Summary Of Farewell To Manzanar

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The conflict in all three of the stories is that the people are unjustly persecuted based on their skin, looks or religion. However, for one of them, it was both heritage and religion. They all overcame each prejudice in a different way, and some did nothing at all. In Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne doesn’t rebel or act out against something because it upsets her; she simply allows for it to happen, like the interned Issei. Although, to some extent, she knows that it’s wrong, she’s a scared child and has no idea what was to happen if she did act out. In Anger at Paris Attacks, the Muslims are being prosecuted for their heritage and religion. In History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, the Muslim community is being persecuted again, but this time, it’s for a different reason, but the same problem, due to that people were still angry about the previous reason. …show more content…
She is immediately deemed the enemy, based on her oriental heritage. The internment of the Japanese was unconstitutional, and had three court cases until it was finally considered such. The conflict was that one group of people had been harmed by a another group of people, and the people whom had been harmed blamed the people who looked like the people who had harmed them. The Japanese were minorities, so it wasn’t as if making a court case was easy. The Issei in the internment camp accepted “ what must be done,” and decided that with their age, whatever happened would have no great effect on their lives. However, in Ex Parte Endo, a court case which finally ruled Japanese internment camps