🧍 CHARACTERS
The author and narrator of the memoir.
Who are Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston?
Families lived in these simple buildings.
What are barracks?
The event that triggered fear and internment.
What was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
Unfair treatment based on race or ethnicity.
What is discrimination?
Woody was welcomed and treated kindly.
What was visiting Papa's Aunt Toyo and family?
This character struggles between loyalty to Japan and America.
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Who is Papa (Ko Wakatsuki)?
Frequent storms filled the camp with this.
What is dust/sand?
The order that allowed forced relocation.
What is Executive Order 9066?
Jeanne struggles to understand this about herself.
What is identity?
Jeanne revisits Manzanar as an adult.
What is her return and reflection?
Character who remains steady & practical.
Who is Mama?
Eating here weakened family bonds.
What is the mess hall?
The war during which internment occurred.
What is World War II?
Papa loses this important personal quality.
What is pride/dignity?
The freed internees return to their communities to discover their homes had been destroyed and their possessions stolen.
Some were assaulted.
Jeanne’s brother who serves in the U.S. Army.
Who is Woody?
Early camp life lacked this basic necessity, causing embarrassment.
What is privacy?
The U.S. feared Japanese Americans might do this. (The main reason for their interment)
What is spy or commit sabotage?
The clash between Japanese heritage and American identity.
What is cultural conflict?
Jeanne joins this activity to fit in.
What is baton twirling/majorettes?
Character who had the courage to stand up to Papa.
Who is Kiyo?
This event had the Mess Hall bells ringing for more than 24 hours.
What is the December Riot?
Japanese Americans born in the U.S. were this.
What are the Neise?
At her new school, Jeanne read aloud in class for the first time. A girl in Jeanne's class commented that she didn't know Jeanne could speak English.
What is subtel racism?
Jeanne was not allowed to join the Girl Scouts troop that her friend, Radine, belonged to.
What is racism?