Analysis Of Farewell To Manzanar And Night

Night is a dramatic book that tells the horror and evil of the concentration camps that many were imprisoned in during World War II. Throughout the book the author Elie Wiesel, as well as many prisoners, lost their faith in God. There are many examples in the beginning of Night where people are trying to keep and strengthen their faith but there are many more examples of people rebelling against God and forgetting their religion.

Fighting a war against the oppression and persecution of a people, how hypocritical of the American government to harass and punish those based on their heritage. Magnifying the already existing dilemma of discrimination, the bombing of Pearl Harbor introduced Japanese-Americans to the harsh and unjust treatment they were forced to confront for a lifetime to come. Wakatsuki Ko, after thirty-five years of residence in the United States, was still prevented by law from becoming an American citizen.

Ready Player One hits some of the same situations as in the holocaust or for the book that we read “Night” like taking people spread out over a good area and combining them into a small dense area. They both also touch on the topic of how when someone is killed or something is blown up now one raises an eyebrow or if they do no one does anything about it.

There are several examples of change in Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's Farewell to Manzanar. Some examples are positive/negative and linked to time. One instance of a positive/negative change is going to Manzanar. Manzanar was a positive change because “...in the case of my older brothers and sisters, we went with a certain amount of relief. They had all heard stories of Japanese homes being attacked, of beatings in the streets of California towns” (Houston 17). It was a negative change because “ ‘Woody, we can’t live like this. Animals live like this.’ “ (Houston 26).

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.

In the autobiographical excerpt from "Nisei Daughter" by Monica Sone called "Camp Harmony" and the novel Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, both of the main characters and their families are relocated to a Japanese internment camp in the western United States after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They experience extreme hardships while being interned at the camps due to their race, however, although faced with such austerity, the Japanese-American families are able to overcome it through years of suffering. Between the two autobiographies, Farewell to Manzanar and “Camp Harmony,” there are various similarities and differences sharing the pain and joy of living in these internment camps.

How do you think you would have handled being a Japanese living in America during World War Two? I would guess not too well, being taken from your home, put into camps, and you were treated like you were less than the rest of the Americans. Even though a lot of the Japanese living in America during this time had done nothing to support Japan, this still happened to them. It happened to Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, and she tells about it in her book, Farewell to Manzanar. It wasn’t fair, America had other enemies during that time but only the Japanese were sent to camps for that time. The Japanese-American Internment was fueled by more than war time panic. What role did prejudice play in the Japanese-American Relocation? Are there modern day

¨In the morning he would wake up groaning like the demon in a Kabuki drama; he would vomit and then start sipping again. He terrified us all, lurching around the tiny room, cursing in Japanese and swinging his bottles wildly,¨ (Houston 50-51). This is a quote from the book Farewell to Manzanar. In this point of the book Jeanne’s father was an alcoholic. He would drink himself to sleep every night and just wake up and do it again. As a child it is hard to go through this because you can never really understand why a father would do this. Especially when he has a loving family that is there for him during it all. It’s hard to comprehend why someone would put themselves through that physical state knowing that it was hurting the ones they love.

“The name Manzanar meant nothing to us when we left Boyle Heights. We didn’t know where it was or what is was. We went because the government ordered us to” (12-13). In the book, Farewell to Manzanar, this is the situation that Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family are thrown into during World War II. Her family is Japanese, meaning that her family and all other people of Japanese descent living in the United States were seen as enemies during that time. This was all because of the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. In 1942, the Japanese were forced to move away from their homes and into internment camps like Manzanar, but the internment of the Japanese-Americans was not only from war time panic. First, prejudice played a huge role in the Japanese-American Relocation because only the Japanese were relocated when the Germans and Italians were also their enemies. Second, a modern day connection with that time in American history is all the tensions today in the Middle East. Lastly, something like the Japanese-American relocation could happen today because of Donald Trump wanting to deport Mexicans that immigrated illegally.

In the memoirs Farewell to Manzanar and Night, the authors both reveal events from their tragic past to the reader. However, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston takes a more reflective tone while Elie Wiesel tells his story with a solemn yet intimate tone. Within Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne narrates her story in a very calm and reflective way because she wanted to spread awareness that the Japanese internment did indeed happen. Although she tries to remain more of an observer and state facts of the time she was interned, at the end of the memoir, her tone does shift from a very factual standpoint to a more nostalgic and sentimental tone. In Night, Wiesel’s solemn and intimate tone helps him tell the reader of his difficult conflicts trying to survive religious persecution from the Nazis and his struggle to keep faith in God.

A Painted House and Farewell to Manzanar had many conflicts throughout the story. The main characters had to wrestle internal and external conflicts. Both of the main characters had similar struggles. At a very young age both Luke and Jeanne had to keep all of their feelings and secretes in.

In the novel Night, the text reads, “Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes… children thrown into the flames,” (Wiesel 32). Elie lived in camps in which people were burned to death purely because of their religion. He encountered suffering every single day, children, nonetheless, indifferently massacred. Small rations and death surrounded Elie, ultimately causing him to lose faith in humanity. He suffered insurmountably while watching all of these terrible things take place, all things that were carried out by the human race. Humanity had let him down, just as the government and many Americans had let Jeanne and her family down. In the book Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne writes, “And it was the humiliation. It brought him face to face with his own vulnerability, his own powerlessness. He had no rights, no home, no control over his own life,” (Wakatsuki 72). Jeanne and Elie both found themselves in vulnerable situations that they could not escape. This drain in power and overall quality of life can be to blame for Jeanne and Elie’s loss of faith in humanity. Jeanne suffered due to the deterioration of

Pamela was the name given to her at birth by her mama which was her mama’s. That was thirty-eight years ago. Now a former prostitute from Miami, Pamela could barely remember her mother or the last time anybody truly loved her.

In the biography Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki tells her family’s story of their time before and after they were sent to Japanese American internment camps. Jeanne gives insightful details about what her family went through inside the camps and talked about how many of the Japanese Americans felt. These people had to start a whole new life at these camps, so when they were forced to leave it was really hard for a lot of the families. Many families had created a better life there and found that they were not welcomed outside the camp. Japanese Americans were uncertain about their release and the end of the war because many had no place to go and most were unsure what to expect outside the camps because they would now be looked at differently after the war.

the now, this moment in time. It’s all I had, all I could count on, and all that was assured to me in my time with Jack.