7/6/2023 0 Comments Farewell to manzanar book![]() ![]() Woody (Jeanne's brother) wants to preserve his family's honor by joining the U.S. Stubborn and proud, he did not cope well with his isolation: he drank and abused his family. Ko Wakatsuki (Jeanne's father) emigrated from Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii and then to Idaho, running away with his wife and abandoning his family. The book describes the Wakatsuki's' experiences during their imprisonment and events concerning the family before and after the war. Soon after, she and the rest of her family were imprisoned at Manzanar (an American internment camp), where 11,070 Americans of Japanese ancestry and their immigrant parents-who were prevented from becoming American citizens by law-were confined during the Japanese American internment during World War II. They have to move to Terminal Island, where her father, a fisherman who owned two boats, was arrested by the FBI following the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. ![]() At age seven, Wakatsuki-a native-born American citizen-and her family were living on Ocean Park (near San Pedro, California). Jeanne Wakatsuki (the book's narrator) is a Nisei (child of a Japanese immigrant). ![]()
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