...In the story “Farewell to Manzanar” by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Jeanne tells about what happened to her family in the internment camps in the U.S.A. in 1942. With the time between both the time of internment and the time she wrote it, some people believe the memories she helps were altered in some way. Yet, by Jeanne considering other people’s memories while writing the story as well as understanding her own thoughts at the time, Jeanne shows us these memories are truly hers and not altered in some form. While most of the memories are from Jeanne’s own mind, she used insights from the others in her family while writing the story. For example, she wrote small “chapters” from what happened to her brother in Japan and her father’s past as well. To make sure of certain parts of the story, she and her husband had to “rely on a good deal besides [her] own recollections” (x). Recollecting these memories from friends, family and even those she did not know, Jeanne finds a new understanding of what really happened at camp as well as connect her own memories to make...
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...Farewell to Manzanar 1. Executive Order 9066, signed by president Roosevelt, gives the war department authority to remove people from west coast military areas who might be a threat to the war efforts or national security. Rumors also began to spread about relocation for the Japanese Americans. The government’s reason for this enforcement was for their protection. It was a sense of relief for them, “moving, under what appeared to be governments protection, to an area less directly threatened by the war seemed not such a bad idea at all (17).” Jeanne describes the Japanese Americans initial reaction to be fearful yet having acceptance. “These were mainly days of quiet, desperate waiting for what seemed at the time inevitable (16).” After just moving, the government orders them all to move again. 2....
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...Imagine putting yourself in a scenario where extreme racial discrimination was in action and you were being taken into an internment camp, whether you were pleaded guilty or not. This was reality for the majority of Japanese Americans not too long ago. These people went through things in life that in present day, we could view as unimaginable. If we were to put ourselves in those scenarios, the main response would be, “this is easier said than done.” In the memoir Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston describes the injustice committed against the 110,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry who were interred by America during World War 2. The internment camps treated the Japanese Americans very poorly. The living conditions they were experiencing at the time were detrimental to their health. In chapter four, page twenty two, the book states, “Food would spoil from being left out too long.” This is just one of many factors that contributed to the effect of malnourished health from internment. Another injustice regarding health would be that...
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...“What Is Pearl Harbor?” In chapter one of Farewell to Manzanar, we are introduced to the narrator, Jeanne, and her family, Papa, Mama, and Jeanne’s two older brothers, Bill and Woody. This book starts out on a Sunday in December of 1941 and focuses mostly on Papa who was born in Japan but moved to Santa Monica, CA. Papa was a fisherman and Bill and Woody were crewmembers on his ship. On that Sunday in December, they went on a fishing trip but returned very quickly, which was unusual. Then, everyone out on the dock, including Mama and Jeanne heard someone shouting that the Japanese had just bombed Pearl Harbor. That night when Papa returned, he burned everything he owned that suggested that he still had a connection to Japan. However, this did him no good. The FBI were out to get the Japanese living in California, especially people like Papa with a fishing license. Sure enough, two weeks later Papa was arrested by the FBI for delivering oil to Japanese submarines. His family didn’t see him for a whole year. 2. Shikata Ga Nai This chapter focuses on Jeanne and her family, after Papa is arrested. Shortly after the arrest, Mama moves the family the Terminal Island, where Jeanne’s older brother Woody was living. Mama felt more comfortable on Terminal Island because there were many other Japanese immigrants living there....
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...CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA An Interpretive History TENTH EDITION James J. Rawls Instructor of History Diablo Valley College Walton Bean Late Professor of History University of California, Berkeley TM TM CALIFORNIA: AN INTERPRETIVE HISTORY, TENTH EDITION Published by McGraw-Hill, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Previous editions © 2008, 2003, and 1998. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. Some ancillaries, including electronic and print components, may not be available to customers outside the United States. This book is printed on acid-free paper. 1234567890 QFR/QFR 10987654321 ISBN: 978-0-07-340696-1 MHID: 0-07-340696-1 Vice President & Editor-in-Chief: Michael Ryan Vice President EDP/Central Publishing Services: Kimberly Meriwether David Publisher: Christopher Freitag Sponsoring Editor: Matthew Busbridge Executive Marketing Manager: Pamela S. Cooper Editorial Coordinator: Nikki Weissman Project Manager: Erin Melloy Design Coordinator: Margarite Reynolds Cover Designer: Carole Lawson Cover Image: Albert Bierstadt, American (born...
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