Jeanne wakatsuki farewell to manzanar6/22/2023 ![]() When Jeanne actually gets down and tells us about her own experiences, it's kind of like entering into the mind of a Japanese-American female Holden Caulfield. Simple yet effective-you understand how much Papa left behind in Japan, and how much he lost when he went to America. Tomorrow I will climb it and see what his eyes used to see. She says there is still a hill outside of town that Papa used to climb. ![]() In fact, their stories are arguably the best parts in the whole book. This is why Jeanne gives her Papa and Woody whole chapters that get told from their perspectives ("Fort Lincoln: An Interview" for Papa "Ka-ke, Near Hiroshima: April 1946" for Woody). ![]() We also get a really deep look into how internment affected Japanese-American men. Jeanne's the girl at the back of your class who never speaks but sees everything, and that's kind of what she does for most of the book: she observes other people.īecause of her observations, we get to meet all sorts of other characters in camp, like the half-black, half-Japanese woman who is married to "a Japanese man" and passes as Japanese so she can be with him and their adopted Japanese daughter (15). ![]()
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