She probably felt that it needed to come to light and be the voice for other Asian Americans . She is no way bashes the U.S. but really just explains the tragedy she and others went through. It is important that she wrote this book for society that did not go through these experiences to know what really happened and to be able to sympathize, because they are hearing it from a personal point of view. Reading about her life before and during the times of the war is heartbreaking. Her father was taken away at the start of World War II and sent to a camp in North Dakota isolated from his family. She goes from talking about her nice house in ocean park with great family meals. To being in a little shack in the desert. “We woke up early, shivering and coated with dust” (21), for a little 7 year old girl and her siblings to have to live like that is disturbing. She then goes on to explain daily life in the camps. Things like the long lines at the mess hall and not having any wayto get an education at the beginning of her stay at Manzanar. Eventually a school is built however, there is a catholic chapel that Jeanne clung
She probably felt that it needed to come to light and be the voice for other Asian Americans . She is no way bashes the U.S. but really just explains the tragedy she and others went through. It is important that she wrote this book for society that did not go through these experiences to know what really happened and to be able to sympathize, because they are hearing it from a personal point of view. Reading about her life before and during the times of the war is heartbreaking. Her father was taken away at the start of World War II and sent to a camp in North Dakota isolated from his family. She goes from talking about her nice house in ocean park with great family meals. To being in a little shack in the desert. “We woke up early, shivering and coated with dust” (21), for a little 7 year old girl and her siblings to have to live like that is disturbing. She then goes on to explain daily life in the camps. Things like the long lines at the mess hall and not having any wayto get an education at the beginning of her stay at Manzanar. Eventually a school is built however, there is a catholic chapel that Jeanne clung