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In Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston writes about her life before, during, and after her family's internment in the camp.
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1) What do you think were her most significant positive experiences before, during, or after her family's internment in the camp? Name at least three and cite the page(s).
2) What do you think were her most significant negative experiences before, during, or after her family's internment in the camp? Name at least three and cite the page(s)
3) What impact did these experiences have on Jeanne and the development of her personality?
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Farewell to Manzanar
1. What do you think were her most significant positive experiences before, during, or after her family’s internment in the camp? Name at least three and cite the page(s).
First positive experience of Jeanne was her childhood at Ocean Park. (before Manzanar)
She had never forgotten those nice dinners that whole her family used to have in Ocean Park. The beautiful dinners those the whole Wakatsuki family used to have around the spacious round table in their Ocean Park home and those nice and priceless family moments Jeanne always enjoyed. That large round table they used to have in their Ocean Park home. Jeanne has mentioned, ‘’The reason I want to remember this is because I know we will never be able to do it again’’ (Houston and Houston 34). Her family lived happy at that time. The family dinner was always wonderful in their Ocean Park home. Her teachers were so nice to her at Ocean Park school. She loved her childhood and the way she was raised in Ocean Park.
Another positive experience that Jeanne had at her school in Manzanar. (during Manzanar)
Jeanne loved her school in Manzanar. She felt safe there. All the kids were the same race and all of them came from the similar backgrounds, same religion, the same traditions, and values. She got along very well with those Japanese children. There were a lot of interesting activities and classes at that school that she really enjoyed doing. ‘’During the week they organized games and craft activities. On weekends we often took hikes beyond the fence. … picnic groups and camping sites’’ (94-95). The school was offering different classes like singing, acting, trumpet playing, tap-dancing, plus traditional Japanese arts like needlework, judo, and kendo. Jeanne really loved those classes. She even tried taking lessons of the traditional dance called odori and some ballet classes too.
Jeanne’s friendship with Radine leaded her to another positive experience. (after Manzanar)
After Manzanar Jeanne became friends with Radine who she met at school. She really enjoyed their friendship. Girls had a lot of things in common. Radine was such a good friend to Jeanne. She was the one who really understood where Jeanne was coming from and how she felt all the time by being Japanese. Radine was very understanding, kind, and protective towards Jeanne. Even though Radine mother didn’t accept Jeanne, Radine continued to be her friend no matter what. ‘’Radine and I were closer now. She felt obliged to protect me. She would catch someone staring at me as we walked home from school and she would growl, ‘’What are you looking at? She an American citizen. She’s got as much right as anybody to walk around on the street!’’ ….. ‘’I was grateful when Radine stuck up for me. Soon we were together all the time. I was teaching her how to twirl baton, and this started a partnership that lasted for the next three years’’(145).
1. What do you think were her most significant negative experiences before, during, or after her family’s internment in the camp? Name at least three and cite the page(s).
Jeannes broken family affected her a lot in a horrible way (during and after Manzanar )
As soon as the Pearl Harbor (in Hawaii islands) was bombed by Japanese army from Japan during the World War II, not only Wakatsuki family but also all Japanese American families started to have huge problems. They all had to move to segregated areas and one of them was Manzanar concentration camp. All of that had affected Jeannes family dramatically. All of that had so huge negative impact of all her family that they could never recover after that trauma what had been done to them. Jeanne has stated, ‘’My own family, after three years of mess hall living, collapsed as an integrated unit’’ (33).
Jeannes father changed a lot in bad way that made her feel very sad and embarrassed of him at the same time (during and after Manzanar)
Jeannes father was always very energetic and kind of bossy in a good way in their Ocean Park home. He was very hardworking person for his family. He owned 2 fishing boats and went fishing often to provide the best for his family. Being the head of their family, he was the one who always made sure that his family all right. However, horrible impact of North Dakota prison and Manzanar after prison changed him forever. ‘’This was September 1942. He had been gone for nine months. He had aged 10 years. He looked over 60, gaunt, wilted as his shirt, underweight, leaning on that cane.’’ ….. “I hugged him tighter, wanting to be happy that my father had come back. Yet I hurt so inside I could only welcome him with convulsive tears’’ (41). ‘’ And somehow, during the winter of ’42, both of his feet were frostbitten. No one quite knows how. Papa never talked about that to anyone after he got back’’ (53). ‘’He was not the same man. Something terrible had happened to him in North Dakota (prison)’’ (40). ‘’ 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 ‘’ (65). He felt very traumatized and empty. He started to have serious drinking problems and became very abusive to his family especially to his wife. He was drunk and depressed all the time. With the time being in Manzanar, he stopped drinking for a while. Nevertheless, soon after Manzanar, Jeanne’s father drinking problems started again. He stopped feeling himself as a man. His dignity was taken away from him forever. ‘’Outside Papa had no job to go back to. A California law passed om 1943 made it illegal now for Issei to hold commercial fishing licenses. And his boats and nets were gone, he knew – confiscated or stolen’’ (121). ‘’Papa already knew the car he’d put money on before Pearl Harbor had been repossessed. And, as he suspected, no record of his fishing boats remained’’ (138). ‘’He never really recovered from this, either financially or spiritually’’ (139). Jeanne started to feel embarrassed of her father when she was in Junior and High School. She felt like she lost respect for him.
The hate from society that Jeanne had always felt During World War 2 and after (during and after Manzanar)
Jeanne had always felt the hate towards her from white Caucasian citizens because she was Japanese. It hurt her a lot. She started to feel that discrimination towards her since the war began and after war finisher the discrimination continued. She felt horrible, but she also understood that she couldn’t really do anything in this situation. She was powerless. She had no power over it. She couldn’t change it. ‘’Japs Go Back Where You Came From’’ …. ‘’ I had heard my sisters say, ‘’Why do they hate us?’’ I had heard Mama say with lonesome resignation, “I don’t understand all this hate in the world’’ (136).
The discrimination of Jeanne at school that had always made her feel extremely miserable (after Manzanar)
Jeanne was often discriminated at school because she was Japanese. White children didn’t want to be friends with her because she was Japanese. White Caucasian children’s parents didn’t accept Jeanne to visit their homes and play with their children. The boys didn’t want to date with her. The teachers didn’t accept her eater. ‘’From that day forward I lived with this double impulse: the urge to disappear and the desperate desire to be acceptable ‘’ (143). ‘’The boys I had crushes on would not ask me out. They would flirt with me in the hallways or meet me after school, but they would ask Radine to the dances, or someone like Radine, someone they safely be seen with ‘’ (153). ‘’ I never wanted to change my face or to be someone other than myself. What I wanted was the kind of acceptance that seemed to come so easily to Radine. ….. I see a young, beautifully blond and blue-eyed high school girl (Radine) moving through a room full of others her own age, much admired by everyone, men and women both, myself included. …. She is something I can never be, some possibility in my life that can never be fulfilled ‘’ (154). I was prepared to believe that teachers would stuff the ballot box to keep me from being queen. …. They want Lois Carson to be queen. I heard them say so ‘’ (157). ‘’Later, at Lois Carson’s house, less public gathering, which I’d overheard a mention of but wouldn’t be invited to ‘’ (164).
1. What impact did these experiences have on Jeanne and the development of her personality?
Jeanne had suffered a lot. She had always felt that she can never be like them, like those white Caucasian children at school. No matter how hard she had tried, people still looked down at her. That made her feel miserable, like not good enough. Sometimes she just felt like she wants to be invisible to others or just completely disappear. She lived with that ‘’ Double Impulse’’ inside of her. ‘’From that day forward I lived with this double impulse: the urge to disappear and the desperate desire to be acceptable’’ (143). All of that had shaped her personality. She became very insecure of herself. She was always afraid not to be accepter again by others. All of that gave her a lot of stress. The only what Jeanne was really desiring is to be accepted by white Caucasian people at her school, to be treated right, to be not judged by her appearance or race. She wanted to be accepted by the person she was, by her personality, not by her race or the way she looked like.
1) What do you think were her most significant positive experiences before, during, or after her family's internment in the camp? Name at least three and cite the page(s).
Before her family’s internment in the camp, after papa was arrested, mama was so intelligent and brave to keep the whole family ten children and one sixty-five year old Granny together to be safe. Also, she kept on working and let children go to school. She tried her best to make everything not too bad.
“Mama’s first concern now was to keep the family together; and once the war began, she felt safer there than isolated racially in Ocean Park.”(P10)
“Mama and Woody went to work packing celery for a Japanese produce dealer. Kiyo and my sister May and I enrolled in the local school.”(P14-15)
During her family’s internment in the camp, her Mama still emphasized the cohesion of the family. When they first entered the camp her Mama asked the children to eat together, although she failed. In the camp her Mama kept on working as a dietician to feed the family, even though her Papa was an alcoholic and usually abused her Mama.
“Now, in the mess halls, after a few weeks had passed, we stopped eating as a family. Mama tried to hold us together for a while, but it was hopeless.” (P32)
2) What do you think were her most significant negative experiences before, during, or after her family's internment in the camp? Name at least three and cite the page(s)
During her family’s internment in the camp, her Papa immersed in his dark, bitter, brooding presence. He was always blind drunk and passed out but not did any work. Also, he did serious acts of violence on her Mama; he usually threatened and abused her Mama. Finally, before the camp was closed, a lot of people chose to find a job and arranged their own lives, but Papa was particularly cowardly and chose to stay in the camp waiting to be arranged.
“He made her bring him extra portion of rice, or cans of the syrupy fruit they served. He would save this up and concoct brews in a homemade still he kept behind the door, brews that smelled so bad Mama was ashamed to let in any visitors…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 all of us, lurching around the tiny room, cursing in Japanese and swinging his bottles wildly. No one could pacify him.” (P59-60)
“The night Mama and I came back from the latrine the newest bit of gossip; he had been drinking all day. At the first mention of what we’d overheard, he flew in to a rage. He began to curse he for listening to such lies, then he cursed he for leaving him alone and wanted to know where she had really gone…He kept pursuing oblivion through drink, he kept abusing Mama, and there seemed to be no way out of it for anyone. You couldn’t even run. ” (P61-64)
“Papa gave himself up to schedule. The government had put him here, he reasoned, the government could arrange his departure.” (P121)
3) What impact did these experiences have on Jeanne and the development of her personality?
After her family’s internment in the camp, Jeanne yearned to be accepted by the Caucasian and integrate into Anglo-American society. She couldn't accept her parents as traditional Japanese. She despised her parents and even hated her papa because they can’t integrate into the Caucasian society. She admired to been a blond and blue-eyed Caucasian and even she had a recurring dream about that. She hated that people didn’t accept her, but she couldn’t accept herself. She lived in the eyesight of others and couldn’t be herself.
2) What do you think were her most significant negative experiences before, during, or after her family's internment in the camp? Name at least three and cite the page(s)
(Before internment in the camp) 1.Pp. 10: “When I had entered kindergarten two years earlier, I was the only Asian in the class. They sat me next to a Caucasian girl who happened to have very slanted eyes. I looked at her began to scream.”
I am not 100% sure, but she mentioned that “They sat me …” maybe the kindergarten teacher discriminated her as an Asian. I think that could cause trauma.
(During internment in the camp) 2. Pp. 63: “We had watched many scenes like this since his return, with Papa acting so crazy sometimes you could almost laugh at the samurai in him, trying to cow her with sheer noise and fierce display.”
I think not only Jeanne, but her family suffered from the incredibly reversed behavior of the papa shown after he came back from prison. Her father was an alcoholic and if there was anything he didn't like, he started a quarrel with his family. Every day of living with her father, who has changed 180 degrees, must have been a pain.
(During internment in the camp) 3. Pp. 66: “In months before the riot the bells rang often at our mess hall, sending out the calls for public meetings. They rang…. and for a wholesale return to Japan. Some meetings turned into shouting sessions. Some led to beatings. One group tried to burn down the general store. Assassination threats were commonplace.”
As time goes by, more and more people in the mess hall are starting to complain about the situation around them such as low-quality food, low wages, and other problems. The problem became out of hand and ended up in many people rioting. Think about it. Her surroundings changed into the world where one’s nose is cut off as soon as one closes one’s eyes. That is not going to be possible for her to live in peace.
1) What do you think were her most significant positive experiences before, during, or after her family's internment in the camp? Name at least three and cite the page(s).
(Before internment in the camp) Pp. 18: “The Caucasian servers were thinking that the fruit that the fruit poured over rice would make a good dessert… I opened my mouth to complain. My mother jabbed me in the back to keep quiet”
She learned Jeanne’s mother taught her not to whining about the quality of foods. (Because they had to follow the rules to stay in the camp, her mother stopped her complaining about the food.)
---> She learned from her mother that sometimes it is better to say nothing than say something!
(During internment in the camp) Pp. 105: “He was right, of course. I did not know what I was getting myself into. Years later I silently thanked him for forcing me to postpone such decisions until I was old enough to think for myself. But at the time it was unforgivable.”
All she wanted to be was baptized into the church to become a nun, but Papa implacably opposed her plan thinking that she’s too young. She began to dislike her father for not listening to her wishes. After time passes, realizing that she chose too spontaneously, she learned that parents are right ninety-nine times out of a hundred.
--> She learned a lesson from Papa to not to rush into a decision.
(After internment in the camp) Pp. 145: "If anything, Radine and I were closer now. she felt obliged to protect me. She would catch someone staring at me as were walked home from school and she would growl, "What are you looking at?"
Their first meeting starts when Radine asks Jeannie a question. Unlike other kids who have been making fun of her for racism, Radine approached her without discrimination.
---> Jeanne made a true friend.
2) What do you think were her most significant negative experiences before, during, or after her family's internment in the camp? Name at least three and cite the page(s)
(Before internment in the camp) 1.Pp. 10: “When I had entered kindergarten two years earlier, I was the only Asian in the class. They sat me next to a Caucasian girl who happened to have very slanted eyes. I looked at her began to scream.”
I am not 100% sure, but she mentioned that “They sat me …” maybe the kindergarten teacher discriminated her as an Asian. I think that could cause trauma.
(During internment in the camp) 2. Pp. 63: “We had watched many scenes like this since his return, with Papa acting so crazy sometimes you could almost laugh at the samurai in him, trying to cow her with sheer noise and fierce display.”
I think not only Jeanne, but her family suffered from the incredibly reversed behavior of the papa shown after he came back from prison. Her father was an alcoholic and if there was anything he didn't like, he started a quarrel with his family. Every day of living with her father, who has changed 180 degrees, must have been a pain.
(During internment in the camp) 3. Pp. 66: “In months before the riot the bells rang often at our mess hall, sending out the calls for public meetings. They rang…. and for a wholesale return to Japan. Some meetings turned into shouting sessions. Some led to beatings. One group tried to burn down the general store. Assassination threats were commonplace.”
As time goes by, more and more people in the mess hall are starting to complain about the situation around them such as low-quality food, low wages, and other problems. The problem became out of hand and ended up in many people rioting. Think about it. Her surroundings changed into the world where one’s nose is cut off as soon as one closes one’s eyes. That is not going to be possible for her to live in peace.
3) What impact did these experiences have on Jeanne and the development of her personality?
Because of all the small and big events that happened around her, her mental age seems to be higher than that of her peers.
Based on what she learned from what happened with her parents, she got the ability of the logic of the situation.
Contrary to papa's attempt to maintain her identity as a Japanese based on her experience of living with significantly lower treatment than other whites, she wanted to be recognized as a real American, not as a Japanese American.
