Farewell to Manzanar
Hello my name is Luis and I am going to review the book Farewell to Manzanar. The book that I have recently read was Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. I liked this book because it was a book that always made me want to know what is going to happen next. I think people 12 and up should read this book because of the length and because how it is when the Japanese were hated after Pearl Harbor during the war.
The story is about a girl named Jeanne telling her story of what happened to her and her family in the internment camp and the conditions that she was in. Some conditions that they went through was no one had no privacy, it was filthy. This book is also about the struggles that she and her family went through.
It starts off with her father going out to sea to go fishing, but while Jeanne is looking at them float away in the vast dusk of the ocean, Jeanne realizes that they are not disappearing and it seemed like they are coming back and then little by little they get bigger and bigger.
When they get back her father runs in their house and graves all their Japanese possessions like their Japanese flag and other valuable stuff and he get a bucket and put all the stuff in their and he starts burning it. Then a person says the Japanese are bombing Pearl Harbor. When I read this part I really wanted to know what would happen after Pearl Harbor was bombed. For example I wanted to know if the soldiers in pearl harbor would come and take all the Japanese men for questioning so I was really anxious to see what will happen next. The year that Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese was December 7, 1941 and the president in 1941 was named Franklin Roosevelt. On January 6 President Roosevelt told his Four freedoms speech.
So I think people should read this book because people can see what happened inside of the internment camp and what people did while they were in them and also because this book is pretty awesome and you will really like the book. The reason why you would like it is because it is mind boggling and you would always want to keep on reading the book because you want to know what will happen and what will the ending be.
I think that people would this book because there was a lot of drama and so that would make people wonder about what is going to happen next and so that would make people want to read the book even more.
I give this book an 8 out of 10.
Friday, December 5, 2008
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