The author mentioned internment camps when i only talked about her American and Japanese ansecerty. D.S. 3. How have the authors of this wikispace examined Manzanar in a new way? Quote and detail. The authors of this looked deeper in between the words of the book to find what Jeanne was really feeling. You looked for the deeper meanings of her new identity.E.C. The author looked at the deeper meaning in the text. D.S.