Cara ErnstHistory 1302 3A1Mrs. Celeste12 October 2017Book Critique on Farewell to ManzanarThe book “Farewell to Manzanar” by Jeanne Wakatsuki & James D. Houston is a detailed story of a young Asian girl going through tough times. It is clear in the book the young girl who narrates it does not comprehend the seriousness of what is going on she says “I didn’t understand this. Hadn’t we arrived” (17)? This little Japanese girl and her family were sent to an internment camp in the dessert of California during World War II. The details of what happened to her family members and other Japanese families during these war times in America, are documented in this book. The author writes this book to show how it truly felt to be Asian in America at this
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She probably felt that it needed to come to light and be the voice for other Asian Americans . She is no way bashes the U.S. but really just explains the tragedy she and others went through. It is important that she wrote this book for society that did not go through these experiences to know what really happened and to be able to sympathize, because they are hearing it from a personal point of view. Reading about her life before and during the times of the war is heartbreaking. Her father was taken away at the start of World War II and sent to a camp in North Dakota isolated from his family. She goes from talking about her nice house in ocean park with great family meals. To being in a little shack in the desert. “We woke up early, shivering and coated with dust” (21), for a little 7 year old girl and her siblings to have to live like that is disturbing. She then goes on to explain daily life in the camps. Things like the long lines at the mess hall and not having any wayto get an education at the beginning of her stay at Manzanar. Eventually a school is built however, there is a catholic chapel that Jeanne clung
She probably felt that it needed to come to light and be the voice for other Asian Americans . She is no way bashes the U.S. but really just explains the tragedy she and others went through. It is important that she wrote this book for society that did not go through these experiences to know what really happened and to be able to sympathize, because they are hearing it from a personal point of view. Reading about her life before and during the times of the war is heartbreaking. Her father was taken away at the start of World War II and sent to a camp in North Dakota isolated from his family. She goes from talking about her nice house in ocean park with great family meals. To being in a little shack in the desert. “We woke up early, shivering and coated with dust” (21), for a little 7 year old girl and her siblings to have to live like that is disturbing. She then goes on to explain daily life in the camps. Things like the long lines at the mess hall and not having any wayto get an education at the beginning of her stay at Manzanar. Eventually a school is built however, there is a catholic chapel that Jeanne clung