... 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 World ... First, Jeanne does a good job expressing her goal by noting many incidents in her stay. For example, unlike the c...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• 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
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• Grade Level: High School