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The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese led to the entry of the United States in the World War II. While the war was going on, the United States decided to put Japanese into camps an effort to get rid of Japanese spies and make sure that nobody had contact with Japan. In Farewell to Manzanar, an autobiography written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, the author shares her experience at camp Manzanar in Ohio Valley, California during the 1940s. The book was published in 1973, about 31 years after Wakatsuki left camp Manzanar.

If you were Jewish or Japanese you were forced to go to the camps. When they were sent to camps, there were many disadvantages. Many of the Jewish and Japanese people had to start life all over again and once they had come back from surviving the camps they would have lost all communication with friends and family. Both races were also told to take whatever they can carry to the camps and to dispose the rest away. As stated in Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, “‘I burned all my own wedding photos”’(Ford 74).

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There are many things that happened to Japanese-American immigrants during World War 2 that people in this time period aren’t really familiar with. A story from a Japanese woman, Jeanne Wakatsuki-Houston, who was born and lived in this era, with help from her husband, James D. Houston, explains and sheds some light during the times where internment camps still prevailed. The writing piece titled “Arrival at Manzanar", takes place during her childhood and the Second World War. In the beginning, Jeanne and her family were living a calm and peaceful life in a predominantly white neighborhood, until disaster struck the world and they were forced to move due to escalating tensions between Japanese Orientals and white Americans. At the time, Japanese-Americans, like Jeanne, were forced to live in an internment camp, which is a prison of sorts, due to the war with Japan. The text is being told through a first person point-of-view in which Jeanne herself tells the story through her experiences during the war. In that story, which contains only a part of the original text, much of the setting took place either prior to and during the time she was sent to the internment camps and describes her struggle with it. This story clearly states the importance of family and perseverance which is shown through her use of pathos, definition, and chronological storytelling.

For Japanese people living in America, WWII spelled disaster. Not only was their country of origin at war with the country they lived in, but public opinion combined with the unchecked power of Executive Order 9066 forced 110,000 Japanese people out of their homes and into inhospitable Internment camps scattered across the US. Jeanne Wakatsuki's autobiographical Farewell to Manzanar captures the internment camp’s effect on her family. While Jeanne and her father are at the heart of the story, the war also has a profound effect on Jeanne’s mother “Mama.” Jeanne’s mother experiences very negative circumstances during internment including feeling dehumanized and witnessing the disintegration of her family. One surprising slightly positive impact

Farewell to Manzanar follows the story of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, a once young Japanese American born citizen who underwent not only racial isolation in an internment camp but societal assimilation. Upon leaving Manzanar Jeanne and her family still felt the repression quoting “We never mentioned camp, It was so subconscious...like it was a bad dream or that there was some shame involved with it. So you just don’t refer to it,”-The Legacy of “Farewell to Manzanar.” Jeanne consistently talks about this form of shame after leaving the camps, Leading one to strongly believe she was more so a victim than a hero. The article, The Legacy of “Farewell to Manzanar” goes on to talk about Houston and her family’s life within the camp, and how the entire time they strived to adjust to

Once the Jews got to the camp, the Nazis took their belongings and gave them very thin clothing. They were separated into groups based on strengths and who could work. The babies and handicapped were immediately killed. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke.

The internment of Japanese Americans is often a part of history rarely mention in our society. One of these internment camps was Manzanar—a hastily built community in the high desert mountains of California. The sole purpose of Manzanar was to house thousands of Japanese Americans who were held captive by their own country. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston was interned at Manzanar when she was seven years old with her family. Their only crime was being of Japanese descent. In her memoir, “Farewell to Manzanar,” Mrs. Wakatsuki Houston transcribes a powerful, heart breaking account of her childhood memories and her personal meaning of Manzanar.

In the story of Japanese imprisonment, Farewell to Manzanar, readers follow a young American girl, Jeanne, as she grows up in an internment camp during World War II. Despite being American, Jeanne and other people of Japanese descent are continually attacked due to the racism bred by the American government. They attack her and these people in a variety of forms such as isolation, disrespect, and avoidance.

Maya Angelou once said, “I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.” This quote encompasses the idea that change is inevitable. A person is involved in numerous relationships during their lifetime and what happens within them can change who they become in the future. Within the novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, the relationships that Henry Lee has developed throughout his lifetime have shaped him into the person he is today.

“Japanese-Americans in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor” is about how after an attack by Japanese they thought all Japanese were spies. They were rounded up and put in camps. Before that, curfews and travel restrictions were put in place. The camps were more humanely the ones in Germany. You had your family with you, could take some of your belongings, worked for money to buy food, and if you were lonely, after a while you could join the army. Only about a dozen Japs. died during their

If a novel could have a soundtrack, this one would be jazz. What is it about this indigenous form of American music that makes it an especially appropriate choice?

Many know the United States as one of the largest melting pots in the world, meaning immigrants can live peacefully and all races, religions, and cultures can live together. Others believe that the United States supports segregation and does not allow different people to live in their country. The U.S can surely be called a melting pot. A variety of writings, such as novels and books discuss these luxuries and or issues that America has. Novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford is only one novel that includes the topic of segregation. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, is a fictional novel about the childhood love between a Chinese man and a Japanese woman. The novel portrays the bittersweet moments they had as children and how a simple hotel brings the memories of them and many other memories, together. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, doesn’t support the idea that the United States is a well known, populated melting pot, because it portrays non whites being treated unfairly, and Japanese families being thrown out.

The camps represented a prison: no freedom, no privacy, no "America". Many families were separated and they did not know when they would see each other again. Internment was not a choice; it was a patriotic duty to prove Japanese-Americans' loyalty through submission to their new country. They had to believe in the government's reasoning and trust their new country. The years following the orders for the Japanese to be relocated would be frustrating and depressing for many. The Japanese expression "shi kata ganai" was widely adopted for these troublesome times. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston's Farewell to Manzanar illustrates the hardships and frustrations of a Japanese family, separated by internment. Houston was interned herself, during the war, which contributes to the vivid reality of the book. It describes the development of a civilization behind the barbed wire, a society who was forced to stay together, under harsh conditions, in Manzanar.

In the book Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet, The author Jamie Ford really captures the idea the people’s race often depicted how they were treated. For instance one of the book was when the japanese were all taken out of their housing developments with the chinese and placed in descent custody, surrounded by troops to help stop them from buying land, and returning them to their former homes after the war.Throughout the book the book Jamie ford also moves the chapters between the past and the present to help capture the idea of what it was really like.