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I think that you answered the questions very thuroughly. This wiki was very well done. (JH) very good Kenzie and Jason! you answered the questions very well. (AB)

1. Much of Farewell to Manzanar deals with the idea of 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? Her Japanese identity conflicts with her American identity in many ways. The first is that her heritage is of Japanese origin, but she lives in America. She wants to fit in with all of the other American people, but her father is strongly connected to his Japanese heritage, and her race prevents her from fitting in as well as she would like. Her experiences with prejudice help her to reconcile the two identities by understanding both cultural sides of view, and the racial aspects of the war. 2. What is the role of non-Japanese characters in Wakatsuki's memoir? There were many non-Japanese characters in her memoir and each played a different role in her childhood life. When her family was being forced out of their house at Long Beach the man that was offering to buy her grandmothers china plates for a very low price offended their entire family. Radine played an important role in Jeanne's life by at first stereotyping and belittling her by saying " 'Gee, i didn't know you could speak English.' " (157). But later in Jeanne's life Radine became one of her closest friends. For the most part Americans did not like Jeanne and treated her as if she was inhuman. The only main character in her memoir that treated her with respect was Radine, and that was after she got to know Jeanne better. Another was her teacher. "She was probably the best teacher I've ever had- strict, fair-minded, dedicated to her job." She was treated unfairly and hopefully something this bad will never happen to a minority again. 3. Upon returning to 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 different forms of hatred depicted in Farewell to Manzanar are people in the street steriotyping her as an evil Japanese-American that should return to Japan. At first she didn't know what to think of the camp, and was unaware of the plethora of prejudices against her race. When they returned back to civilization outside of the camp there were many racist comments that were said to her and her family. There were also many signs about the city that were sending racist messages to the towns people.There was also propaganda thrust apon them which was a very unappealing and rude thing to do by the American government. The time of the enternment was very bad on most Japanese-American families and hopefully never happen again.

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Work Cited: Houston, James D. and Jeanne W. Houston. //Farewell to Manzanar.// //New York:// Dell Laurel-Leaf, 1973

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