Eleanor Roosevelt: Jeanne's Feelings About Her Heritage

Jeanne’s Feelings About Her Heritage
Eleanor Roosevelt was the wife of Franklin D Roosevelt. She was the U.S president from 1933 to 1945. She was mostly involved in racial and social justice which is why she said this about the Japanese. “You gain courage strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror, I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” (Eleanor Roosevelt). Eleanor is pretty much saying that you have to be strong and never give up. If you have lived through some difficult times and you come across another one just always remember …show more content…
For example, when Papa started drinking and was yelling at Mama it could have gotten Jeanne to think that it would be okay for Jeanne to follow her father footsteps. After a while, the Americans were treating the Japanese really bad and this time they went way too far. The Americans were holding posters of a man looking beasts trying to show that those were what the Japanese were, and no one had the right to protest. The posters had a huge letter that spelled out “This is the enemy” which made the Japanese feel very horrible. “I heard my sister say, why do they hate us?” (Houston 15). The Americans made the Japanese feel horrible as they claimed that the Japanese are trying to hurt them even though that was not the case at all. This quote supports my thesis statement a lot because the Americans doing this could have affected Jeanne in a very negative way. If Jeanne was older and she actually knew what these posters meant, she could have gotten really hurt from it and as she grew up she would always think that the Americans were telling the truth about her culture. When the Japanese were finally free to go, Papa did not want to leave the camp because he was worried about his conditions outside of camp. When everyone came to the camps, unfortunately, they had to leave everything behind including their homes and only bring clothes with them. Papa had his own fishing boat and nets but he had to leave it all behind to come to the camp. When it was time to leave Papa became just like the African Americans, no home or a job. “Here in camp, he had shelter” ( Houston 134). In the camps, the Japanese were provided with a house to sleep in at night as well as food to eat, but outside of the camps nobody had anything, no house to go to and they had no jobs or any money, which made it so much harder for the family to decide where