Farewell to Manzanar Q&a
Farewell to Manzanar
Question Chapters 1-22
What did Papa do the night he heard the news?
The night Papa heard the news he burned the flag from Hiroshima, papers, documents, and anything that would show a connection or relation with Japan.
What happened to Papa two weeks later, and how did he react?
Later on, papa was arrested by the FBI. He maintained his dignity and led the agents out of his house without causing any type of chaos or problems.
Why did Mama break all of the plates?
Mama has to sell her china because it is too big to fit in Woody’s car. When a secondhand dealer offers only fifteen dollars for the china, she feels offended and insulted, and she angrily smashes the entire set in front of him.
What happened to the Wakatsuki family?
After her father’s arrest, Jeanne, her mother, and the rest of the family are rounded up and are shipped out to Manzanar, a detention camp in Owens’s Valley in California.
What is Jeanne’s observation of how Mama coped with using the latrines?
It was a humiliation that Mama had a hart time but never got used to it. She cooperated to survive but she still tried to keep her personal privacy.
What happened in the mess halls that changed the families? Why did this happen?
In the mess halls they stopped eating as a family. Granny, the children, everyone went their own way. At a certain point the family became completely disintegrated.
How does Jeanne as an adult see the cane that Papa brought back with him from Fort Lincoln?
She sees the cane as “a sad, homemade version of the samurai sword his grandfather carried in the land around Hiroshima.”
What job did Papa have at Fort Lincoln? Why did he have that job?
He was an interviewer for the Justice Department because he had the advantage to know and speak Japanese and English.
The interrogator asked Papa what he thought of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. What was Papa’s response?
Papa said he was sad for both countries; that the bombing and war were the things
Question Chapters 1-22
What did Papa do the night he heard the news?
The night Papa heard the news he burned the flag from Hiroshima, papers, documents, and anything that would show a connection or relation with Japan.
What happened to Papa two weeks later, and how did he react?
Later on, papa was arrested by the FBI. He maintained his dignity and led the agents out of his house without causing any type of chaos or problems.
Why did Mama break all of the plates?
Mama has to sell her china because it is too big to fit in Woody’s car. When a secondhand dealer offers only fifteen dollars for the china, she feels offended and insulted, and she angrily smashes the entire set in front of him.
What happened to the Wakatsuki family?
After her father’s arrest, Jeanne, her mother, and the rest of the family are rounded up and are shipped out to Manzanar, a detention camp in Owens’s Valley in California.
What is Jeanne’s observation of how Mama coped with using the latrines?
It was a humiliation that Mama had a hart time but never got used to it. She cooperated to survive but she still tried to keep her personal privacy.
What happened in the mess halls that changed the families? Why did this happen?
In the mess halls they stopped eating as a family. Granny, the children, everyone went their own way. At a certain point the family became completely disintegrated.
How does Jeanne as an adult see the cane that Papa brought back with him from Fort Lincoln?
She sees the cane as “a sad, homemade version of the samurai sword his grandfather carried in the land around Hiroshima.”
What job did Papa have at Fort Lincoln? Why did he have that job?
He was an interviewer for the Justice Department because he had the advantage to know and speak Japanese and English.
The interrogator asked Papa what he thought of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. What was Papa’s response?
Papa said he was sad for both countries; that the bombing and war were the things