Farewell To Manzanar Literary Analysis

World War II, also known as the Second World War, involved the clear majority of the world’s countries including a time of horror for Japan. Life became difficult for the Japanese Americans sent to internment camps during World War II and for those who lived in Japan also faced the effects of the war. The internment of the Japanese during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the interior of the country of approximately from 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japan who lived on the Pacific coast. In the novel Farewell to Manzanar by James D. Houston and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston contains an autobiographical memoir of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s wartime and the life in internment camps. Jeanne and her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp with 10,000 other Japanese people, facing the hardships during World War II. …show more content…
The novel centers around the life of a young Japanese girl who got separated from her family and had to survive living in a war zone. She later focuses on the words and love of her family as she hides from both the Japanese and American soldiers, taking risks to steal food and try to survive living in a war zone. Both autobiographical accounts by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and Tomiko Higa both provide poignant narratives of civilian suffering due to total war. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s work displays the American government’s ways of “saving democracy,” and Tomiko Higa’s works shows that the Japanese government’s efforts to “protect the people of Asia” from Western