Aidans+Farewell+to+manzanar+wikispace

**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?** Jeanne seems to resonate more with her American identity by the way she describes herself also because she was raised there. Most of her more appealing memories come from her non-japanese neighborhood in Ocean Park and her teacher that cried when she left. In fact when she moves to Terminal Island she is frightened of her Japanese neighbors.



Jeanne doesnt connect with her Japanese heritage especially at Manzanar her free time is spent on non japanese things like trying to be Catholic. Tge reason Jeanne feels this diconnection is because she has never visited her country of Japan and doesnt identify well with it. During her time at Manzanar something seems to click with her and ultimately embraces her Japanese heritage.

**What is the role of non-Japanese characters in Wakatsuki's memoir?** The non-japanese characters reinforce the prejudices against the japanese characters. Also some of the characters are caring and non-prejudiced but most of these non-japanese are used as faceless people that are discriminating against the Wakatsukis'. Although the non-japanese are an important part of figuring out the conflict between the sides the characters are supposed to be more focused and inner meaning and self-acceptance most of these non-japanese characters are just used to reinforce that Jeanne needs to accept herself.

In the book Jeanne Faces the prejudice even before the war like the dealer that tried to cheat mama out of her china or Jeannes' teacher in Boyle Heights unlike her teacher in Ocean Park that wept over her leaving. Even during her relocation to Manzanar she expressed prejudice in the novel through accusations also the beating of Fred. Although Jeanne felt that a 'dark cloud" of hatred would descend when Japenese peole left the internment camps she was mistaken because for most people it was a deep-rooted, self contained prejudice that people had instead of fights and riots which is what was expected of Jeanne.
 * 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?**

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1. What aspects of this wikispace do you find most enlightening? Why? The pictures because they fit in. M.E The way you answered the questions because it made more since then most. T.W.&T.T

2. How have the authors of this wikispace addressed Jeanne's identity struggle in a different manner than you did? Specify! He has a different view on this topic because we felt her Japanese identity was getting in the way of her American identity M.E. We agree with Matt and Brady because since she was from Japanese identity it took other privalages away that if she wasnt japanese she would have. T.W.&T.T.

3. How have the authors of this wikispace examined Manzanar in a new way? Quote and detail. We do not think he has done this because he just restates the things that happen in the book and this is totally fine. He said "like being catholic." This is stated in the book. M.E One thing we found was that they used good quotes froom the book and they put in their own opinions. T.W. T.T.