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    A Study Guide for Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's "Farewell to Manzanar"
    A Study Guide for Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's "Farewell to Manzanar"
    A Study Guide for Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's "Farewell to Manzanar"
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    A Study Guide for Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's "Farewell to Manzanar"

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    A Study Guide for Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's "Farewell to Manzanar," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Themes for Students: Race and Prejudice. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Themes for Students: Race and Prejudice for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 20, 2016
    ISBN9781535823159
    A Study Guide for Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's "Farewell to Manzanar"

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      A Study Guide for Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's "Farewell to Manzanar" - Gale

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      Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience during and after the World War II Internment

      James D. Houston and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

      1973

      Introduction

      Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience during and after the World War II Internment, the memoir that Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston coauthored with her husband, James D. Houston, in 1973 and dedicated to her deceased parents and brother, presents a vivid sequence of episodes illustrating the disastrous effects of racial prejudice on law-abiding, patriotic Japanese Americans during World War II. Beginning with the announcement of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Jeanne (the narrator) shares a flood of painful memories and reflections about her own family and her Japanese American neighbors in Southern California. Jeanne recalls the frightening events leading up to her family's forced evacuation to Manzanar Internment Camp when she was only seven years old. She also shares her impressions of her father's imprisonment at Fort Lincoln, near Bismarck, North Dakota (for suspicion as an enemy spy), her brother's meeting with Japanese relatives in Hiroshima after the bombing of that city, and her own challenges as a young Japanese American girl living in the 1940s and 1950s. But the central action of her story takes place at Manzanar, near the Sierra Nevada Mountains, 225 miles north of Long Beach, California.

      As scene after tragic scene of daily life unfolds at the internment camp, readers gain insight into the tremendous physical, economic, and psychological challenges faced by internees. Jeanne reflects upon the most serious consequences of these wartime challenges: a disintegration of family unity and a loss of personal identity. As a result of his internment, the once-proud Ko Wakatsuki, Jeanne's father, is transformed from a multitalented, hardworking patriarch of a large family to a broken man, ultimately dependent upon his wife to pay all of their bills. Meanwhile, Ko's son Woody is transformed from an obedient child into an independent young man who risks his father's rejection in order to join the military so that he might prove his loyalty to the same nation that imprisoned him. Equally transformed, Jeanne's mother abandons the role of submissive housewife to become the family breadwinner. For young Jeanne, the Manzanar experience introduces her to a strange new world of personalities far beyond that of her nuclear family. Throughout her years

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