Farewell To Manzanar Pap A Man Without A Country

Papa, a man without a country “Sometimes we have to stop being scared and just go for it. Either it will work or it won’t. That’s life.” Most people, who have experienced some hard situations in their lives, have been helped by others to deal with these difficulties, and this motivated them to grow. When we are facing hard conditions and everything seems out of control, we must keep cool and have many positive feelings to continue, in the best way. We must try to learn how to control our behavior in tough situations. If we can deal with our situations, we can overcome difficulties easily with confidence. To give up in tough situations is the worst thing because we lose our identity in the battle of life like in the story of Farewell to Manzanar
All of them are a symbol of persistence. This is one of the most effective stories that shows how war can change humans, their life, and their ranks. In Manzanar Papa is an American Japanese who was a strong character, but could not teach and encourage people to persevere through life’s problems. He was a person who could never actually recover from this harm. He was a proud and independent man who changed not only his physical strength and lifestyle, but also his manner, behavior, and relation in Manzanar. He lost his job, home, and everything that he had before. Papa who was over 50 years old, tall and thin was a proud hard worker. He went to a military school for four years and did not continue it because he hated marching. As a young man, he was irresponsible, arrogant, and insecure. He was from the samurai class with the Japanese culture, but he left Japan because he was ashamed of his family class. At first, when he came to America, he was a farmer, and then a successful fisherman who was also physically strong before the war. He had two boats, and had a certificate in fishing. Papa who was a strong man before never gave up and tried to solve the problems instead of looking at
But during and after the war, they did not have a home. After he was arrested, his money was tight, and he worried of his family and their well doing. He was so disappointed, frustrated and tired. He did not want to live in a neighborhood with other Japanese American because he did not like to be labeled or grouped in such a way. He looked terrible when he returned from the FBI. Jeanne said, “He had been gone 9 months. He had aged ten years. He looked over 60, gaunt, wilted as his shirt, underweight, learning on that cane and favoring his right leg” (Wakatsuki Houston, 46). When Papa was captured, he did not have any knowledge of what would come of him or his family and that played a large role on his family. The family had difficult situations in Manzanar that they had never experienced before. During Papa’s absence, Woody, his 24 year-old son, tried to help the family in different ways. Woody tried to improve their condition by fixing everything. Manzanar was an ending for Papa but it was a kind of awakening or birthplace for Jeanne. They are not all around the table to have dinner like in the past. Papa could not continue the same job that he had before the war. He was not the same person with the same abilities. Papa had become weak, learning how to be a cook, a mechanic, a general handyman, and he learned many skills that later allowed him to support his large family. “He tried so many