"Farewell To Manzanar"

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This paper examines "Farewell To Manzanar" by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston. The book deals with the internment of Japanese & Japanese Americans during World War II and describes the impact this has on the author and her family. The paper discusses major characters in this book, which treats the issues of prejudice, racism, assimilation and identity.

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"Shortly after the United States entered World War II, the government interned Japanese residents of the Western states in ten internment camps, including Manzanar in California. One of the many children uprooted from their homes, along with their families and interned at Manzanar, was seven-year old Jeanne Wakatsuki, author of "Farewell to Manzanar" together with her writer husband James Houston, that tells the true story of the Japanese American experience during and after the World War I internment."

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