Aside from trying to explain what the camp was like, she also explains what life after the camp was. She talks the many struggles of trying to be accepted and often not getting accepted. She was just as good as any of her non Japanese friends, but yet she always got passed over when it came to things like getting asked out on dates. I think that the audience she is writing this to is the general public that would like to learn something about the Japanese during WWII. .
Second, I think that Jeanne covered a variety of topics in her book. She goes from talking about how the Japanese Immigrants were treated, to her stay at Manazar, and life after. While she does have many topics of talk about she does organize them well and makes them easy to read and understand. She splits the book into three parts, one dealing with a certain issues and ties them together well. She covers a time span of about thirty years or so, first starting out in the 1940's when she arrived at the camp and ended in the 1970's when she revisits the camp. The author I feel likes to emphasize the social and ethic views in the novel. She talks mainly about show society shunned the Japanese and how she herself had to grow up with that. Many times she questions why this is happening to her only to find out years later after she grows up that it was for discrimination and fear. There are instances in the novel where she questions on thing she does not understand only to tell us years after all of this finally makes sense. I think that after she gets out of camp and goes through school the social aspect is really emphized. She talks about the many problems that the normal teenager endures, but hers are a lot worst because of her background. .
Third, Jeanne does a good job organizing her novel. In the time frames that book takes place in there are many things happening at once. I think she did the right thing by separating the book into three parts, each party dealing with a certain event in time.
