Farewell To Manzanar Literary Analysis

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In the book farewell to manzanar Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family faced adversity after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. All japanese descent or even japanese americans was cast from their homes and put into this camp (Concentration) called Manzanar.
Jeanne alongside her father mother and other siblings evacuated the west coast home after the Pearl Harbor bombing. Jeanne father was sent to war but not to the battlefield he read to his companions and almost lost his leg. Meanwhile in the camp Jeanne and her mother , siblings were crowded in a barrack barely was able to eat and was very hot on summer days and very cold on winter days. Honestly i don't think the characters can change the outcome of what happened or the reason of adversity. In today's

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