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Summary: I would of liked it if i read it faster!!
Review: The book Farwell To Manzanar was picked out by are teacher. I would of like it if we read it faster. I think the author talk to much on non important stuff at the end she rush to the end of the book which i did not like
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Summary: Excellent Book with emotional insight
Review: I read this book for my literature class in one day. I couldn't put it down. Our teacher gave us a month to do it, and I finished it on the first day. This book is amazing, and It is on my top ten list for books of all time. This should be on every persons reading list. I also read the review a reader a couple lines below mine. His summary line is titled: "Boring". Listen to me, that person either read that book the night before it was due, or he lacks enough intelligence to understand the book. This book is a must read, and if you have time, sit down and read it.
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Summary: A girl who read it and began to like it.
Review: A teacher picked this book out for me to read as a book report. She said I would like it and at first I thought it was dumb, but then I started getting into it and I began to like it.
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Summary: This book is boooooring!
Review: This book is so boring!! I had to read it for school and it lags! It just goes on and on!
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Summary: Plaintive memoir about being a Japanese American
Review: I bought this memoir for our church library because it is an excellent personal story about living in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War Two. It is a book about paradoxes: the differences between American living and Japanese traditions; the pride of being Japanese American and the shame of being suspected as traitors; and the dichotomy between an America fighting for freeedom while legislating forced incarceration of American citizens. This book will appeal to students who have studied World War Two and the Holocaust because it turns the spotlight on the hypocrisy of the American government. Although people of the time might say, "things were different then," I would say "yes, they were" and point to this racist example of something America should never do to its people again. This book would also appeal to adults. Most of the baby boomers who I have asked to read this book have all liked it for its truth and plaintive, ethereal ending. An excellent memoir. Congratulations Jean, on a beautiful book.
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Summary: This is a great book.
Review: This book is about a Japanese American child detained in an internment camp with her family in 1945 during W. W. II. The American government was at war with the Japanese government. It is a very powerful book because it gives you a real impression of what it was like in concentration camps. It is written in the first person style as though the child is talking. It tells about horrible living conditions and lack of experienced caretakers. I think this is an important historical account of the terrible things that happened in history. It shows that internment profoundly affected the Japanese people. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to know how much governmental racism can affect a group of people.
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Summary: An underrated classic -- explores the real 'America'
Review: A book not written, but recorded--an indirect style more real than our own lives. This is truth--a modern "aufshcrei" against an American ethnocentrism and xenophobia that reduced us to an adulterated and denied state no better than our Nazi nemesis. There is a gray cloud hanging over the language--but a youthful buoyancy and poignant nostalgia too. Bittersweet, horrific, all-conquering.--Justin Laird Weaver
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Summary: A true feeling of what really happened to those behind wires
Review: At first, I thought this book had a really slow pace, but as I read and read, it really began to hit me and give me a sense that....this is told from a person who went through horror, pain, and diffulculty;WWII From what she writes, I can tell that this era, is a period she will NEVER forget, no matter how hard she tries. An exellent book to read if you want to find out about life in camp. I'd describe it in one word: "HORRIBLE"
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Summary: Farewell to Manzanar reports history subjectively
Review: Most kids in American schools never get to learn about the bad things the U.S. government does. When learning about World War II, it's always, "The Nazi's are so evil." Everyone, young or old, should know about the this and other terrible things our government has done, and this book is a great way to find it out for yourself.
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Summary: American treatment to Japanese during WWII
Review: this book is written in first person by Jeanne Wakatsuki. It starts out when Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. The FBI then sends all of the Japanese living in the U.S. (or at least that area) to live at a concentration camp, Manzanar. But Jeanne's father is separated from the rest of the family because he's arrested by the FBI. 9 months later, he joins the rest of the family, but has now change, he now drinks a lot, has a bad attitude, and beats his wife. To distract herself, Jeanne tries out baton twirling at camp. Finally, the people at m,anzanar are granted freedom when the United States wins WWII because they bombed Hiroshima. Jeanne's father, mother, and sister don't move out yet, they stay a while longer, until they are forced toleave camp. That is when Jeanne's father decides to move near Long Beach CA, where Jeanne meets her new best friend, Radine, the typical american girl. As Jeanne grows, she realizes how racist people are to her just because she's japanese. Finally, she has her moment of glory, but is then ruined by other's feelings of racism. Years later, Jeanne gets married and goes back to Manzanar to see what's left of it, but it's mostly bad memories. i thought this was a good book because since the authors tells us the story in first person, she can add more feeling and emotions to the book. what i didn't like was that some parts were confusing, i didn't know whether she was telling us what was happening right then or whether she was remebering. overall i say it was a good book. the theme, racism, is very clear throughout the entire book.
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