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... , they are fed terrible food that they politely pick at. For their living quarters, they are crowded into two small rooms. Her older brothers set up blankets as partitions for sleeping. The rooms are not very good defenses against the elements. The cold wind and harsh sand blow in during the night. When the family awakes, they are covered in sand ... ...
This extraordinary novel tells about a Japanese family that struggles to remain a family while living in an internment camp. The only thing that gave them the endurance and heart to go on was their national anthem. "May thy peaceful reign last long. May it last for thousands of years, Until this tiny stone will grow into a massive rock, and the moss will cover it deep and thick." This family goes through many hardships while living in Manzanar, some of them being having to live in barracks, living with a drunken father, and not eating their traditional foods. In my opinion, "Farewell to Manzan...
... on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the Executive Order 9066, which permitted the military to circumvent the constitutional safeguards of American citizens in the name of national defense. Which basically meant that they can throw all the Japanese in America into internment camps. These camps devastated the lives of many Japanese-Americans, it was like their lives ... ...
