Jeanne Wakatsuki, along with her husband James D. Houston, narrate the experiences that Wakatsuki and her family underwent when they were evacuated into an internment camp called Manzanar. In the section that was cited, the authors described the living conditions at the camp and how Wakatsuki’s family coped with sharing the space with each other as well as strangers. The intended audience for the book includes those interested in the lives of Japanese-Americans that were forced into internment camps while the United States fought Japan in World War II. Due to the fact the book is written by someone who personally experienced life at an internment camp, details about daily living, such as the fact they were issued, “steel army cots, two brown army blankets each, and some mattress covers,” are plentiful throughout the book. Such details hold the attention of those that wish to know more about what it was like to live in Manzanar. The authors’ purpose for writing the book is to share the life-changing and often arduous experiences that Wakatsuki, her family, and the other families who were sent to internment camps withstood. They wrote, “All they had to use for room dividers were those army blankets…they argued about noise at night—the parents wanted their boys asleep by 9:00 p.m.” Despite being taken away from their homes and being forced …show more content…
Wakatsuki writes about those who, “left to harvest sugar beets in Idaho,” and the fact that, “It was grueling work up there, and wages were pitiful….” Feelings of indignation are wrenched from readers due to horrible circumstances that those living in Manzanar must have endured if it caused some of them to move to where most people would not wish to live. Pity is invoked due to the realization that life would be horrible in either