Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

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Summary: Farewell to Manzanaar by EMC
Review: This book was a poor atempt at showing the terrible times faced by the Japanese in internment camps. It ended up being a book of poor charecter development with no plot. It also succeded in making internment camps sound like summer camp. On the up side if you enjoy plottless books that skip around in time with little or no transition, this is the book for you. If you're like me and prefer a book with a plot, any plot, even a small trace of a plot I recomend reading just about any other book. If I could give this book a negative amount of stars I would.

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Summary: Farewell to Manzanar: By Jeanne Wakatsuki
Review: I had to read this book for school because it covered the unit we were learning about at the time. It provided a lot of information on life in internment camps. Even though some of this was mildly interesting, overall I found the book extremely boring. If you are planning to write a research report on Japanese life in internment camps, it might be helpful, but otherwise I recommend you do not read it. There is really no basic plot and each chapter has a random story that isn't interesting. Also, there isn't much character development. If you like historical fiction without a plot, you'd probably enjoy this, otherwise, definitely not.

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Summary: An Interesting Account of Drafted Japanese Family
Review: Read this book if you want to know about the Hiroshima's bombing. Americans screwed up - actually, Japanese did first. Anyway, this book is gossipy about the authour's father, who was too pround, and is redundant about continous gossips and other experiences felt at the camps. Although it was informative, sometimes it is annoying to read.

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Summary: Strange to read the age groups of the Reviewers
Review: I am an elementary education major, and I was required to read this memoir in one of my History courses. This was presented to college level students, and I thought it was ironic to see all the reviews from 6th/7th graders, albeit while I was reading this book, I continually complained about the simplicity of the memoir. However, it conveyed a great story, and one that is not presented enough to children. I found the end of the book to be the most heartbreaking. To see Jeanne go back to the camp, wherein she realized what she gleaned from being there, albeit it was not the best place on earth to live. Despite, it was her place of maturation. This book nicely shows how children live with eyes of innocence

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Summary: A Very Good Book
Review: "Farewell to Manzanar" is an autobiography about life in internment camps during World War 2. It is very touching and goes straight to the heart. I loved this book and I would reccomend it to anybody, especially to someone who likes historical non-fiction. This book is very well written and deserves the full 5 stars. Jeanne tells of the first time she felt total separation from her parents. This is a real tear-jerker and I would definitely reccomend it if you are a very sensitive person and like sensitive books. I am a World War 2 freak and loved this book, but you8 will like it no matter who you are. Be sure to have some tissues on hand!

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Summary: Not a difficult book to read...
Review: I had to read "Farewell to Manzanar" in the tenth grade as a group reading project. I soon discovered that the book was about on the the sixth grade reading level. I did enjoy the book. I had little idea of what the Japanese went through during the war, and "Farewell to Manzanar" gave me a good mental picure. I recommend this book for a student with very little time to read boooks. It took me about one day to read.

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Summary: Cliffs Notes, NOT HELPFULL!
Review: I am reading this book as apart of a US History project in school. I needed some extra help geting some of the details down, so I bought the cliff notes. What a waist of time and money! I would have much rather of read the book twice!

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Summary: ok at most
Review: I was very dissapointed in these book notes. The notes did not help me at all and also cconfused me even more than I had been from originally reading the book.A waste of time.

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Summary: A Great Book
Review: I read this book back in the sixth grade, and again in the tenth grade. Both times I enjoyed the book very much. I have read it again and again since then because of the fact that it is a heart warming story.

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Summary: Sad personal story of a Japanese American family
Review: I read this book for literature class in the seventh grade. Although it wasn't my favorite book it was informative. The book told of events in the US during World War II. Many Japanese American families were forced to live in internment camps away from the coast. The author of this book and her family were sent to Manzanar in California. The FBI thought the father may be sending signals to the Japanese navy. Farewell to Manzanar is an autobiography. I learned a lot about the conditions these families had to endure. This was a very sad and shocking time in our history.