Summary Of Farewell To Manzanar

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Today i will be using tone and imagery to compare a novel called farewell to manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston about an internment camp that the japanese had to go to and a short story called breakaway that was about a really good basketball that went through a career ending injury.

In manzer it as better imagray cause it is longer so it can explain more while in break away it is shorter so it can not explain as much but it still as good imagery i think manzanar is better just cause it can explain more an example of imagery in manzanar is in page four it said we watched until the boats became tiny white gulls on the horizon. Some imagery in breakaway the short story was justin blew up like a balloon as he watched
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