Question: Farewell Manzanar
- Describe life for Jeanne and her family in the early stages of the Manzanar camp. What are conditions like on the internet arrival? Which details do you as a reader find most surprising, and why?
- Describe Jeanne's friendship with Radine. How are they like, or unlike each other? How does racial difference factor into their relationship? Can you recall examples from your own experience in which race and ethnicity played a positive or negative part of childhood or teenage relationship?
- On page 5195, Jeanne describes you he "Manzanar.' What is this mentality, and how does she resolve it in her visit to Manzanar as an adult? How do you think Jeanne's experiences in Manzanar shape how she sees her life and her ffamily as an adult? What details in the final chapter give you the sense that she regretted her experience in Manzanar? In what ways do you think she found value in her experience?