Farewell To Manzanar Analysis

The second world war was not only fought on the frontlines, there was not always an enemy with a face. Prejudice tore apart families, destroyed lives, and lead to murders and deaths. As the Jews in Germany were persecuted, the Japanese were in the United States. Many of these Japanese had lived in the United States all their lives. In Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne W. Houston explains her experiences on an interment camp at Manzanar. The prejudices against the Japanese forced them to move to interment camps. These consisted of, usually, temporary barracks surrounded by barbed wire fence and guard towers. These barracks were about the size of an average classroom and packed with up to six families. If anything, on could assume that the small