Farewell To Manzanar Research Paper

Did you know that in 1942, thousands of Japanese people were taken from their homes and put into camps? In Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki, we follow the life of Jeanne after the events of Pearl Harbor in 1941. After the said event, 120,000 Japanese/Japanese-American people were forced into internment camps by the government for fear that they would interfere in the war effort; they had to live in these camps for 3 years until the war ended. While they lived there, men who were 17 or older were forced to make a choice through the Loyalty Oath, if you were loyal to America or not: if you were to say YES, you would probably be drafted into war; if you were to say NO, you would be sent back to Japan. Woody, Jeanne's older brother, was among those who had to think carefully and choose which side he was on. …show more content…
Although I argue that it would be better to choose yes, I understand that some may choose NO in order to avoid being drafted into war. I would have answered YES on the Loyalty Oath, because I don’t want to be considered an enemy by the US, since it is the country I would currently be in, it wouldn’t be a good idea to identify yourself as an enemy; they would be able to do whatever they need to within their own territory. On page 8 of Farewell to Manzanar, it states, “Then word came that he had been taken into custody and shipped out. Where to, or for how long? No one knew what to do. All my brothers’ attempts to find out were fruitless.” I know that this scene first describes when Papa was taken away from his family due to charges that weren’t even true in the first

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