Farewell to Manzanar is Jeanne Wakatsuki's memories of her experiences at Manzanar during WWII. ... Manzanar is a dusty, dirty, windy desert setting with extreme weather conditions. ... Even that first day at Manzanar it was obvious there would be problems, fruit over rice? ... There was no privacy at Manzanar, no place to be alone. ... For the first year the Wakatsuki's were at Manzanar, they had to live without "Papa". ...

• Word Count: 859
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is the true story of a Japanese-American family's detention in California's Manzanar internment camp during World War II. ... She also tells what she took away from Manzanar after it was closed "a feeling of shame and determination to be accepted as an American. ... New School - (Queen Carnival) After leaving Manzanar, Jeanne begins to understand what all her problems meant. ... Jeanne does not want to think about Manzanar, but as she grows, she realizes that her life began and was shaped there. For her to be able ...

• Word Count: 422
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

This family goes through many hardships while living in Manzanar, some of them being having to live in barracks, living with a drunken father, and not eating their traditional foods. In my opinion, "Farewell to Manzanar" is about Japanese-Americans during World War II. More so, it is about Jeanne's experience with her family in Manzanar. Manzanar is one of the camps they were sent to during this time. ...

• Word Count: 201
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is just one of those stories that someone who experienced it wrote down to be remembered. ... Ko Wakatsuki lost everything he had left of his pride and dignity at Manzanar. ... Jeanne Wakatsuki described Manzanar as something of a birthplace. She was able to move past Manzanar's attack on her soul, because she was young enough to define herself apart from Manzanar. ... She was built by Manzanar and her father was killed by it. ...

• Word Count: 762
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

One such book like this , Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston. ... Shortly after that, Jeanne and her family are relocated to the Manzanar camp for the Japanese for the duration of the war. ... For example, unlike the concentration camps, Manzanar allowed people to remain with their families and did not have the awful conditions of the camps in Europe. ... In Conclusion, Farewell to Manzanar is a novel written to educate us about the hardships of the American - Japanese in WWII. ...

• Word Count: 1195
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel, Farewell to Manzanar, an autobiography by Jeanne Wakatuski Houston, her stubborn father demonstrates his pride. ... When the Wakatuski family is released from Manzanar, Papa wants to leave in style. ...

• Word Count: 433
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Imagine your entire family being told they had to pack their bags but only as much as one could carry. Then imagine being taken from your home and bused to an internment camp somewhere out in the middle of the cold and windy desert. According to the United States government, this was being done fo...

• Word Count: 281
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

I read the book "Farewell to Manzanar", by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. This book is about the Japanese internment camps that were set up in America during World War II, and how it affected this particular family. It tells the story of the separation of the family members, hardship...

• Word Count: 921
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In the book of Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston and Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Patillo Beals are all about life challenges between two girls named Jeanne and Melba. ... They were forced to live in a camp called Manzanar and treated them as an inferior class. ... When Jeanne and her family finally leaves Manzanar, she continued going to school. ...

• Word Count: 1066
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The family is soon sent to Manzanar, a Japanese internment camp inland. ... The living quarters do not get better for a long time, but the War Department does send old clothes from World War I so that the people at Manzanar are not so cold. ... There, they always ate meals together, which they do not do at Manzanar. ...

• Word Count: 661
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

I think that a book that is similar to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is Farewell to Manzanar. ... I believe that Maya Angelou was a much better writer than the author of Farewell to Manzanar. ... I remember Farewell to Manzanar being a very boring book, which I wasn't interested in. I would strongly recommend I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings over Farewell to Manzanar any day ...

• Word Count: 1549
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Dear Japanese-American citizens, The war in the 1940's affected nearly everyone in the world. Many lives were lost in battle and many homes were destroyed. The Japanese government chose to attack the United States, at Pearl Harbor, with a great military force. Since that attack and until the e...

• Word Count: 437
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USA Post-Pearl Harbor vs. USA Post-9/11 When the September 11th Tragedy occurred, the American people were devastated. Many sat in front of their television sets watching the horrifying images of the planes hitting the towers over and over again. Others took their aggression out by attacking and in some cases murdering those who looked like they were of Middle Eastern descent. When the World Trade Centers came tumbling down, the news broadcasters publicly stated that this has been the biggest attack on America since Pearl Harbor. ...

• Word Count: 2883
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School