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Book Review Of Incarceration At Manzanar

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The book contains Jeanne Wakatsuki‘s wartime autobiographical memoir during the incarceration at Manzanar, which was a Japanese-American confinement camp. It takes us through how her father was arrested by the FBI who allegedly claimed that their father was supplying the Japanese with oil that’s why they had attacked the Pearl Harbor, thus he was imprisoned at Fort Lincoln in North Dakota. This book brings out the experience the Japanese-American underwent when the Americans were at war with the Japanese and what happened in the aftermath of the war. Not only does she bring out what her family underwent but also she tries to incorporate what her fellow internments underwent and how some bit of justice shone in their way after a long time of …show more content…

First, the book is a memoir from a female author who narrates her experience at the internment camp and life after the camp. The three parts make it possible for the reader to see the flow of information. This is vivid for example, in the first part of the book, the author narrates and tells us more about her family, and during this part that she tells us how her father was arrested when they were just settling in the United States of America. In the next chapters she narrates the different ways in which life was hard in the internment camps and even how they were made to take loyalty oaths so that they can be assimilated back to the outside community. In the last part, it mainly talks about the events that took place in the aftermath of the war and when the truth was coming out and justice being served to some …show more content…

All she sees is the hard work of her mom, defiance of her father and all the comments that were being thrown at them when things were really bad. To her, she claimed that place was like an archeological site since it brings the history of what happened to her family, the internes and herself. Summing up, the book is majorly the memories of the author and some of the events that took place during that time. It raises themes like racism, war, and oppression among many more. These were some of the things that happened during that time, and generally, the book is all about history and the life of the Japanese that lived in the United States of America when America was at war with

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