Manzanar Case Study Answers

1. Because the Wakatsuki family is of Japanese descent, they are forcibly brought into Manzanar after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Once they get there, they are faced with circumstances that no human should face after being forced out of their homes and old lives and into an unknown terrain that diminishes every last bit of pride and dignity they had worked for. One morning, Mama Wakes up to find her family covered in sand from the sandstorm that had happened the night before. Mama gets Woody to cover up the open boards and has the family clean up the barrack into something more livable. Outside the barrack there are other hardships to endure. The family has their meals served in the “chow line”, they are then separated and not able to have