Research Paper On Farewell To Manzanar
Farewell to Manzanar
Jeanne Wakatsuki was a seven year old girl who survived The Bombing of Pearl Harbor. She was a normal young girl. She liked to watch the boats dock and go to school. However, one thing was missing in her life: her identity. She was a Japanese girl who didn’t embrace her culture. After 7 years of a normal life, Jeanne was forced to move to a Japanese ghetto on Terminal Island in Hawaii. She felt so out of place from what I could tell, and didn’t fit in because, again, she didn’t understand who she was. In this essay I will be explaining her journey to finding who she was.
The main issue for Jeanne was not knowing who she was and understanding her ethnicity. It was very hard for her when she was moved to the ghetto because she was surrounded by her own people and did not fit in because was exposed to American life more than Japanese life. The sad thing was she only had one little thing in common with them, which was eating rice and mandarin oranges. That one little food was all she had to connect her with her own ethnicity. It took her 10 years, leaving her home, and bad living conditions to really find who she was and to embrace her ethnicity. It was not an easy journey because she had been treated terribly. …show more content…
In the end she gets out of the camp and does find who she is.
It may have been hard but it was worth it. Jeanne was a Japanese-American girl. She was different, sweet, smart and kind. She started thinking of her ancestry and that eventually made her a friend. Again this life was hard but she did find her true identity and she finally understood her
culture
She grew up to go to college and be the first of her family to graduate. She found her face became a problem because people would make prejudice remarks. She wrote this book and had a family of a non- Japanese husband and three kids. She later went and visited Manzanar.
I thought this book was a great way to start out the school year because as teens we don’t know who we really are yet and I made a connection because of that. Jeanne Wakatasuki was the author of this book. This was a true story on her time in the Bombing of Pearl Harbor. She was the first of her family to graduate college. She did marry a non-japanese person. She had three children and they all visited Manzanar.
Through the book you learn about identity. I loved this book and found it touching. I loved going through Jeanne’s journey of finding who she is. I have found myself in situations trying to learn who I am and I thought this book was great for my age because teens are still learning about themselves. It took Jeanne at least ten years, moving to a ghetto, and living in a camp to really realize who she was. She had a tough life, from feeling unequal, to wishing to be someone else, to almost losing her dad. In the end she does find a way out. Jeanne does find herself.
Jeanne Wakatsuki was a seven year old girl who survived The Bombing of Pearl Harbor. She was a normal young girl. She liked to watch the boats dock and go to school. However, one thing was missing in her life: her identity. She was a Japanese girl who didn’t embrace her culture. After 7 years of a normal life, Jeanne was forced to move to a Japanese ghetto on Terminal Island in Hawaii. She felt so out of place from what I could tell, and didn’t fit in because, again, she didn’t understand who she was. In this essay I will be explaining her journey to finding who she was.
The main issue for Jeanne was not knowing who she was and understanding her ethnicity. It was very hard for her when she was moved to the ghetto because she was surrounded by her own people and did not fit in because was exposed to American life more than Japanese life. The sad thing was she only had one little thing in common with them, which was eating rice and mandarin oranges. That one little food was all she had to connect her with her own ethnicity. It took her 10 years, leaving her home, and bad living conditions to really find who she was and to embrace her ethnicity. It was not an easy journey because she had been treated terribly. …show more content…
In the end she gets out of the camp and does find who she is.
It may have been hard but it was worth it. Jeanne was a Japanese-American girl. She was different, sweet, smart and kind. She started thinking of her ancestry and that eventually made her a friend. Again this life was hard but she did find her true identity and she finally understood her
culture
She grew up to go to college and be the first of her family to graduate. She found her face became a problem because people would make prejudice remarks. She wrote this book and had a family of a non- Japanese husband and three kids. She later went and visited Manzanar.
I thought this book was a great way to start out the school year because as teens we don’t know who we really are yet and I made a connection because of that. Jeanne Wakatasuki was the author of this book. This was a true story on her time in the Bombing of Pearl Harbor. She was the first of her family to graduate college. She did marry a non-japanese person. She had three children and they all visited Manzanar.
Through the book you learn about identity. I loved this book and found it touching. I loved going through Jeanne’s journey of finding who she is. I have found myself in situations trying to learn who I am and I thought this book was great for my age because teens are still learning about themselves. It took Jeanne at least ten years, moving to a ghetto, and living in a camp to really realize who she was. She had a tough life, from feeling unequal, to wishing to be someone else, to almost losing her dad. In the end she does find a way out. Jeanne does find herself.