Summary Of Manzanar Jeanne

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In the early part of farwell to manzanar jeanne the main character was a 7 year old girl living in long beach with her family that happens to be of japanese descent. before she was moved to manzanar she had not really seen many japanese people other than her family and did not experience racism. Pre manznar she was living in long beach with the rest of her family there lives where very modest they where your average working class americans jeanne

















While Jeanne was in manzanar she was scared of the japanese people around her because up to that point the only japanese people was in her family and the ones in terminal island. Her father didn’t want her to be a catholic because her father doesn’t want her to have the same

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