Themes Of Farewell To Manzanar

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The major themes represented in the book, Farewell To Manzanar is destruction of family. The Wakatsuki family were put into an internment camps. Their connection and bond with each other is forced to break when they are put into the camps after the incident of the Japanese bombing the Pearl Harbor, forcing every Japanese-American person into those camps northeast of Los Angeles. Papa was the epitome of destruction within the family, for he was no longer the “strong” one and wasn’t able to hold them all together anymore. Pushing everyone to stop coming together towards dinner time and mostly scattered them to be in all different places within the camp. Not wanting to be together, stuck in one place, but rather volunteering or working. Papa gets

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