Question

This question is about the book Farewell to Manzanar with connections.

Answer 1

Farewell to Manzanar is a memoir published in 1973 by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston.

The book describes the struggles of Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family throughout their confinement in prison at the Manzanar concentration camp. Such condition prevails when the United States government's internment of Japanese Americans at the time of  World War.

The evidence in the chapter supports the conclusion was in the words of Jeanne Wakatsuki where he described the incident where his father fires his Japanese flag and identification papers, due to this he was arrested by the FBI and baffled when taken to the jail. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt approves Executive Order 9066 giving the military authority to relocate those posing a potential threat to national security.

He had given the description of the situation which was faced by Japnese Americans in the camp which was basically the reason when people removed from their homes unless and was stopped seeing as individuals.

At the camp, the Japanese Americans treated very badly, they have to attain very crowded living conditions, badly cooked food, rough barracks and dust storming in through every fissure and knothole.

There are not adequate warm clothes, many fallen ill from immunizations and badly processed food, and they face the outrage of non-partitioned camp toilets. Such living condition creates frustration which ultimately results in the December Riot. December riots took place when three men are arrested for hitting a man speculated of helping the government.