What Are Two Important Quotes From Farewell To Manzanar

We know we aren't perfect, that in life we all have done mistakes. How would you feel if your race was judged and put in concentration camps? A place where you only have your parents. A place that looks like a cage. You are isolated from others. No one wants to be like an animal not even an animal deserves to be in a cage. Japanese had no option but to live in concentration camps for 3 years. Throughout Farewell to Manzanar, being brave and not letting other people put them down emerges as an important message in the text. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston talks about her life in the concentration camps and after she left how people saw her. Japanese people went through a lot, American wanted Japanese to fight against their own people. Jeanne was ashamed of being Japanese, but was brave enough to survive and come out of that dark hole and got an apology after 12 years have passed. “Then again, that's how quickly people's perceptions could change. It only took one mistake one stupid decision.” by Siobhan Vivian. We have to think before we decide what to do to make the right choice and not regret it later on.
The United States of America wanted the Japanese to fight with them. People that answered “ NO” to both questions they were called the “ No-No Boys”. In
the article “ Remember the No-No Boys” by Narda Kareem says “ The no-no boys received their name by answering no to two questions on the survey.” people who answered this two questions were brave enough to stand up for themselves other people answer yes, they went to war to fight against there own kind. The No-No Boys were sent somewhere else away from their families. Also Kareem said “But have we been given such freedom, such liberty, such justice, such protection? NO!!” The No-No Boys didn't want to fight for a state that took away their own right or a state where they aren't being treated equality. They are being isolated by the people that need their help now.
People were ashamed of being Japanese but they were brave enough to survive and come out of that dark hole in Farewell to Manzanar By Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston says” As i came to understand what Manzanar had meant it gradually filled me with shame for being a person guilty for something enormous enough to deserve that kind of treatment (185).” She felt ashamed which she shouldn't have to feel that. She was very young to know what happen. Jeanne was little girl that didn't have the fault for what the government choose to do against the United States of America. Wakatsuki states “ He (papa) wasn't the same man something terrible had happened to him in North Dakota(45).” Around that time they accused papa for trespassing illegal oil. He went to prison and survived it. Papa changed but was still alive to see the ending of World War II.
They were brave enough to survive and get an apology 12 years later.
In the No-No Boys by Nardra Kareem says “One day it got to her and she took her life.” There were japanese out there that didn't survive. It wasn't because they weren't brave enough. They were more fragile. The woman couldnt take it anymore, she couldn't take the words they said about herson. She was very brave to survive World War II but she didn't take more. In addition Kareem states “ Twelve years later, the JACL apologizes for widely vilifying draft resisters.” Japanese lived most of their lives being discriminated knowing that they didn't have the fault. They had to live outside of caps and wait for 12 years to pass so they could live in
peace,
We have the right to stand up for what we know is right. The government believes they had the right to take Japanese right away. We created the government it should work for us and not for what they believe. The government needs to consider about others opinion not only about what they think. We didn't know what Japanese Went through but at this point we consider them brave because they went through many obstacles during that time, but they survived the internment camps. They had the courage to come out of the camps and confront the real world that put them in those camps. As humans we make mistakes but we have to be careful some mistakes are good because you learn from them. Those big mistakes cause cause more. Japanese went went through a lot just to know they didn't have nothing to do with World War II.