The family is afraid about the father because he got arrested for helping the Japanese. This takes place during Pearl Harbor. They dont want anything to happen to him. They are also afraid of the people in the many neighborhoods they move to because they are not used to the environment and cannot speak Japanese which makes them discriminated. They are afraid of what is going to happen to them because they are being forced to move by the government.
The family has a fear of being split up and not being sent to the same internment camp. Their fear of separation has increased when their father was taken away. They know how it feels to be separate and distant and has seen the unfortunate families that had been separated. They know that in their world of inconsistencies, family is the only stable component in their life. And if they were to be split up then their only glimmer of a normal life would no longer be. Another fear is a fear of their well being. Under the strict and poor conditions of an interment camp, The Wakatsuki family does not know the future that lies ahead of them. They don't know the specifics of the whereabouts of their father, and that makes them feels unsure and insecure. In the opening chapters fear plays a major role because in an unstable world, the Wakatsuki family fears their futures and well beings.
the family fears being sepparaited in the evacuation. the father was already taken from them and no one wants to lose any more family. they had planned to have everyone in the same district before evacuation and all marrages be completed by then. the family would go to any precautions to stay together after their original loss. the child is afraid of the chinese. one of her fathers original threats was that he would sell her to the Chinamen if she missbehaved. she met a girl at one point who happened to look chinese and had to be transfered because of fear her father had done what he said he would. she also feared the children at another school. the children there threatened her because she differed from them in looks and language. she spoke english and they spoke japanese
One fear of the family is that the father is being hurt for helping the Japanese. He seems to be the catalyst of their family. The rest of the family does not want anything take place involving his arrest or him being hurt or killed. This tears through their minds at all times and causes insecurity. After pearl harbor, the Japanese are discriminated against heavily. They're afraid the heavy discrimination could get them hurt, run out of town, or killed. They are very afraid of death.
The family is afraid that the father will get hurt becasue he was arrested. They are afraid of this because it happened during Pearl Habor, which was a time when there was prejudice against Japanese people. They are also afraid of leaving their home because they are losing their place of comfort and also thier possessions. -David
As Kevin and Janet said, In these three chapters, the family lives with the fear of being split. They are unsure of where they will go and are not in control of their future. They are in fear of what lies ahead of them because they do not know how their lives will end up and wether or not they will be with their family. They are also in fear of what will be of the father. He was arrested for helping the Japanese out at sea. They are afraid of what will happen to him. When the family heard the news that he was arrested, the mother broke down sobbing. The family had never seen her cry like that before and they were afraid for the fathers sake. They are also discriminated against. They move to many different places where they are not used to their surroundings. It is hard for the family to adjust especially with a small girl of age seven. When she went to kindergarden, she was seated next to a white girl with slightly slanted and when she saw the white girl she started screaming. She was not used to this and she was afraid. The family's life was very unstable; it was a hard way of living.
They have fear that the dad will not return because of his sudden and expected arrest. They are also afraid of their new living quarters which for them are extremely unfamiliar. They hate their sudden mistreatment even though they did nothing wrong. Most of all they are in constant fear of being split up. If they get split up their family won't be together and it would be harder to pull through the terrible horrors of the situation. What if mothers are split from the littler children. The soldier don't care, you are in family in order by numbers. If a little kid is split with another family what would he/she do. They didn't teach their kids Japanese so how would the little ones, or the big ones get along without one of their parents to help translate and help them. -Pablo
One of the biggest fears is for the family, is being split up. Families usually feel weaker if they are missing members. They were also scared because, they did not know what was going on completely. One of the biggest reasons is that the father was taken and, at first, they did not know where he was sent.
After the fathers arrest, which in itself caused a ton of fear in the family they moved a few times. During the time that they moved they experienced things that they never had in there original home. She was scared of many of the people in her new schools and cities. She had spoken English all her life, and had never lived with other Japanese people besides her family, so moving to a primarily Japanese city caused fear and confusion as a young girl. She was also confused when white people started acting hostile towards her and her family. She had never experienced racism before, and having people acting differently towards you is frightening. As a child she was scared of the little changes, and not as much for the future. She was puzzled by the distant ways that her teachers treated her. Although the young children, and older optimistic brothers were not showing to much fear you can tell throughout the chapters the real fear that the mother is feeling. She has an idea of what is to come, and is without a husband after his arrest. She fears for her children, husband, mother, and daughter and son in laws; for her family.
I agree with Pablo that one of the family's fears is for the father, and their fear of separation goes along with that fear. I also agree with Janet and Austen that the father's absence seems to be propelling their fear of separation onward. They worry for the father, and are scared that they may not see him, but their fear of being disconnected has become much more potent and now their main focus is to make sure that the remaining family members stick together. Having the whole family in one place is important to everyone. For the mother, it is important because she needs to feel like she can watch over everyone and know where everyone is. For the narrator it is essential because without her family close at hand she would be lost and confused.
The family fears was that they would get seperated. The kids in the family don't really see what is going on but the mother tries to keep the family together. Also the "cheif" of the family has been arrested. The Japenese fear the Caucasian people because they are being discrimanted against. Also they are harsh they didn't mind the Japanese till the Pearl Harbor incident. "They were a frightened of the Caucasians as Caucasians were of us.
In the opening chapters of Manzanar, two of the main fears that are addressed are the family's fear of their father's arrest and all the prejudice against Japanese people along with the move they had to make and the fear of family separation.
Fear becomes a very large part of their lives, because they don't know how their lives are going to turn out because their isn't any warning before they are moved or arrested. At some points the main character is excited, but behind her excitement there is some fear, because she doesn't know what is going to happen to her and her family.
In the opening chapters of Farewell to Manzanar, fear shaped their life. As others have said, they live in fear that their family will be separated during the evacuation after their father is taken away. Not only are they unhappy they are being evacuated but they also are fearful that their family would be torn apart.
I was also drawn to the fear of school on Terminal Island and the fear of being attacked by a fellow student. She expresses a feeling of not being safe and not trusting other asian people because it was the way she was taught. I think its interesting that most Jews in ghettos felt safe to be with each other but she doesn't feel safe with Japanese people at all.
there are many fears in the family. The biggest fear in the beginning of the story is that they would be sent some where else because of the events that are taking place(world war II). the second of their greatest fears is that the family would be seperated. They all helped each other out significantly . overall the war affected them and all japanese families.
The whole family is very frightened for the father. They are scared for his safety and general well-being. Of course, the whole family is affected by his absence which brings another kind of fear. Not only fear for his safety, but fear for their own as well. Another issue is separation, their fear of being split apart as a family. Not only were they worried for their fathers safety, but also they were worried about being separated from each other. Especially since the concept of "family" is so important for all of them in their culture. Also, it is uncomfortable for them all to be forced out of their home. Their place of comfort and safety. A safe haven in a time when fear is so present in their lives. Discrimination in new places and persecution in others for the way they looked also added to this fear and anxiety. It is one thing when you know for sure where you are going, and that there will be friendly people in that new place. But when people are openly hostile towards the way you look it is frightening. Especially for a young girl. The two major fears in these opening chapters are the fear for their father's safety, and the fear that discrimination, persecution, and hostility bring.
The family is afraid that they're going to be split into groups with the kids not being raised and what they would do to them, such as the father. They do not know what will happen and because of that they imagine the worst. In life, humans tend to imagine the worst case scenario. Plus what the people hear can make it seem much less bleak. The government they relied on for 35 years was going to be there downfall.
in these chapters their fears are mainly family oriented. their father was taken away short;y after the pearl harbor attack. they are afraid for his safety.as they are constantly being moved around they are scared of the people in their neighborhood. they also don't speak japanese and aren't used to living with them. the family is also afraid of seperation. they don't want any more of their family members taken away. they have seen what happens to families that get torn apart. they also know the pain of having a family member lost.
One fear is the fear of not having her dad. Not having him to guide them through some part of there life. This was a major problem for them because he was like the power of the moon for their family in this case. Because he was the one caring the weight of the family and making the biggest decisions. Without him they were lost in the mist and had no idea what to do about their lives then. Another fear was the separation between the family. And the fear of not being able to be with each other living in the same camp and area. Since she already lost her father, loosing the entire family would have been a bigger issue. Her family sort of relies on each other, and aren't really independent on there decisions or opinions. These are some of their greatest fears, family. Family is the biggest priority to her and everyone else. They love each other to death and rely on one another to make the first move in their lifes.
In The first three chapters in this enlightening book about japanese americans in the us during WW2, it shows the confusion of her family as she is evacuated from their homes. They are scared because the dad was arrested. they are scared because the government is forcing them to move. they are scared because the future is hard to predict; especially if you were part japanese living in USA. They were scared they family would drift apart; and they would be sent to different camps. As a child growing up; she is scared in many ways. The get freaked out by the Caucasian with the slanted eyes that went to her old school in California. She grew up admits this war, and was scared most her life. Living in The states mean people hate you. if you looked japanese, it mean you were "dangerous", witch meant you were "bad". The kids would torment her and her brothers and she was scared them. She was young and had to live in constant fear. her whole family was afraid; but her, being the youngest; really affected her life. as she mentions earlier in the book, her life really started in the camps. She grew up during war, and this fear stayed as a would in her soul; one that stretched all over her, because it helped shape who she was. A huge component in shaping her views and ways-religion; with the Catholicism- you cant just be like okay, the war is over. let me take all of the parts you grew up during the war away. she will remember this period in her life forever.
the family is not strictly japanise and takes pride in that. they are afrade of the other japanise in the neighborhood. they go out of there way to avoide them even through there is no reason to . they never actualy harmed anybody. they run home every day to avoide them like a child escaping a bully and in this way it is an irational fear. they are also afraide of change and the goverment and what each of them are doing to the family, which is most definetly a rational fear, because it could easly be the downfall of them. they do not want to end up in the same place as her father, so they have to run. they do knot know what will happen when they tred from there every day life.
After the bombing in Pearl Harbor, the family started getting rid of everything that connected them to Japan. They were also afraid that their father was going to get arrested as a suspect for the bombing. They were afraid that their family was going to get separated. One of their other fears is to be put in a internment camp with other families. They were also sad because they could not communicate within one another because they were not allowed to speak Japanese among each other. Their fear was surrounding them throughout these chapters. Their fear lived around them after the bombing.
The family is afraid of the unknown, especially in the first chapter. They are afraid of the father suddenly turning his ship back to land, because he has never done so before and they can't figure out why he is doing it. The family is also afraid of what will happen to them in the future, because they don't knot what that will be. The family, especially the mother, is scared when she finds out about Pearl Harbor, despite knowing what Pearl Harbor is. Fear of the unknown is a common, if not universal fear, so it is not surprising that the family has a fear of the unknown. The family also has a fear of being split up. After the father is taken away, the mother takes great measures to make sure that the rest of the family is not separated. Despite these measres, there is always the constant fear of ending up in different camps. Because the famliy was required to do so much moving prior to being sent to the camp, moving may be associated with fear of being separated to the family.
The Family is worried or afraid for the father because he was arrested for helping the Japanese's attack on Pearl harbor. They are also afraid of being separated and not being in the same internment camp. Family is the only thing they have, so if they are separated they will fall apart. The Wakatsuki family is scared of losing each other. They are all they have.
Places of fear: 1. When her dad was captured in the Pearl Harbor chapter. You can see how much her family was dependant on him. As the chapter progresses there hope starts to disentigrate as well as there economic situation. There was a fear that he wasnt going to return and they would have to fend for themselves.
2. The narrorator, talks about how when she was younger in a school. She wasnt use to being with diverse cultures. This created a fear for her ever since. It was mostly due to her father keeping her sheltered.
Overall, fear was represented as shadowed and change. There family had to make so many adjustments, due to there loss of the father. That they just were ready for difference. That difference created fear.
One kind of fear in the begining chapters is the fear of what might happen to their family. After the Pearl Harbor attack they knew that harm was coming their way they just did not know when and how. They had to live in the moment because anything could just randomly happen and their family could be immediatly torn apart.
Another kind of fear that they experienced was a fear of not knowing what their future was giong to hold and how they were going to get on in the camp. The mother was the only one who was being rational and everyone else were just trying to be optimistic. I think that everyone knew deep down that they didn't know. They knew that their future was not in their own hands and it scared them. It would scare anyone if your future was controlled by someone who you were prejudiced by.
The first fear was war. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, Jeanne's father immediately burned and destroyed all evidence that he was Japanese in order to avoid persecution. The whole family was fearful for the outcome of the interrogation when the father was being questioned about his involvement with the war, which he was because he sold oil to Japanese submarines.
The second fear was Jeanne's fear to be sold off to another family. She feared to be sold off to a Chinaman (I wonder if that means Chinese) and sitting beside a Caucasian. Because the Japanese involvement in war, Japanese-Americans in the United States faced hostility from other communities.
In chapters 1,2, and 3 in Farewell to Manzanar, fear surrounds the lives of the Wakatsuki family. 1. One kind fear i noticed in this book, was the fear Jeanne's mother had about the decisions that needed to be made for her family, when the government was relocating them. Since Jeanne's father was arrested, for being an illegal immigrant, he can't be the head of the household anymore. This arrest made Jeanne's mother and older brothers the decision makers, although this was because their were so many opinions and so much to plan with so little time. 2. Another fear would be the fear Jeanne had of living on Terminal Island. This is because the Islanders would, "They would swagger and pick on outsiders and persecute anyone who didn't speak as they did. That was what made my own time there so hateful. I had never spoken anything but English, and the other kids in the second grade despised me for it." Even each day after school, Jeanne would fearfully anticipate the threat ambushes while being picked up by her brother only because she was different.
In these few chapters, fear seems to play a common role because of the stressful, horrible time when the U.S. was at war with Japan and the Japanese couldn't be trusted.
The family is very afraid of splitting up because it would make them weaker. The family is also afraid of moving somewhere else because they will not be used to the people there or they wont get treated well in the place they are moving to
I think the two main fears were whats going to happen to the father and the thought of the family getting split up while going to the camps. Both of these are reasonable fears. They are scared about the father in many ways. They want to know where he is which they find out later in the book. They want to know when they will see him which they don't find out. Also the family needs a new leader now that the father is in prison. Woody takes that role at the camp. They fear the loss of part of their family while going to the inturnment camps because they don't want to spend months trying to get a transfer to a new camp to be with their family.
the family is like all other families that went through the holocaust. they are afraid of seperation. during the holocaust families were seperated. mostly by age. young and old were seperated. sometimes sex would determine seperation. in total many families were seperated and the chances of this family being seperated is high. seperation is scary especially for people during the holocaust. in the holocaust people didn't know what was going to happen to them. that being the case people had to make sure if they made it they would stick together. when families were seperated they didn't know if the other part was a live they were scared often gave up hope. being seperated was probably more scary then the Nazi's themselves.
When Jean:s father finds out that Pear Harbor was bombed he has a fear that he will be separated from his family and so he burns the Japanese flag he owns and a bunch of papers. He burned everything that would show him as Japanese man and that would make him be a spy or he would help the Japanese. Another fear in this three chapters would be Jean:s fear of orientals. She is scaered of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc... or any one who has slanted eyes. She thought of them gangtas or hoodlums becuase they spoke in a different language and they seemed so different.
Their family had some fears in the first three chapters. They didn't want to be separated because they would have been weaker if they were separated. (strength in numbers) Also the father was afraid of being considered the enemy when Pearl Harbor was bombed.
One kind of fear could be not knowing where your father is very scary. Jeanne and her family hav eno clue where there dad is or if he is dead. That is something that could provoke fear in anyone. Another type of fear could be her family breaking up once being sent to Manzanar. Becuase Manzanar is so big, it is crucial that her family stay together. Manzanar is a big place full of strangers. Family is a big part of her life and if they were to be broken up it would be something very new and scary.
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The family is afraid about the father because he got arrested for helping the Japanese. This takes place during Pearl Harbor. They dont want anything to happen to him. They are also afraid of the people in the many neighborhoods they move to because they are not used to the environment and cannot speak Japanese which makes them discriminated. They are afraid of what is going to happen to them because they are being forced to move by the government.
The family has a fear of being split up and not being sent to the same internment camp. Their fear of separation has increased when their father was taken away. They know how it feels to be separate and distant and has seen the unfortunate families that had been separated. They know that in their world of inconsistencies, family is the only stable component in their life. And if they were to be split up then their only glimmer of a normal life would no longer be. Another fear is a fear of their well being. Under the strict and poor conditions of an interment camp, The Wakatsuki family does not know the future that lies ahead of them. They don't know the specifics of the whereabouts of their father, and that makes them feels unsure and insecure. In the opening chapters fear plays a major role because in an unstable world, the Wakatsuki family fears their futures and well beings.
the family fears being sepparaited in the evacuation. the father was already taken from them and no one wants to lose any more family. they had planned to have everyone in the same district before evacuation and all marrages be completed by then. the family would go to any precautions to stay together after their original loss. the child is afraid of the chinese. one of her fathers original threats was that he would sell her to the Chinamen if she missbehaved. she met a girl at one point who happened to look chinese and had to be transfered because of fear her father had done what he said he would. she also feared the children at another school. the children there threatened her because she differed from them in looks and language. she spoke english and they spoke japanese
One fear of the family is that the father is being hurt for helping the Japanese. He seems to be the catalyst of their family. The rest of the family does not want anything take place involving his arrest or him being hurt or killed. This tears through their minds at all times and causes insecurity.
After pearl harbor, the Japanese are discriminated against heavily. They're afraid the heavy discrimination could get them hurt, run out of town, or killed. They are very afraid of death.
The family is afraid that the father will get hurt becasue he was arrested. They are afraid of this because it happened during Pearl Habor, which was a time when there was prejudice against Japanese people.
They are also afraid of leaving their home because they are losing their place of comfort and also thier possessions.
-David
As Kevin and Janet said, In these three chapters, the family lives with the fear of being split. They are unsure of where they will go and are not in control of their future. They are in fear of what lies ahead of them because they do not know how their lives will end up and wether or not they will be with their family. They are also in fear of what will be of the father. He was arrested for helping the Japanese out at sea. They are afraid of what will happen to him. When the family heard the news that he was arrested, the mother broke down sobbing. The family had never seen her cry like that before and they were afraid for the fathers sake. They are also discriminated against. They move to many different places where they are not used to their surroundings. It is hard for the family to adjust especially with a small girl of age seven. When she went to kindergarden, she was seated next to a white girl with slightly slanted and when she saw the white girl she started screaming. She was not used to this and she was afraid. The family's life was very unstable; it was a hard way of living.
They have fear that the dad will not return because of his sudden and expected arrest. They are also afraid of their new living quarters which for them are extremely unfamiliar. They hate their sudden mistreatment even though they did nothing wrong. Most of all they are in constant fear of being split up. If they get split up their family won't be together and it would be harder to pull through the terrible horrors of the situation. What if mothers are split from the littler children. The soldier don't care, you are in family in order by numbers. If a little kid is split with another family what would he/she do. They didn't teach their kids Japanese so how would the little ones, or the big ones get along without one of their parents to help translate and help them.
-Pablo
One of the biggest fears is for the family, is being split up. Families usually feel weaker if they are missing members. They were also scared because, they did not know what was going on completely. One of the biggest reasons is that the father was taken and, at first, they did not know where he was sent.
After the fathers arrest, which in itself caused a ton of fear in the family they moved a few times. During the time that they moved they experienced things that they never had in there original home. She was scared of many of the people in her new schools and cities. She had spoken English all her life, and had never lived with other Japanese people besides her family, so moving to a primarily Japanese city caused fear and confusion as a young girl. She was also confused when white people started acting hostile towards her and her family. She had never experienced racism before, and having people acting differently towards you is frightening.
As a child she was scared of the little changes, and not as much for the future. She was puzzled by the distant ways that her teachers treated her. Although the young children, and older optimistic brothers were not showing to much fear you can tell throughout the chapters the real fear that the mother is feeling. She has an idea of what is to come, and is without a husband after his arrest. She fears for her children, husband, mother, and daughter and son in laws; for her family.
I agree with Pablo that one of the family's fears is for the father, and their fear of separation goes along with that fear. I also agree with Janet and Austen that the father's absence seems to be propelling their fear of separation onward. They worry for the father, and are scared that they may not see him, but their fear of being disconnected has become much more potent and now their main focus is to make sure that the remaining family members stick together. Having the whole family in one place is important to everyone. For the mother, it is important because she needs to feel like she can watch over everyone and know where everyone is. For the narrator it is essential because without her family close at hand she would be lost and confused.
The family fears was that they would get seperated. The kids in the family don't really see what is going on but the mother tries to keep the family together. Also the "cheif" of the family has been arrested. The Japenese fear the Caucasian people because they are being discrimanted against. Also they are harsh they didn't mind the Japanese till the Pearl Harbor incident. "They were a frightened of the Caucasians as Caucasians were of us.
In the opening chapters of Manzanar, two of the main fears that are addressed are the family's fear of their father's arrest and all the prejudice against Japanese people along with the move they had to make and the fear of family separation.
Fear becomes a very large part of their lives, because they don't know how their lives are going to turn out because their isn't any warning before they are moved or arrested. At some points the main character is excited, but behind her excitement there is some fear, because she doesn't know what is going to happen to her and her family.
In the opening chapters of Farewell to Manzanar, fear shaped their life. As others have said, they live in fear that their family will be separated during the evacuation after their father is taken away. Not only are they unhappy they are being evacuated but they also are fearful that their family would be torn apart.
I was also drawn to the fear of school on Terminal Island and the fear of being attacked by a fellow student. She expresses a feeling of not being safe and not trusting other asian people because it was the way she was taught. I think its interesting that most Jews in ghettos felt safe to be with each other but she doesn't feel safe with Japanese people at all.
there are many fears in the family. The biggest fear in the beginning of the story is that they would be sent some where else because of the events that are taking place(world war II). the second of their greatest fears is that the family would be seperated. They all helped each other out significantly . overall the war affected them and all japanese families.
The whole family is very frightened for the father. They are scared for his safety and general well-being. Of course, the whole family is affected by his absence which brings another kind of fear. Not only fear for his safety, but fear for their own as well. Another issue is separation, their fear of being split apart as a family. Not only were they worried for their fathers safety, but also they were worried about being separated from each other. Especially since the concept of "family" is so important for all of them in their culture. Also, it is uncomfortable for them all to be forced out of their home. Their place of comfort and safety. A safe haven in a time when fear is so present in their lives. Discrimination in new places and persecution in others for the way they looked also added to this fear and anxiety. It is one thing when you know for sure where you are going, and that there will be friendly people in that new place. But when people are openly hostile towards the way you look it is frightening. Especially for a young girl. The two major fears in these opening chapters are the fear for their father's safety, and the fear that discrimination, persecution, and hostility bring.
oops, i used my brothers account. This it Zoya.
The family is afraid that they're going to be split into groups with the kids not being raised and what they would do to them, such as the father. They do not know what will happen and because of that they imagine the worst. In life, humans tend to imagine the worst case scenario. Plus what the people hear can make it seem much less bleak. The government they relied on for 35 years was going to be there downfall.
also this is Kevin
in these chapters their fears are mainly family oriented. their father was taken away short;y after the pearl harbor attack. they are afraid for his safety.as they are constantly being moved around they are scared of the people in their neighborhood. they also don't speak japanese and aren't used to living with them. the family is also afraid of seperation. they don't want any more of their family members taken away. they have seen what happens to families that get torn apart. they also know the pain of having a family member lost.
One fear is the fear of not having her dad. Not having him to guide them through some part of there life. This was a major problem for them because he was like the power of the moon for their family in this case. Because he was the one caring the weight of the family and making the biggest decisions. Without him they were lost in the mist and had no idea what to do about their lives then.
Another fear was the separation between the family. And the fear of not being able to be with each other living in the same camp and area. Since she already lost her father, loosing the entire family would have been a bigger issue. Her family sort of relies on each other, and aren't really independent on there decisions or opinions.
These are some of their greatest fears, family. Family is the biggest priority to her and everyone else. They love each other to death and rely on one another to make the first move in their lifes.
In The first three chapters in this enlightening book about japanese americans in the us during WW2, it shows the confusion of her family as she is evacuated from their homes. They are scared because the dad was arrested. they are scared because the government is forcing them to move. they are scared because the future is hard to predict; especially if you were part japanese living in USA. They were scared they family would drift apart; and they would be sent to different camps. As a child growing up; she is scared in many ways. The get freaked out by the Caucasian with the slanted eyes that went to her old school in California. She grew up admits this war, and was scared most her life. Living in The states mean people hate you. if you looked japanese, it mean you were "dangerous", witch meant you were "bad". The kids would torment her and her brothers and she was scared them. She was young and had to live in constant fear. her whole family was afraid; but her, being the youngest; really affected her life. as she mentions earlier in the book, her life really started in the camps. She grew up during war, and this fear stayed as a would in her soul; one that stretched all over her, because it helped shape who she was. A huge component in shaping her views and ways-religion; with the Catholicism- you cant just be like okay, the war is over. let me take all of the parts you grew up during the war away. she will remember this period in her life forever.
the family is not strictly japanise and takes pride in that. they are afrade of the other japanise in the neighborhood. they go out of there way to avoide them even through there is no reason to . they never actualy harmed anybody. they run home every day to avoide them like a child escaping a bully and in this way it is an irational fear. they are also afraide of change and the goverment and what each of them are doing to the family, which is most definetly a rational fear, because it could easly be the downfall of them. they do not want to end up in the same place as her father, so they have to run. they do knot know what will happen when they tred from there every day life.
After the bombing in Pearl Harbor, the family started getting rid of everything that connected them to Japan. They were also afraid that their father was going to get arrested as a suspect for the bombing. They were afraid that their family was going to get separated. One of their other fears is to be put in a internment camp with other families. They were also sad because they could not communicate within one another because they were not allowed to speak Japanese among each other. Their fear was surrounding them throughout these chapters. Their fear lived around them after the bombing.
The family is afraid of the unknown, especially in the first chapter. They are afraid of the father suddenly turning his ship back to land, because he has never done so before and they can't figure out why he is doing it. The family is also afraid of what will happen to them in the future, because they don't knot what that will be. The family, especially the mother, is scared when she finds out about Pearl Harbor, despite knowing what Pearl Harbor is. Fear of the unknown is a common, if not universal fear, so it is not surprising that the family has a fear of the unknown.
The family also has a fear of being split up. After the father is taken away, the mother takes great measures to make sure that the rest of the family is not separated. Despite these measres, there is always the constant fear of ending up in different camps. Because the famliy was required to do so much moving prior to being sent to the camp, moving may be associated with fear of being separated to the family.
The Family is worried or afraid for the father because he was arrested for helping the Japanese's attack on Pearl harbor. They are also afraid of being separated and not being in the same internment camp. Family is the only thing they have, so if they are separated they will fall apart. The Wakatsuki family is scared of losing each other. They are all they have.
Places of fear:
1. When her dad was captured in the Pearl Harbor chapter. You can see how much her family was dependant on him. As the chapter progresses there hope starts to disentigrate as well as there economic situation. There was a fear that he wasnt going to return and they would have to fend for themselves.
2. The narrorator, talks about how when she was younger in a school. She wasnt use to being with diverse cultures. This created a fear for her ever since. It was mostly due to her father keeping her sheltered.
Overall, fear was represented as shadowed and change. There family had to make so many adjustments, due to there loss of the father. That they just were ready for difference. That difference created fear.
One kind of fear in the begining chapters is the fear of what might happen to their family. After the Pearl Harbor attack they knew that harm was coming their way they just did not know when and how. They had to live in the moment because anything could just randomly happen and their family could be immediatly torn apart.
Another kind of fear that they experienced was a fear of not knowing what their future was giong to hold and how they were going to get on in the camp. The mother was the only one who was being rational and everyone else were just trying to be optimistic. I think that everyone knew deep down that they didn't know. They knew that their future was not in their own hands and it scared them. It would scare anyone if your future was controlled by someone who you were prejudiced by.
The first fear was war. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, Jeanne's father immediately burned and destroyed all evidence that he was Japanese in order to avoid persecution. The whole family was fearful for the outcome of the interrogation when the father was being questioned about his involvement with the war, which he was because he sold oil to Japanese submarines.
The second fear was Jeanne's fear to be sold off to another family. She feared to be sold off to a Chinaman (I wonder if that means Chinese) and sitting beside a Caucasian. Because the Japanese involvement in war, Japanese-Americans in the United States faced hostility from other communities.
In chapters 1,2, and 3 in Farewell to Manzanar, fear surrounds the lives of the Wakatsuki family.
1. One kind fear i noticed in this book, was the fear Jeanne's mother had about the decisions that needed to be made for her family, when the government was relocating them. Since Jeanne's father was arrested, for being an illegal immigrant, he can't be the head of the household anymore. This arrest made Jeanne's mother and older brothers the decision makers, although this was because their were so many opinions and so much to plan with so little time.
2. Another fear would be the fear Jeanne had of living on Terminal Island. This is because the Islanders would, "They would swagger and pick on outsiders and persecute anyone who didn't speak as they did. That was what made my own time there so hateful. I had never spoken anything but English, and the other kids in the second grade despised me for it." Even each day after school, Jeanne would fearfully anticipate the threat ambushes while being picked up by her brother only because she was different.
In these few chapters, fear seems to play a common role because of the stressful, horrible time when the U.S. was at war with Japan and the Japanese couldn't be trusted.
The family is very afraid of splitting up because it would make them weaker. The family is also afraid of moving somewhere else because they will not be used to the people there or they wont get treated well in the place they are moving to
I think the two main fears were whats going to happen to the father and the thought of the family getting split up while going to the camps. Both of these are reasonable fears. They are scared about the father in many ways. They want to know where he is which they find out later in the book. They want to know when they will see him which they don't find out. Also the family needs a new leader now that the father is in prison. Woody takes that role at the camp. They fear the loss of part of their family while going to the inturnment camps because they don't want to spend months trying to get a transfer to a new camp to be with their family.
the family is like all other families that went through the holocaust. they are afraid of seperation. during the holocaust families were seperated. mostly by age. young and old were seperated. sometimes sex would determine seperation. in total many families were seperated and the chances of this family being seperated is high. seperation is scary especially for people during the holocaust. in the holocaust people didn't know what was going to happen to them. that being the case people had to make sure if they made it they would stick together. when families were seperated they didn't know if the other part was a live they were scared often gave up hope. being seperated was probably more scary then the Nazi's themselves.
When Jean:s father finds out that Pear Harbor was bombed he has a fear that he will be separated from his family and so he burns the Japanese flag he owns and a bunch of papers. He burned everything that would show him as Japanese man and that would make him be a spy or he would help the Japanese. Another fear in this three chapters would be Jean:s fear of orientals. She is scaered of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc... or any one who has slanted eyes. She thought of them gangtas or hoodlums becuase they spoke in a different language and they seemed so different.
Their family had some fears in the first three chapters. They didn't want to be separated because they would have been weaker if they were separated. (strength in numbers) Also the father was afraid of being considered the enemy when Pearl Harbor was bombed.
One kind of fear could be not knowing where your father is very scary. Jeanne and her family hav eno clue where there dad is or if he is dead. That is something that could provoke fear in anyone. Another type of fear could be her family breaking up once being sent to Manzanar. Becuase Manzanar is so big, it is crucial that her family stay together. Manzanar is a big place full of strangers. Family is a big part of her life and if they were to be broken up it would be something very new and scary.
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