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Jeanne Watkatsuki Houston's Farewell to Manzanar

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of Japanese-Americans who were rounded up and taken to internment camps, it was purely ironic. It can be said that it was ironic for the pure fact that while America  was fighting to secure the freedoms that America supposedly stood for, millions of her citizens were considered disloyal or a threat, based on their ethnic backgrounds. Against such a backdrop  is Jeanne Watkatsuki Houstons book, Farewell to Manzanar. This is a detailed retelling of Houstons time in the internment camp when she was a little girl. Though she is only  seven years old, she is old enough to know some things. She knows that her father is utterly depressed, quick to anger, and expects much of her. She knows that  her mother hates all the work that they are forced to do at the camp and that her mother is full of hatred for the United States, if not downright  disgust. She is absolutely convinced that her brother is a modern day hero, and given his circumstances, he is. The impact and impressions that the camp leaves on her whole  family is chronicled in a saga spanning her time in the camp, to her time as an adult looking back at the experience. Constantly struggling to find a way to  fit into the structure of a country that essentially considers her Caucasian, to a point, and her familys adherence to their Japanese traditions. She is simultaneously included and excluded from  the American Dream, until she returns to Manzanar some thirty years later. Finally, she is able to make peace with her experiences in Manzanar and its impact on her life.  There are some very strong undercurrents which run through this book, namely those of prejudice, coming of age, and loss of identity. It can be said that though the story