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 * //Farewell To Manzanar//:**


 * __Jeanne's struggle with her identity__ **


 * When Jeanne Wakatsuki left the internment camp Maznzanar in 1944 she left with an "odd sense of shame and a fierce determination to be accepted as American." Because Jeanne was of Japanese ancestry, many people expressed great aversion towards her and her family. Jeanne might have felt like she had to be loyal to Japan, but she has lived in America her whole life, so America is her home land. Because she has been looked down upon her whole life, she knows that her true identity is Japanese.


 * __What is the role of non-Japanese characters in Wakatsuki's memoir?__ **

** __What are the different forms of hatred depicted in //Farewell to Manzanar,// and how do they manifest themselves as propaganda or other?__ **
 * The role of the non-Japanese character, was that the ones Jeanne meet were very kind to her, and most became her friends. A young girl named Radine, Radines mother is one of the assistant troop leaders of her girl scout troop and Jeanne is interested in becoming a girl scout but because Jeanne is Japanese Radines mother will not allow her to.so she is rejected from girl scouts but Jeanne doesnt blame Radine for her mom rejecting her. Radine and Jeanne become close friends and Radine defends Jeanne in public when kids tease her.

to violence. Instead of violence, Jeanne experiences rejection. People dont want to be around the Japanese. They want them to go back to to Japan. When she goes to school everyone is astounded that she can even speak. They think of her as un-human. The war propaganda de-humanized the Japanese and the Japanese nation, it made them an evil to be hated.
 * In Manzanar the Japanese are told of an extreme racism in the west coast that has turned [[image:japs_propagnaas.jpg width="296" height="391" align="right"]]

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 Manzanar,// and how do they manifest themselves as propaganda or other?

[(2008)] [|historymatters.gmu.edu]