Farewell to Manzana is a novel that was published in 1917. By Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. The book explains the experiences of Jean Wakatsuki and her family before and during their imprisonment at the Manzana camp due to the United states governments internment of Japanese American during world war II. The author Wakatsuki wrote the book to narrate the unjustice behavior of the Japanese and Japanese American he wrote it as a political racism in Americas past. Also to let the reader knows how the internment camps were designed.
“ I smiled and sat down, suddenly aware of what being of Japanese ancestry was going to be like. I wouldn’t be faced with physical attack, or with overt shows of hatred. Rather I would be seen as someone foreign, or as someone other than American or perhaps not be seen at all” (158). Jeanne comes to realize the true nature of prejudice in double impulse after her classmate Radine expresses surprise at Jeanne ability to speak English.
Before war Jeanne do thinks about prejudice and those not understand the meaning but Radines reaction force her to recognize that hatred is not what she imagined what would happen to her after the camp. But it is a undertone in everyday interaction.
“ mama would quickly subordinate her own desires to those of the family or the community, because she knew cooperation was the only way to survive. At the same time placed a high premium on personal privacy, respected if in others and insisted upon it for herself .
almost everyone at Manzanar had inherited this pair of traits from the generations before them who who had leaned to live in a small, crowded country like Japan” (32-33). “A common master plan” describe mama’s reluctant to use the partition less toilets and was connected her to the issues of Japanese identity. “ when your mother and father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting”(64). This was from the fort Lincoln an interview in which papa use a metaphor to explain the difficult situation of war between the United states and Japan. The (Issei) Japanese – American who left japan for greater opportunities offered in other countries, still had strong ties to their Japanese ancestry and saw japan as their mother land while United States was their adopted home, and even though they were not American citizen, they valued the opportunities that citizenship brought for their Nisie children.
The war put the Issei in an impossible situation, for they could not declare loyalty to one country without jeopardizing their relationship to the other. papa question describe the difficulty that such things as the loyalty oath and the accusations of a military interrogator that is presented to him and other Issei. The author criticize prejudice between Japanese and American which really convincw my opinion. The author also criticize the war between United states and Japanese. How the author criticize mama first reluctant to use public toilet but later cooperate to survive the camp is so great.
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