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    Has Grinning Behind His Mustache. “In war time wet and dry burn together” After Attacked Japanese Air force to Pearl Harbor‚ USA government decided to internment Japanese- American people to keep them in a camp called Manzanare in the book Farewell To Manzanar by James D.Houston‚discipe and explan the people life in the camp during world war two‚ Woody is one of the character that we read about him in this book. He has very important and effective role in his family. Woody said: “yes Papa‚ when

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    lasting effects on the prisoners were starkly different. The books Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand show the stories of the Wakatsuki family in America’s Japanese internment camp Manzanar and Louie Zamperini in the Japanese POW camps (despite Zamperini being sent to multiple camps‚ Naoetsu

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    To begin with‚ In the novel farewell to Manzanar by James D. Houston and the Article “War changed my dad” by Michelle Crough‚ the two authors use of imagery is different because‚ they both talk about a type of war but “war changed my dad” the imagery is more calm then Manzanar. An example of this is in the Article “when they got home‚ Peter surprised everyone by grabbing his kids‚ giving them a big hug.” Additionally‚In the novel farewell to Manzanar by Janna Wakatok and the article “War changed

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    Farewell to Manzanar Book Review " What is Pearl Harbor?"(4). The book I read was Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki. This is what started World War II. During these times Japanese people were treated like animals. They were forced to live in internment camps throughout Executive Order 9066. Executive Order 9066 was approved by Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt‚ this order ordered the military to place Japanese or Japanese Americans into these internment camps. This is where this story takes

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    Life Experiences in Farewell to Manzanar The book‚ Farewell to Manzanar was the story of a young Japanese girl coming of age in the interment camp located in Owens Valley‚ California. Less than two months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor‚ President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066‚ which stated that the War Department had the right to declare which people were a threat to the country‚ and move them wherever they so pleased1. Since the West Coast had a large number of Japanese immigrants

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    Wakatsuki vs. Lee Jeanne Wakatsuki and Harper Lee represent minority groups as a platoon of soldiers whose everyday goal is to live another day; however‚ whether these soldiers have complete freedom differs between the authors stories. In Farewell to Manzanar‚ Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston illustrates her family as trapped behind a fence‚ and stripped of their freedom. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee describes the African Americans as people who viewed as people of less value. In both cases‚ the

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    The two characters are similar in ways with the same perspectives and are in the same historical event. Farewell to Manzanar‚ by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston‚ and The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida is about the characters being Japanese‚ to concentration camps. Due to the fact that they’re in a war between the United States and Japan. The two characters are similar in ways when they both have had their fathers sent to all-male camps or in a prisoner-of-war camp‚ and both are living in

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    Mantesh Mantesh 10-Minute Home Repairs More Than 200 Fast‚ Effective Fixes You Can Do Yourself JERRI FARRIS Mantesh Text © 2006 by Fair Winds Press First published in the USA in 2006 by Fair Winds Press‚ a member of Quayside Publishing Group 33 Commercial Street Gloucester‚ MA 01930 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized‚ in any form or by any means‚ electronic or mechanical‚ without prior permission in writing from the publisher. 10 09

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    In the early year of 1942‚ the families of Japanese people are being ordered to start a move to Manzanar‚ California; the Wakatsuki family is one of them. Many Japanese accept the move because they are afraid of Caucasian aggression‚ but some simply see it as an adventure. Families have to put on identification number tags on their collars. Riding on buses to Manzanar‚ Jeanne falls asleep on the bus‚ nearly half of which is filled with her relatives‚ and wakes up to the “setting sun and the yellow

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    Farewell to Manzanar is one of the best autobiographical memoirs written by Jeanne Houston outlining the Japanese family incarceration in the internment during the wartime. The book brings out the long chain of racial prejudice that rocked the Japanese American during the war. It is a narration of the agonies faced by the Japanese families’ consequent to the war. It is true racial stereotyping was used during the wartime to discriminate against the Japanese Americans. Being a Japanese family‚ the

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