Farewell To Manzanar Character Analysis

The two characters are similar in ways with the same perspectives and are in the same historical event. Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, and The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida is about the characters being Japanese, to concentration camps. Due to the fact that they’re in a war between the United States and Japan. The two characters are similar in ways when they both have had their fathers sent to all-male camps or in a prisoner-of-war camp, and both are living in similar house-styles.
There will be two characters talking about how they both had their fathers imprisoned in a camp away from them. The two characters, Ruri and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, have both gone through going to a camp without their fathers.
The two characters, Ruri and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, have similar experiences in the camp, being interned in a camp full of barbed wires. There were barbed wires everywhere keeping the Japanese from leaving without the army’s permission at the middle of the story at the Tanforan Tracks. Uchida says, “When the bus turned to into Tanforan, there were more armed guards at the gate, and I saw barbed wires strung around the entire grounds” (Uchida 26). The barbed wires that strung around the entire grounds made Ruri feel like she is in prison. This shows how Ruri is similar to Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, because it felt like a prison to them. Ruri and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston were imprisoned in a place called “home” until the war is over. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's family drove past barbed-wired fences that made them feel like they are in prison. Wakatsuki Houston says, “We drove past a barbed-wire fence, through a gate, and into an open space where trunks and sacks and packages had been dumped from the baggage trucks that drove out ahead of us” (Wakatsuki Houston 13). Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s family drove past the barbed-wire fence that made them feel like they are in prison. This showed how Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is similar to Ruri, because of she in a camp for Japanese people. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and Ruri are interned in a place that is supposed to keep them safe. These are the two examples that show how Ruri and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston are