Farewell Manzamar essays

Farewell Manzamar essays The book that I read is Farewell to Manzanar. A true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment. This is a story of Jeanne Wakatsuki, her father Ko, her mother Riku and her brothers and sisters from the experience of the internment at Manzanar camp where they stayed for 3 1/2 years. On December 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Ko, Jeannes Father burned everything that he had brought from Hiroshima that suggested he had some connection with his country, Japan, where he attended military school until the age of seventeen. Ko was a fisherman; he was arrested because he was accused of delivering oil to Japanese submarines. He looked like the enemy and was sent to Bismarck, North Dakota and imprisoned at Fort Lincoln. This was the beginning of a terrible and desperate time for Jeannes family. Before the attack, they lived in Ocean Park, near Santa Monica. In February the Navy decided to clear terminal Islands because it was dangerous having Orientals so close to the Long Beach Naval Station, therefore, they gave them Forty- eight hours to abandon the area. The American Friend services helped them to Public attitudes toward the Japanese in California changed, anti Japanese American racism surfaced since the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The government ordered them to move to the first permanent camp MANZANAR. On March 25, 1942 evacuees began to arrive, over 10,000 Japanese from Southern California were interned. Jeanne was seven years old, all twelve members of her family were taken to block 16, each block if 15 barracks which was divided into six units. They were assigned two of these for her entire family. In camp everybody shared a bath, open latrine and mess building. The food made them sick, young and old alike, because the ...