Igoe+and+Nelson+Manzanar+Text+Project

Jeanne's struggle to discover her identity deals with prejudice. Being Japanese limited what she wanted to participate in, and what she wanted to strive for. In the text she wants to get involved with many things like baton twirling, ballet dancing, girl scouts ect. Jeanne asked her friend if she could "belong" in Girl Scouts and her friend said "'Gee,' she said her friendly face suddenly a mask. 'I don't know but we can sure find out. Mama's the new assistant troop leader.' And then the next day, 'Gee Jeannie, no. I'm //really// sorry.'"(161) It was all because of her race which made her fill with rage. The conflict is that her Japanese identity makes it so she can't participate in the things she would want to do, which dehumanizes her. It takes her american citizen rights away. She put two and two together by realizing how her life is going to be in the future and dealing with it by proving people wrong. The non-Japanese characters show how prejudice they were to the actual Japanese people. It shows the hatred in them and how the little kids still didn't really know why they had to be mean to them. They also show how each side felt, the Japanese felt scared and were quiet, and timid. The non-Japanese were mean and didn't get what their life was like. Even to day people aren't necessarily prejudice to Japanese but all different races and it is sad. Jeanne thought that they would isolate her more, but she found that people saw her just not as a person. The hatred was strong and had many signs (propaganda) telling them to go home. Jeanne didn't realize how bad it really was until she grew up.
 * 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?**
 * 1.What is the role of non-Japanese characters in Wakatsuki's memoir?**[[image:file:///tmp/moz-screenshot.jpg]][[image:file:///tmp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg]][[image:file:///tmp/moz-screenshot-2.jpg]]
 * 1) **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?**