Theme Of Farewell To Manzanar

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston wrote Farewell to Manzanar. It is an autobiographical memoir of the author's confinement at Manzanar, which was a Japanese-American internment camp. The book is based on the events which happened during the time of the America and Japan dispute, as well what happened to the Japanese families’ who were resident in the United States of America. It is written by Houston to recollect, as well as helps to represent what happened at the time to the well-settled Japanese families in the doubt of disloyalty. In this book, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston argues by remembering all the major and minor effects of the war on her family, which consisted of her parents, grandmother, four brothers and five sisters.

Houston wrote this book

She writes about the incarceration of her and other Japanese families in the USA at that time. This quote is a reflection of the thoughts that Jeanne had as a child about the arrest of her father, “But, like Papa's arrest, not much could be done ahead of time. There were four of us kids still young enough to be living with Mama, plus Granny, her mother, sixty-five then, speaking no English, and nearly blind. Mama didn't know where else she could get work, and we had nowhere else to move to. On February 25 the choice was made for us. We were given forty-eight hours to clear out. (1.2.7)” That quote in so many words expressed that no matter what was going on at that time, life had to keep going. Life would not be at a standstill because her father had been arrested. When Papa returned to his family after spending one year imprisoned, a lot of things changed about him. The change was major because of all the suffering, torture and pain he endured while being a prisoner. While there he was interrogated or called disloyal and dishonest. This would affect the way Papa thought after being released. After the family’s arrival in Manzanar, Papa tried his best decrease