... in the subject of history; a novel can open doors to worlds that one would think are unreachable. It can also act as a time machine and bring you back to a time you can only picture in your mind. One such book like this , Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston. This book is ... a narrative with by Jeanne about her stay at an interment camp for almost four year. The reason she had to stay in camp was because she was a Japanese American during ... First, Jeanne does a good job expressing her goal by noting many incidents in her stay. For example, unlike the co...

• Word Count: 1195
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 201
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

The first weekend in December in 1941, Jeanne is watching her father's sardine ships head out to sea. She and the other women of the community notice the boats returning. The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. Jeanne does not know what this meant at the time, but her father ("Papa") is taken away from her on the grounds that he might be delivering goods and secrets to the Japanese. Jeanne's mother ("Mama") moves her remaining children to Terminal Island, where they live among other Japanese Americans for the first time. There, Jeanne is afraid of the Asians around her, partly because she has ...

• Word Count: 661
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... middle of the cold and windy desert. According to the United States government, this was being done for your own protection. You"ll have to leave your friends, farms, boats, cars and other personal property. This is what happened to the Wakatsuki family and many other Japanese-American citizens as told in the book Farewell to Manzanar. President Franklin D. Roosevelt made this happen ... by signing Executive Order 9066, which authorized the military to carry out the evacuation of thousands of innocent ... Japanese-American people to an unknown territory. They were also considered to be ...

• Word Count: 281
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School