Chapter 10
The Reservoir Shack: An Aside
Jeanne's brother in-law, Kaz, was staying at a resevoir shack. A sergent and three privates raided the area in case of any suspicious activity involving the war. They were lined up and backed up against a wall with three privates pointing MP's at them.
Chapter 11
Yes Yes No No
Early February government's Loyal Oath appeared. Everyone seventeen and over was required to fill it out. Jeanne's father askes Woody, the other older son, his opinion of war. Woody Replied by saying he would fight respectfully as an American citizen. This whole time they are rebelling about the war. People who support the war and those non-suporters are also at rage.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
Farewell to Manzanar Chapters 6-9
Chapter 6
Whatever He Did Had Flourished
A flashback of Jeanne's father before he was arrested. She remembers the time when the family and friends got all together for some sort of buffet. She remembers her father's two drinking buddies "Goosey and Blackie". Jeanne also refers back to when her mother was younger and how "expensive" she was. "One for every seven or eight Japanese men." Jeanne tells the story of how her father and mother met. Jeanne's mother was promised to marry "the upright son of a well-to-do farmer", but then came along Jeanne's father working in a near by family sold produce market. Mama was seventeen when she met her future husband. Jeanne's grandmother did not approve of it, so they ran away together.
Chapter 7
Fort Lincoln: An Interview
Mr. Wakatsuki is under interrogation. He is being questioned about the "fifty-gallon drums" on the deck of his boat. He answers "chum", "bait, fish guts." He is asked about the attack of Pearl Harbor and the American military. They ask what his opinion is upon war. He replies indifferently, saying he would just rather not have war.
Chapter 8
Inu
Papa is now living in the cubicle with the rest of the family. Jeanne is now eight years old, and she witnesses her parents argue. They argue about Papa's alcoholic addiction and how people around block sixteen spread rumors about him being an alcoholic. Mama tries to comfort him and confront him, he takes it the wrong way and is offended. Mama gets up and orders Papa to kill her, she says its not worth living how they are. Papa is drunk and picks up his cane and proceeds to swing at her, one of the older sons jumps in and hits Papa in the face causing his nose to bleed. Kiyo, the son, runs out until the uproar has settled down. He returns and apologizes to his father and asks for forgiveness. Papa accepts his apology.
Chapter 9
The Mess Hall Bells
Jeanne describes how some of the people in Manzanar camp refuse to live their lives in containment. They begin to rebel, putting up a strike. Police are armed with M-1's and did not hesitate to fight back. Ten people were sent to the hospital to be treated, injured by fired shots. A teenage boy dies five hours later. The rest of the people who were involved in the strike were forced back into Manzanar confinement.
Whatever He Did Had Flourished
A flashback of Jeanne's father before he was arrested. She remembers the time when the family and friends got all together for some sort of buffet. She remembers her father's two drinking buddies "Goosey and Blackie". Jeanne also refers back to when her mother was younger and how "expensive" she was. "One for every seven or eight Japanese men." Jeanne tells the story of how her father and mother met. Jeanne's mother was promised to marry "the upright son of a well-to-do farmer", but then came along Jeanne's father working in a near by family sold produce market. Mama was seventeen when she met her future husband. Jeanne's grandmother did not approve of it, so they ran away together.
Chapter 7
Fort Lincoln: An Interview
Mr. Wakatsuki is under interrogation. He is being questioned about the "fifty-gallon drums" on the deck of his boat. He answers "chum", "bait, fish guts." He is asked about the attack of Pearl Harbor and the American military. They ask what his opinion is upon war. He replies indifferently, saying he would just rather not have war.
Chapter 8
Inu
Papa is now living in the cubicle with the rest of the family. Jeanne is now eight years old, and she witnesses her parents argue. They argue about Papa's alcoholic addiction and how people around block sixteen spread rumors about him being an alcoholic. Mama tries to comfort him and confront him, he takes it the wrong way and is offended. Mama gets up and orders Papa to kill her, she says its not worth living how they are. Papa is drunk and picks up his cane and proceeds to swing at her, one of the older sons jumps in and hits Papa in the face causing his nose to bleed. Kiyo, the son, runs out until the uproar has settled down. He returns and apologizes to his father and asks for forgiveness. Papa accepts his apology.
Chapter 9
The Mess Hall Bells
Jeanne describes how some of the people in Manzanar camp refuse to live their lives in containment. They begin to rebel, putting up a strike. Police are armed with M-1's and did not hesitate to fight back. Ten people were sent to the hospital to be treated, injured by fired shots. A teenage boy dies five hours later. The rest of the people who were involved in the strike were forced back into Manzanar confinement.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Farewell to Manzanar Chapters 1-5
Part I
Chapter 1
"What Is Pearl Harbor?"
Begins with the main character at the age of seven. Her and her family live in southern California. The main character's father and two older brothers set out to the sea, to go fishing. She wishes them good luck and says her goodbyes while they disappear in the horizon. All of a sudden she sees them returning back to the terminal islands. She finds out that the Japanese just bombed Pearl Harbor. Her father later that night burned his Hiroshima flag, papers, and documents, anything that might suggested any connection with Japan. Further added father is an illegal alien. From then on Japanese families were already beginning to move, at least 500 families. FBI deputies would question each individual, ransacking houses for anything that could be used for signaling planes or ships or indicated loyalty to the Emperor. Soon the FBI arrested Jeanne's father, she had later found out he had be arrested for delivering oil to the Japanese submarines offshore. A year later, her father was released.
Chapter 2
Shikata Ga Nai
She later on moved to Ocean Park, near Santa Monica. Jeanne's family was the only Japanese family in the neighborhood. Late February the navy decided to clear Terminal Island completely. February 25Th they were given 48 hours to clear out of their homes. American Friends Service helped them to find a small house in Boyle Heights, another minority ghetto, in downtown Los Angeles, inhabited by a few hundred Terminal Island refugees. Executive Oder 9066 had been signed by President Roosevelt, giving the War Department authority to define military areas in the western states and to exclude from them anyone who might threaten the war effort. Racial profiling then began, Japanese feared of Caucasians, Caucasians were of them. They had to get on a move, Jeanne's and her family got onto a bus that took them to their destination. They arrived at Owens Valley. When arriving at towards the bus stops, the other Japanese stood silence, waiting for friendly, relative faces. After they exited the buses they were issued army mess kits, and food. ("scoops of canned Vienna sausage, canned string beans, steamed rice that had been cooked for too long, and on top of the rice a serving of canned apricots") That was dinner for them. After dinner they were taken to Block 16, a cluster of fifteen barracks. "The shacks were built of one thickness of pine planking covered with tar paper", "They sat on concrete footings, with about two feet of open space between the floorboards and the ground." "Each barracks were divided into six units, sixteen by twenty feet, about the size of a living room, with one bare bulb hanging from the ceiling and an oil stove for heat." They were assigned two of the barracks for twelve people in their family group (number). "We were issued steel army cots, two brown army blankets each, and some mattress covers." If jobs were assigned during war time labor shortages, instead of staying at Manzanar.
Chapter 3
A Different Kind of Sand
Describes the setting around Manzanar, dusty and sand covering the area. They were still continuing on building sixteen more blocks to Manzanar. Skies were clear, but icy gusts of winds would buffer the barracks through the floor boards. Jeanne's mother is getting tired of living in their kind of conditions, but her sons and Jeanne try to make the best of it.
Chapter 4
A Common Master Plan
The War Department was in charge of all the camps at a certain point. They issued "military surplus from the first World War- olive drape knit caps, earmuffs, pea coats, canvas leggings." They were given Typhoid shots, it made younger kids sick with vomiting and fevers. Food would spoil fast even in refrigerators because they would break down. Each block provided its own volunteers. "Three meals a day for 250 people." Camps of the ten, reached to California to Arkansas. Their restrooms were twelve toilet bowls arranged in six pairs, back to back with nothing separating them. "Packed sleeping quarters, the communal mess halls, the open toilets- all this was an open insult to that other, private self, a slap in the face you were powerless to challenge."
Chapter 5
Almost A Family
Food was never always great but there was always enough to fill you up. "10,000 people on an endless promenade inside the square mile of barbed wire that was the wall around our city." There included a camp hospital. Jeanne's father comes back in September 1942. Jeanne's two sister in-laws are pregnant. A first new born has arrived and is named George in honor of Papa's arrival.
Chapter 1
"What Is Pearl Harbor?"
Begins with the main character at the age of seven. Her and her family live in southern California. The main character's father and two older brothers set out to the sea, to go fishing. She wishes them good luck and says her goodbyes while they disappear in the horizon. All of a sudden she sees them returning back to the terminal islands. She finds out that the Japanese just bombed Pearl Harbor. Her father later that night burned his Hiroshima flag, papers, and documents, anything that might suggested any connection with Japan. Further added father is an illegal alien. From then on Japanese families were already beginning to move, at least 500 families. FBI deputies would question each individual, ransacking houses for anything that could be used for signaling planes or ships or indicated loyalty to the Emperor. Soon the FBI arrested Jeanne's father, she had later found out he had be arrested for delivering oil to the Japanese submarines offshore. A year later, her father was released.
Chapter 2
Shikata Ga Nai
She later on moved to Ocean Park, near Santa Monica. Jeanne's family was the only Japanese family in the neighborhood. Late February the navy decided to clear Terminal Island completely. February 25Th they were given 48 hours to clear out of their homes. American Friends Service helped them to find a small house in Boyle Heights, another minority ghetto, in downtown Los Angeles, inhabited by a few hundred Terminal Island refugees. Executive Oder 9066 had been signed by President Roosevelt, giving the War Department authority to define military areas in the western states and to exclude from them anyone who might threaten the war effort. Racial profiling then began, Japanese feared of Caucasians, Caucasians were of them. They had to get on a move, Jeanne's and her family got onto a bus that took them to their destination. They arrived at Owens Valley. When arriving at towards the bus stops, the other Japanese stood silence, waiting for friendly, relative faces. After they exited the buses they were issued army mess kits, and food. ("scoops of canned Vienna sausage, canned string beans, steamed rice that had been cooked for too long, and on top of the rice a serving of canned apricots") That was dinner for them. After dinner they were taken to Block 16, a cluster of fifteen barracks. "The shacks were built of one thickness of pine planking covered with tar paper", "They sat on concrete footings, with about two feet of open space between the floorboards and the ground." "Each barracks were divided into six units, sixteen by twenty feet, about the size of a living room, with one bare bulb hanging from the ceiling and an oil stove for heat." They were assigned two of the barracks for twelve people in their family group (number). "We were issued steel army cots, two brown army blankets each, and some mattress covers." If jobs were assigned during war time labor shortages, instead of staying at Manzanar.
Chapter 3
A Different Kind of Sand
Describes the setting around Manzanar, dusty and sand covering the area. They were still continuing on building sixteen more blocks to Manzanar. Skies were clear, but icy gusts of winds would buffer the barracks through the floor boards. Jeanne's mother is getting tired of living in their kind of conditions, but her sons and Jeanne try to make the best of it.
Chapter 4
A Common Master Plan
The War Department was in charge of all the camps at a certain point. They issued "military surplus from the first World War- olive drape knit caps, earmuffs, pea coats, canvas leggings." They were given Typhoid shots, it made younger kids sick with vomiting and fevers. Food would spoil fast even in refrigerators because they would break down. Each block provided its own volunteers. "Three meals a day for 250 people." Camps of the ten, reached to California to Arkansas. Their restrooms were twelve toilet bowls arranged in six pairs, back to back with nothing separating them. "Packed sleeping quarters, the communal mess halls, the open toilets- all this was an open insult to that other, private self, a slap in the face you were powerless to challenge."
Chapter 5
Almost A Family
Food was never always great but there was always enough to fill you up. "10,000 people on an endless promenade inside the square mile of barbed wire that was the wall around our city." There included a camp hospital. Jeanne's father comes back in September 1942. Jeanne's two sister in-laws are pregnant. A first new born has arrived and is named George in honor of Papa's arrival.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Research Project
Internet Resources and Novels
http://www.pbs.org/weekendexplorer/california/mammoth/manzanar.htm
"Concentration Camp" it is a reference to the plaque at the entrance to Manzanar. Addition of how many refugees were contained.
http://www.pbs.org/weekendexplorer/california/mammoth/manzanar.htm
"Concentration Camp" it is a reference to the plaque at the entrance to Manzanar. Addition of how many refugees were contained.
http://www.corvalliscommunitypages.com/handcraftsallnew16.htm
Describes the setting of Manzanar concentration camps. Includes important quote from people who were victims. Mainly about the lives of those who suffered and importance of which people were in charge.
http://www.socialism.com/fsarticles/vol26no2/voicesofcolor.html
Voices of those who survived the concentration camps and how many Asian Americans were being "Racial Profiled".
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Farewell-to-Manzanar.id-108,pageNum-7.html
"Farewell to Manzanar" summary of the novel.
http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/documentary/index.html
"Children of the Camps", outspoken novel about families and children surviving the in Manzanar camps.
Novel: Farewell To Manzanar
-High school student made a document about her and her family spent in Manzanar for three and a half years.
-Includes a timeline in chronological order, including passes of laws, immigration and naturalization, citizenship's, when the attack was on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, military, supreme court rules, ending of Manzanar and World War II.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Research Experience
In the past years of education, I do not recall myself writting a historic rearch paper. Maybe I have written about different topics, including cultural differences, or a famous scientist but not yet have I written a paper on history related people or events. I would have to say the easiest part about writting a research paper is researching the web for biographies, autobiographies and other details about the following topic. Taking notes was one of the ways I organized my research papers. I would list each note in chronological order. I assume it was one of the easy ways of getting organized and putting all your thoughts together. The hardest part for me, writting a research paper would most likely be the starting of the introduction and the conclusion. It is most difficult for me to think what the begining of the paper should start off with, and including the conclusion confuses me at times. Also summarizing all of your notes into a small paragraph is aslo my major weakness in writting research papers. Capturing emotion, including the setting, and dialoge between characters is indeed one of the hardest things to put together in a research paper. To get through this obstacle I must think clearly, take my time out and understand what I am actually writting about. By writting this research paper, for sure I will be more acknowledged about The Manzanar Concentration Camps.
Revisiting United States History in English
In my own opinion of United States History I still find each historic famous person and or events about American history to be interesting. United States History educates students of their past and how it effect so much of our everyday lives today. I would still rather stick to studying United States History in class, during school. I will admit I would not catch my self studying history on my very own personal time, unless its for a major test. A specific event or topic that I would most gladly enjoy learning about is of the Manzanar Concentration Camps. It is also just like the Holocaust, but my mistake, the Holocaust has nothing to do with United States History. The Manzanar Concentration Camps were made for captivity of the Japanese on March 21, 1942. It was similar to the Jews and the Germans, having the Japanese take place of the Jews and we Americans were the ones taking the Germans place. Committing the same harsh cruelty to a human being, they were all kept in numbers together. Food was indeed scarce at the time. The Japanese would fight over food, water, and shelter. It was also considered survival of the fittest in other terms. Two sources I could possibly use to do research on The Manzanar Concentration Camps is by Internet, or using encyclopedias.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
United States History in English
United States History is indeed an intresting subject. History teaches us about the past that reflects our lives today. How our history has changed in advantages and disadvantages. I do not usually study United States History in my spare time, that is why students like myself come to school and learn about our United States History. Other than any kind of history I would like to be acknowledged about is my family's history background, though I usually ask my parents for answers. If I were to choose a topic related to United States History that I would be intrested in about learning, I would like to learn about the Holocaust more. For some reason, it has always intrigued me and caught my attention. I do know just a hand full of facts about the Holocaust, for example the concentration camps jews were trapped in captivity and starving for their lives. It really got my attention of how humans could coruptly treat their own kind. One way I could learn about the Holocaust more is most likely using the internet or watching videos of concentration camp victims.
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