The Experience of Life Farewell to Manzanar is a book about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. The book focuses on the experiences of a Japanese American family who was taken to the Manzanar internment camp in 1942. The story narrates the family’s struggles to survive the hostile world filled with racial tensions outside and inside the internment camp. Also, the book describes the life of a seven-year-old Japanese American child who grow up behind fences like a prisoner in the United States. As a whole, the book describes the life of a family inside a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is an American writer who studied sociology
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The sufferings caused by their horrible experiences mark them for life making them hostile towards society. That is why, the struggles of the Japanese people to get back society is an example of American assimilation. Furthermore, the author wants to reveal her life experiences during the war time, so future generations can learn about the history of this country in detail from a different perspective. One of the purpose of this book is to give readers the chance to feel in a way what the author experienced by her detail narration of her life through vivid descriptions. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston states that, “For new generations of readers, this story is often their first exposure to the wartime internment and its human costs” (206). The author wants to share her experience in war time through writing, so readers that have no knowledge whatsoever about the internment era can learn in great detail what happen inside the camps. Also, offers a new opening for readers to understand history as well as to witness the struggles that people face to settle in a new land. Its purpose is to remind readers of the events that happened back then since people tend to forget as time passes. Another goal of the
The sufferings caused by their horrible experiences mark them for life making them hostile towards society. That is why, the struggles of the Japanese people to get back society is an example of American assimilation. Furthermore, the author wants to reveal her life experiences during the war time, so future generations can learn about the history of this country in detail from a different perspective. One of the purpose of this book is to give readers the chance to feel in a way what the author experienced by her detail narration of her life through vivid descriptions. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston states that, “For new generations of readers, this story is often their first exposure to the wartime internment and its human costs” (206). The author wants to share her experience in war time through writing, so readers that have no knowledge whatsoever about the internment era can learn in great detail what happen inside the camps. Also, offers a new opening for readers to understand history as well as to witness the struggles that people face to settle in a new land. Its purpose is to remind readers of the events that happened back then since people tend to forget as time passes. Another goal of the