“What Is Pearl Harbor?”
In chapter one of Farewell to Manzanar, we are introduced to the narrator, Jeanne, and her family, Papa, Mama, and Jeanne’s two older brothers, Bill and Woody. This book starts out on a Sunday in December of 1941 and focuses mostly on Papa who was born in Japan but moved to Santa Monica, CA. Papa was a fisherman and Bill and Woody were crewmembers on his ship. On that Sunday in December, they went on a fishing trip but returned very quickly, which was unusual. Then, everyone out on the dock, including Mama and Jeanne heard someone shouting that the Japanese had just bombed Pearl Harbor.
That night when Papa returned, he burned everything he owned that suggested that he still had a connection to Japan. However, this did him no good. The FBI were out to get the Japanese living in California, especially people like Papa with a fishing license. Sure enough, two weeks later Papa was arrested by the FBI for delivering oil to Japanese submarines. His family didn’t see him for a whole year.

2. Shikata Ga Nai
This chapter focuses on Jeanne and her family, after Papa is arrested. Shortly after the arrest, Mama moves the family the Terminal Island, where Jeanne’s older brother Woody was living. Mama felt more comfortable on Terminal Island because there were many other Japanese immigrants living there. …show more content…
At first it was from the typhus vaccine that everyone had to get. Later, it was from the food. Food was being left out too long and spoiling rapidly, but everyone still had to eat it. This sickness became known as “the Manzanar runs”. To make conditions in Manzanar, everyone had to share the latrine in their block. Each block had their own, but some of them did not function properly. Mama and Jeanne travel two blocks every time they feel the urge, just so they can use a semi-clean latrine. In these latrines, there were 12 toilets in 6 pairs that were back to back and had no