Manzanar
Characters
Plot
Literary Elements
Figurative Language
100
This is the event that caused some Japanese-American men to be arrested and the Americans to imprison Japanese-American families in internment camps.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
100
This person is the narrator and main character of the story.
Who is Jeanne?
100
This is the way in which the Wakatsukis' travelled to Manzanar.
What is by bus?
100
"There was a lot of talk about internment, or moving inland, or something like that in store for all Japanese Americans. I remember my brothers sitting around the table talking very intently about what we were going to do, how we would keep the family together." This passage is an example of this.
What is foreshadowing?
100
"With [Papa] gone, my brothers, like councilors in the absence of a chief, worried about what should be done." This passage is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
200
This person was president during the time the Japanese-Americans were forced into camps such as Manzanar.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
200
This character assumes the fatherly role in the family.
Who is Woody?
200
This is the number of rooms that Jeanne's family of 12 was given.
What is two rooms?
200
"The name Manzanar meant nothing to us when we left Boyle Heights. We didn’t know where it was or what it was. We went because the government ordered us to. And, in the case of my older brothers and sisters, we went with 40 a certain amount of relief." This passage is an example of this.
What is situational irony?
200
"Inside there was an explosion of laughter..." This is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
300
This is the number of the order that allowed Americans to imprison Japanese-Americans.
What is 9066?
300
This is the person who can't bring him/herself to laugh at their situation in Manzanar.
Who is Mama?
300
This is the person we find out is missing from the family in the exposition of the story.
Who is the father?
300
"I was full of excitement, the way any kid would be, and wanted to look out the window." This passage is an example of this type of characterization.
What is direct?
300
“We’ll get this whole place as tight as a barrel, Mama." This passage is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
400
This is the place that most of the camps were located.
What is the desert?
400
This person is married to Woody.
Who is Chizu?
400
This is the part of the camp that Jeanne's mother had the most trouble overcoming.
What are the latrines or toilets?
400
"As we approached, they turned or stood up, 80 and some moved toward us expectantly. But inside the bus no one stirred. No one waved or spoke. They just stared out the windows, ominously silent. I didn’t understand this. Hadn’t we finally arrived, our whole family intact?" This passage is an example of this.
What is dramatic irony?
400
"It seems comical, looking back; we were a band of Charlie Chaplins marooned in the California desert." This passage is an example of this type of figurative language?
What is a metaphor?
500
This is the president who wrote an apology letter in 1993 to any Japanese-American affected by the camps.
Who is Bill Clinton?
500
This is the name of Jeanne's sister.
Who is Kiyo?
500
This is the full meal that Jeanne's family was forced to eat on their first day at the camp.
What is Vienna sausages, rice, and apricots?
500
"I looked at Mama’s face to see if she thought Kiyo was funny. She lay very still next to me on our mattress, her eyes scanning everything— bare rafters, walls, dusty kids—scanning slowly, and I think the mask of her face would have cracked had not Woody’s voice just then come at us through the wall." This passage is an example of this type of characterization.
What is indirect?
500
"I think the mask of her face would have cracked..." This is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
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