Farwell to Manzanar

The book Farwell to Manzanar is the true story of a young Japanese-American girl, Jeanne Wakatsuki. In it she recalls the time after the bombing at Pearl Harbor, the three and a half years during World War II that she spent in an internment camp called Manzanar, and the years following her release. The book begins with a seven year old Jeanne and is told primarily through her eyes until 1972, almost thirty years after she …

…the things we do and act the way we act because we do not know any better. I do not believe that this is always the case. A lot of the things we say and do as children are done because we do not mind expressing our emotions and letting other know how we feel. When we are young, like Jeanne, we do not judge others and in turn do not expect to be judged.