Has anybody read the book Farewell to Manzanar?

Question

Im doing a project and would like to know everyone's opinions and critiques of the book.

Answer 1

Yes, I have read Farewell to Manzanar, and I think it's not a bad book (not entirely good as others)

Farewell to Manzanar is of course a memoirs of a Japanese-American girl (narrator) whose family is forced to leave her home and stay at a retention camp during World War II (note that there is a difference between that and the concentration camps in Germany at the same time. Concentration camps were human (mainly Jewish) slaughterhouses). She is bound with her traditions of Japan, yet she finds that sometimes the world is an unfair place.

When she leaves she doesn't fit right in with the normal crowd. There were kids that still believed that Japanese-Americans are still bad people. Yet she conforms in a certain degree and becomes a really great person in the end no matter how bad her father thinks about her actions.

As mentioned before, I think the book is not bad. It displayed vivid stories (and some that were gross) and it is a true story which to me made this reading a little bit easier. But some things that made the book a little bit too ordinary is conforming. Sure, she's foreign. But that's my opinion because I just read a lot of books about people trying to fit in, which is actually one of the purposes of "coming of age."

I hope that helped!

Answer 2

It great book about Japanese-American girl living in California at the outbreak of World War 2, Jeanne Wakatsuki's family was sent an internment camp with other Japanese families. It still irrelevant today, example American society make judgment about certain races etc.