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1. In the novel Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne, the main character, struggle with her Japanese identity and her American identity. Her parents want her to believe in Buddhism and Japanese ideas. However, Jeanne wants to believe in Christianity. When Jeanne was inside the camp she had her mind set on becoming a Christian. “Papa stepped in just before my baptism day.” (pg 42) Jeanne later on said she appreciated it. Jeanne also dealt with her identity when she tested different clubs and tried to find the clubs she liked “In addition to the regular school sessions and the recreation program, classes of every kind were being offered all over camp: singing, acting, trumpet playing, tap-dancing, plus traditional Japanese arts like needle work, judo, and kendo. The first class I attended was in baton twirling, taught by a cubby girl about fourteen named Nancy.”(pg 108) when she visited lessons by an old woman about a traditional dance called //odor,i// she watches the class and when the old woman bowed to her at the end of the lesson she “I rushed out of there, back to more familiar surroundings.”(pg 110) again she conflicts with her father when she wants to convert to Catholicism but her father forbids her and she says “ Late afternoons, practicing my baton in the firebreak, angrily I would throw him into the air and watch him twirl, and catch him, and throw him high, again and again and again.”(pg 116)

2. In the Wakatsuki memoir, non-Japanese plaid an important role. When Jeanne's mom was selling her valuables, the dealers want to buy them cheap. “One of the dealers offered her fifteen dollars for it. She said it was a full setting for twelve and was at least worth two hundred.” (pg 14-15) There wasn't anything else the Japanese could do with them so they could get away with it. Several of the non-Japanese were ignorant of the Japanese way of life, such as they prepared their food. “Among the Japanese, of course, rice is never eaten with sweet foods, only with salty or savory flavors. Few of us could eat such a mixture.” (pg 20) When Jeanne returned to school outside the camp, the children expected less of her. After Jeanne read out loud in front of they class, another student exclaimed out loud that she was surprised the Jeanne could speak English. “…began to read. I made no mistakes. When I finished, a pretty blond girl in from of me said, quite innocently, ‘Gee, I didn’t know you could speak English.’”(pg 157) Although many non-Japanese weren't pleasant to them, some were. The nuns who tried to convert Jeanne to Christianity were very pleasant to her. She also became good friends with a non-Japanese girl her age who told off anyone who gave her weird looks or made fun of her. 3. Many Americans were still resented Japanese-Americans. There were still groups who fought against them. “…new groups had sprung up during the warm with the specific purpose of preventing anyone of Japanese descent from returning to the coast.” (pg 127) Jeanne's father was also taken advantage of and sold a piece of junk car. “…it broke down about every hundred miles or so.” (pg 150)People still started at them when they walked in the street. They feared the things they would see " there he suddenly sobered up, and his mood began to match what mine had been since we drove out the main gate, as if what we had all been dreading so long was finally to appear, at any moment, without watning-a burst of machine-gun fire, of a fow of Burma-Shave signs sayingJAPS GO BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM"

Video Clip: @http://www.janm.org/exhibits/breed/movies/depart7.mov

Works Cited library.thinkquest.org. //Japanese Interment Camps Activities.// 11 March 2010.

Lange, Dorothea. //Notice all the Japanese Persons.// 11 March 2010.

Jane McGrath. //How Stuff Works.// 11 March 2010.

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

Evaluation Questions 1. What aspects of this wikispace do you find most enlightening? Why?

What enlightened us about this wikispace was that they used colorful font which made us more interested in reading it. (N.S. and T.S.)


 * The use of color caught my eye and makes the wikipspace more fun to read. R.E. **

2. How have the authors of this wikispace addressed Jeanne's identity struggle in a different manner than you did? Specify!

In our opinion, they answered the questions and everything a lot better then we did. They went into depth and extreme detail. (N.s and T.S)


 * The authors used quotes and a video to address Jeannes struggle. I also used qoutes but not a video. R.E. **

3. How have the authors of this wikispace examined Manzanar in a new way? Quote and detail

They examined Manzanar by including good pictures and videos to show what life would have been like. (N.S. and T.S.)


 * I just thought of Manzanar as an internment camp. The authors of this wikispace thought of Manzanar as more than just a camp. R.E. **