Farewell to Manzanar is a beautifully written piece of literature expressed through the memoir of a woman's life as a young child, Jeanne. It gifts the reader with her knowledge and expresses the difficulties and oppression she and other Japanese Americans dealt with as such a young age. She is Japanese American, and was born and raised in America alongside her many siblings. At the young age of 7, she faces struggles during a time of war with her home country and Japan. After the attack of pearl Harbor, the American government lashes out on the American Japanese. Her father was arrested and interrogated by the FBI, accused of aiding Japan in the war, and Jeanne is removed from her home in Los Angeles and taken to a camp with her mother and siblings. Growing up in America, she had been deprived of her nationalities culture, and when she is alongside many other Japanese, she faces ridicule and oppression. Being only 7 years old, she is still innocent and naive, and doesn't understand the extremities of the conditions of the camp, and often sees the terrible situation as a joke and doesn't realize the severity until later on in her life. When her family arrived, the camp was not complete yet, and living conditions were horrible. Instead of rebelling against the authorities, her mother learned the best way to survive was to work together with the other Japanese, and try to make life bearable. Children played, babies were conceived and birthed, and people died. Many children and elders suffered and deceased due to dangerous vaccines, and bad food. In addition to the life threatening conditions in the camp, the Japanese were also exposed to sinereos that disrespected their cultures. The Americans forced them to live in dirty filth in cramped spaces, insulting their cultural values for cleanliness and privacy. The memoir shows the difficulties of adapting to living under harsh circumstances, while expressing the impact of the families separations and struggles. Meals were communal rather than shared between families, making it impossible to maintain traditions. Everyone Shared communal bathrooms, and often families began to separate, and spent their days away from each other, and ate in separate mess halls. Ironically, the Americans attempted and failed to force the families back together. Jeanne's father ended up in the camp, and his life ended there while hers just started as she grew up and matured there. Her father had a difficult time in the camp and went into a state of depression, and deteriorated to alcoholism, as well as domestic abuse against his wife. He was never able to recover his feelings of self worth. In her memoir, Jannae was able to capture not only her strong feelings,but also her fathers as well as the rest of her family members. She describes every part of the camp from beginning to end, and reveals it was the elders who stayed longest, for they had no place to go back to at home and had no energy to rebuild the homes, lives, and businesses that were stripped from them before they were taken away to camps. It shows the suffering of 110,000 Japanese Americans brought on by the US government when a vast majority of them were innocent. This book exceeded my exceeded my expectations. I was amazed how at such a young age jeanne was able to get intouch with her own emotions and the ones of her family and friends, especially her father, and express them in a story later on in her life. This coming of age memoir reveals a dark moment in US history that was repressed and shows the true side of the war and all the suffering the Japanese Americans faced at no fault of their own. The vivid details, dialogue and aspects of the book allowed the reader to place themselves into the story, and see what is was like for the Japanese Americans in the camp. It shows the complexities of her and others having to grow up and develop her character from a naive set of eyes to an adult level maturity under the circumstances her and her family suffered.