WHAT IS THE BOOK FAREWELL TO MANZANAR ABOUT?
Farewell to Manzanar was written by a Japanese woman named Jeanne Wakatsuki. She was among the tens of thousands of people with Japanese descent who were forced to relocate to internment camps during World War ll. In her book, she describes the three years in her early childhood that she spent living on the internment camp known as Manzanar in Southern California. She was seven years old when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the Executive Order 9066 was signed allowing the War Department authority to define military areas on the west coast and relocate any possible “threats.” She and her large family were relocated from their home in Ocean Park to multiple other homes before being deported to the dreaded internment camp. In the pages of Farewell to Manzanar, she describes the horrific living conditions under which the Japanese were forced to survive, the external and domestic challenges they faced, and the way their stay impacted their lives forever.
Farewell to Manzanar was written by a Japanese woman named Jeanne Wakatsuki. She was among the tens of thousands of people with Japanese descent who were forced to relocate to internment camps during World War ll. In her book, she describes the three years in her early childhood that she spent living on the internment camp known as Manzanar in Southern California. She was seven years old when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the Executive Order 9066 was signed allowing the War Department authority to define military areas on the west coast and relocate any possible “threats.” She and her large family were relocated from their home in Ocean Park to multiple other homes before being deported to the dreaded internment camp. In the pages of Farewell to Manzanar, she describes the horrific living conditions under which the Japanese were forced to survive, the external and domestic challenges they faced, and the way their stay impacted their lives forever.
WHAT IS THIS WEBSITE ABOUT?
As a final project after reading Farewell to Manzanar, we have been asked to create a website that provides information about a topic that connects with a main idea in the book. The topic we choose to explore may be a historical event, or something that is currently going on in the world today. For our project, we decided to research more about the Gulag camps that confined and killed millions of people in Russia from the 1930s all the way into the 1950s. This topic relates very well to the internment of Japanese regarding many aspects. Mainly, the book Farewell to Manzanar reminded us of the events that occurred throughout the Soviet Union, Siberia, and Central Asia because like the Japanese, these unfortunate people were forcefully relocated from their homes, thrown into dreadful camps, and ripped of the rights they thought they had. Both involved mostly innocent people being taken captive for unfair and unjustified reasons. Though the victims in these two instances did not experience the same degree of hardships, the internment of the Japanese is still very much like the imprisonment of people in the Soviet Union. They were forced to live in rough conditions and treated harshly and unfairly by their authorities and most of society. They had their families torn apart and relationships tested. Both the Gulag and the internment of the Japanese are significant parts of our world's history and are under-recognized and analyzed by most people today. Read on to learn more!
As a final project after reading Farewell to Manzanar, we have been asked to create a website that provides information about a topic that connects with a main idea in the book. The topic we choose to explore may be a historical event, or something that is currently going on in the world today. For our project, we decided to research more about the Gulag camps that confined and killed millions of people in Russia from the 1930s all the way into the 1950s. This topic relates very well to the internment of Japanese regarding many aspects. Mainly, the book Farewell to Manzanar reminded us of the events that occurred throughout the Soviet Union, Siberia, and Central Asia because like the Japanese, these unfortunate people were forcefully relocated from their homes, thrown into dreadful camps, and ripped of the rights they thought they had. Both involved mostly innocent people being taken captive for unfair and unjustified reasons. Though the victims in these two instances did not experience the same degree of hardships, the internment of the Japanese is still very much like the imprisonment of people in the Soviet Union. They were forced to live in rough conditions and treated harshly and unfairly by their authorities and most of society. They had their families torn apart and relationships tested. Both the Gulag and the internment of the Japanese are significant parts of our world's history and are under-recognized and analyzed by most people today. Read on to learn more!