Farewell To Manzanar Themes

Two different groups of people kept in prison like camps for years, and lived on opposite ends of the world. The people in these camps led. The life within the camps was challenging for both to live in. The people of the Japanese and Jewish internment camps were both held against their will, but they had very different experiences within their camps.
The life within the camp was an adjustment for both groups of people. In the book Night they talk about the only food they ate being small rations of soup and bread. Throughout Night Elie Wiesel the author discusses how prized food was and how limited the people were to it. The lack of sustenances caused deaths throughout the camps from starvation. This is unlike the people of Manzanar who were always fed as much as they wanted even if the food wasn’t superb. In the book farewell to Manzanar the author talks about their deserts being fruit mixed with rice, and other odd creations. The life within Manzanar did allow people to eat until they were satisfied. …show more content…
In the book Farewell to the Manzanar the author discusses daily life in the camps and living somewhat of a normal like encapsulated in a square mile area. Jeanne went to school in Manzanar, and her mother had a job that paid in the camp. In the Story Night the author tells a much different story about life in the camp which was torturous. The people of Auschwitz were starved beaten and killed. There was no normalcy inside Auschwitz. Elie and his father were both sent to work at jobs where they were not paid, and their reward for working was not being killed. However biggest stand out difference was the gas chambers and killing factories inside Auschwitz. In the Manzanar camps there were no killings or mass