Summary Of Farewell To Manzanar

Farewell to Manzanar, by James D. Huston and Jeanne Wakatsuki Huston. Is a personal eye-witnessed account of life behind the bars of Manzanar, a Japanese interment camp located in Southern California at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. During the deadest war in United States history World War 2. During this time many Japanese-Americans were placed behind bars, similar to concentration camps that people of Jewish faith were placed in all over Europe. The United States government feared that Japanese-Americans, like Jeanne’s family would become informants to the Japanese Army. Helping them to win the war. To counter act this fear the government passes the Executive Order 9066 in 1942 a year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Which allowed the War Department to build military holding areas in the western

Over the short time that followed 10 holding camps were built, later these would be called interment camps. Holding over 110,000 Japanese Americans, most whom were born in the United States and were legal U.S. citizens. Most of these camps were built to mimic each other using the same blue prints, often using very cheap materials and cost effective designs. Camps were place out in the “Boondocks” often in very hot and humid places, with little resources to offer, making life very difficult.

The author James D. Huston and Jeanne Wakatsuki Huston overall propose in writing Farewell to Manzanar was to, convey the hardship that Japanese-Americans faced while, being imprisoned in internment camps all across the western United States during the World War 2. The camps conditions were almost unspeakable in the sense that the house were placed in were extremely small about 16 feet wide and 20 feet long. If you think about it that about the size of your living room, and if you were lucky other family members would share that space, but most often complete strangers would share that