Farewell To Manzanar Summary
In the year of 1942, over 110,000 Japanese americans In the non-fiction story, Farewell to Manzanar, By Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D. Houston, Jeanne wakatsuki tells their experiences being trapped inside the Japanese internment camps. A theme in farwell to manzanar is that it is not always easy accepting the truth through internal and external conflict.
One example of how external conflict in the story proves the theme when Jeanne realizes that papa was right about the sarong after she told him that he was wrong the narrator states, “Papa had been right about the sarong”(181). Papa told Jeanne that the only reason why she is popular is because she wears the sarong. Jeanne originally thought that what papa said was incorrect but later realizes
One example of how external conflict in the story proves the theme when Jeanne realizes that papa was right about the sarong after she told him that he was wrong the narrator states, “Papa had been right about the sarong”(181). Papa told Jeanne that the only reason why she is popular is because she wears the sarong. Jeanne originally thought that what papa said was incorrect but later realizes