The historical fiction novel, Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, nurtures the voices of the Manzanar internment camp from 1942- 1944. Beneath the palpable emotions that are lisped from the hearth of every soul, Farewell to Manzanar highlights the significance of a pastime tarnished in blight and celebrates the potent in memories gone astray.
Throughout her perspectives of war and survival, Houston gains the audience's sympathy by communicating her ideas with a forgiving conclusion. Despite the struggles that brought numerous prostheses into her childhood, Houston does not inflict any animosity beneath her words, as if acceptance had induced her to condone the unexpected and relish both new and old.
Furthermore, Houston's abstinence of elaborate description allows readers to feel the incisive impact of her raw emotions. By refraining from the usage of long and course vocabulary, she brings a sense of levity into her conversation, yet balancing the effect for her sediment to pierce through.
Throughout her perspectives of war and survival, Houston gains the audience's sympathy by communicating her ideas with a forgiving conclusion. Despite the struggles that brought numerous prostheses into her childhood, Houston does not inflict any animosity beneath her words, as if acceptance had induced her to condone the unexpected and relish both new and old.
Furthermore, Houston's abstinence of elaborate description allows readers to feel the incisive impact of her raw emotions. By refraining from the usage of long and course vocabulary, she brings a sense of levity into her conversation, yet balancing the effect for her sediment to pierce through.
The theme of Farewell to Manzanar echoes from the value of memories , the stimulant for propelling one forward, even when they ultimately bring past and present farther apart. To neglect distant pastimes, whether cherished or grieved, often results in the disintegration of the soul; for every minute deducted gains a new understanding of the identity, eventually to corroborate to a new image, an unknown legacy. Although memories cannot be constituted to possessions of tangible value, their abstract nature gives people a beacon into the past even as time condemns the world with change and undesirable affairs. When youth fades to the spiritual crisis brought by age, there remains a consolation in the presence of the irrevocable, for smiles live on in the voices of others as a memory - a story of indefinite impact as it trails countless footprints.
Like Liesel, Jeanne confronted the trauma requisite with the coming and fading of every war and faced struggles that threatened to tear her family apart. While Liesel undertook the challenge of adapting into a new environment, Jeanne eyed the conflict of self-acceptance and the mirage that often obscured her vision of reality.
In addition, while Liesel was only confined to the limits of her neighborhood, Jeanne literally lived behind "a barbed wire" during her internment at Manzanar. Yet, she gave herself a chance at freedom by exploring the various activities Manzanar upheld during the year of 1943, and she glimpsed the end of the restraints that bound her to the arid desert soil. Similarly, Liesel endeavored for self-improvement by scoping the art of reading, and this eventually sparked her alternate identity, "the book thief."
In addition, while Liesel was only confined to the limits of her neighborhood, Jeanne literally lived behind "a barbed wire" during her internment at Manzanar. Yet, she gave herself a chance at freedom by exploring the various activities Manzanar upheld during the year of 1943, and she glimpsed the end of the restraints that bound her to the arid desert soil. Similarly, Liesel endeavored for self-improvement by scoping the art of reading, and this eventually sparked her alternate identity, "the book thief."
Although people recall a beginning and an end, they can never quite recollect the hues that interchange with each passing hour, the colors ever-changing. Farewell to Manzanar strives to illuminate the past in a brighter light and exemplifies how the future will only become reality if we cherish our memories - the scaffolding that supports all we promise ourselves to be.
