Farewell to Manzanar
Farewell to Manzanar is Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's memoir of her experiences during World War II, when Japanese-Americans were held at internment camps because of their ancestry. I found some similar and parallel experiences as Houston had during other national origins when they have war with America. First, for instance, the parallel experience I found as Houston's experience is the concentration camp in Germany during the World War I. During the World War I, German put Jews in concentration camps. Although Jews contributed a lot in Germany especially in financial prospect, German had hatred against these Germany citizens. Therefore, they put these Jewish people into the highly security concentration camps. As very similar situation, Houston and her family were held in the internment camp during the World War II. Because of their ancestry, they were treated as an enemy after the attack of Pearl Harbor.
Even Houston's father's fishing boats were gone after the war. It is one of the situations Houston's experience parallel as other national origin at war with America. It is because he did not want to be identified as the enemy by the government. German, who were in America at that time were badly treated. Houston's family did not even want to leave the internment camp because of the anxiety of the life after the internment camp closed. This is the similarity of Houston's experience and Jews after the Wars. And these similarities will make us remember their lives and experiences of these Wars. All these parallel or similarity between Houston's experience and other passed event are the memories of others. For instance, Houston's father burned the Japan's flag, any paper, document and anything that might suggest he still had connection with Japan. The last similar example of Houston's experience have parallel with other event is the peoples' life after the evacuation of the internment camp. They were terrified by the living condition of the internment camp. In the guarded internment camp, Houston and her family were segregate from the outside world as other Japanese in America. This reminds me the similar situation of Jewish peoples' life after the World War I.
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