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Title: Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment by James D. Houston, Jeanne Houston ISBN: 0-553-27258-6 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1983 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.69 (105 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Farewell to Manzanar
Comment: Farewell to Manzanar is the extraordinary book co-written by a Japanese American woman who was only seven when Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese in 1941. Jeanne Wakatsuki, along with 10,000 other Japanese Americans, was uprooted and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp in Owens Valley, one of two such camps located in California. This true story covers a family attempting to adjust to, then recover from, forced internment within the United States.
It is not difficult now to look back on the forced internment of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II, and clearly see that it was an unacceptable choice. It is unthinkable that the United States resorted to what so closely resembled a concentration camp. It was highly destructive to their family unit and their culture. Nor does it appear that any real strategy was developed for re-integrating these people into society after their encampment. The only benefit may have been, that due to high resentment towards the Japanese during WWII, even those residing peacefully within our Country, these Japanese Americans remained safe from being targeted for acts of violence due to overall anti-Japanese sentiment.
Although the story jumped around a little too much, Farewell to Manzanar was effective in telling the story through individual experience. For the children, like the co-author at the time of encampment, the time at Manzanar was not tolerable. But for most adults, it was nearly unbearable. But these strong people managed to cope as best they could; finding work within their confinement, allowing them to bring in a small salary, shoring up their poorly built barracks to withstand the weather, partitioning them for a small sense of privacy, designing rock gardens to try and beautify their stark environment and to retain some sense of their culture.
At times, the tenseness caused these people to turn against each other, and they were sometimes as hard on each other as citizens on the outside might have been to them. Retaining honor was socially vital to these people, and helping Americans was often seen as traitorous. Generally, they accepted those in charge of the encampment. The only significant uprising was in December of 1942, at which time two internees were killed, and ten were wounded by gunfire from U.S. Army Military Police.
Farewell to Manzanar was helpful towards learning about Japanese American encampment within United States during World War II. It imparted a sense of their transition to encampment, their daily lives there, and their difficult re-integration. This story not only reflected the realistic and negative side, but it also reflected the strength of these people, their sense of honor, and their ability to cope. It would be interesting to go back and see what would have happened if different choices had been made; what if any difference it would have made for Jeanne, how the Father's life would have played out, how the Japanese Americans would have been treated within society. The correlation to the difficult transition of black slaves at the end of the Civil War was thought provoking. As a Country, it is hoped that from viewing our past mistakes, we will learn from them, thereby preventing the same from happening again in the future.
Rating: 3
Summary: Farewell to Manzanar
Comment: the novel Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wskatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. this is the most bitterness book that we'ver ever read. gut it was kind of not that interestingto read. the book is mostly about world war II when Jeanne's family had to stay in a camp whith other Japanese people. then it took place when the war was over. the way she escribe this is really great. we could even picture ourself in the book with Jeanne. this book could take us back to history but it's not that interested. we would give her 3 stars for trying because no history could be interesting fot teenager like this book.
Rating: 2
Summary: Farewell to Manzanar
Comment: First off, let me state that I read this book for an English class in the 8th grade. Just because I had to read it for a class doesn't mean I hurried through it, nor does it mean I automatically assumed it would be terrible. I did not enjoy the book as much as I could have, but I did not hate it.
I thought that the author, Jeanne Wakatsuke, did not stay on track through out the story. The story would jump around from time to time and completely go off the suject they were previously talking about. Her and her family's story was moving, yet the author could have explained it in a better way. She made even the happiest of her times at Manzanar terribly depressing, but bad times seem not that bad.
I also wished she explained the other characters in more detail. Throughout the book she would talk about characters, and you would not know much about them, and what you did know was vague. Another complaint was that this story ended abruptly, with the last scene was her father buying a car, but the rest of the ending was explained fairly early in the book.
I thought that the story explained the Japanese internemt camps extremely well, and explained an important subject in American History that is not that known about.
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Title: I am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment : (ALA Notable Children's Book, Horn Book Fanfare Honor Book) by Jerry Stanley ISBN: 0517885514 Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 26 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience by Lawson Fusao Inada, California Historical Society, Patricia Wakida, William M. Hohri ISBN: 1890771309 Publisher: Heyday Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad by Bebe Moore Campbell ISBN: 0425174743 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 12 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros ISBN: 0679734775 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Legend of Fire Horse Woman by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki-Houston ISBN: 0758204558 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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