There are thousands of novels that have been and will be written in history, each of those novels is very unique. The reason for that is that each novel will try to convey something different to the reader. It could be a story, a biography, or something as simple as teaching one how to count. Whatever the purpose of it maybe the novel is an intricate part in shaping society and the world in order to teach us. This is very true in the subject of history; a novel can open doors to worlds that one would think are unreachable. It can also act as a time machine and bring you back to a time you can only picture in your mind. One such book like this , Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston. This book is a narrative with by Jeanne about her stay at an interment camp for almost four year. The reason she had to stay in camp was because she was a Japanese American during World War II. After the Pearl Harbor bombing her father was taken away because he was suspected of aiding the Japanese's. Although, that was not true at all the government was not taking any chances often arresting many Japanese that had boats or planes, like her father. Shortly after that, Jeanne and her family are relocated to the Manzanar camp for the Japanese for the duration of the war. What she was trying to accomplish by writing this book was to show us that those camps were not like the concentration camps of WWII. She also shows the hardships of trying to be accepted after the war and being frowned upon because of your decent. .
First, Jeanne does a good job expressing her goal by noting many incidents in her stay. 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. It was almost like a small town; the kids did go to school and enjoyed many activities that one would enjoy outside of the gate.