A Farewell to Manazanar, written by Jeanne Wakatsuki and James Houston begins in a pre-war United States when racial tension between Caucasian Americans and there Japanese counter parts was at a relative low. The story itself is about Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family and the hardships they had to contend with during and after the Second World War. Her parents are first generation Japanese immigrants who have emigrated from Hiroshima, Japan to the United States. The children themselves were born in the United States and so, are citizens of their land. The story begins on a weekend in December 1941 when her father and brother depart for work one morning and are turned back Coast Guard boats because of the shocking announcement that the Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. …
