Farewell to Manzanar Book Review

Ambar A.
January 17, 2009

Farewell to Manzanar
By Jeanne Wakatsuki

This book is about a Japanese- American girl (Jeanne Wakatsuki) who got sent to an Interment camp after the Pearl Harbor attack. The reason why the Americans sent the Japanese- Americans to the interment camps was because they didn’t want to risk the Japanese attacking the US again. Jeanne’s family and her were innocent but they were still sent there. This book tells you how Japanese- American people were treated after the Pearl Harbor attack and how other American citizens treated them.
I liked this book because I learned a lot from this book. Before I read this book, I knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor, and I was on the Americans side because I couldn’t believe that the Japanese attacked the US. And ever since I read this book I’m not on both sides but now I feel sorry for what the US has done to the Japanese- Americans. I liked this book because it was in her perspective and you get to read what she had to deal with and its kind of shocking how everything that happened to her happened right here in the United States.
I recommend this book for kids 12 and up because the content in this book isn’t that serious. I recommend this book to people who like history from someone (other than the text books) else’s point of view. I also recommend this book to people who like to know what happened in someone else’s life because this book only talks about Jeanne Wakatsuki life as a kid in a different time period than ours. I also recommend this book to people who like to read about Pearl Harbor or Japanese- Americans.
I do not recommend this book to people who aren’t interested in history because this book is all about history and what happened to Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family. I also do not recommend this book to people who don’t like to read tragic stories about what happened to people after wars/ attacks. I also don’t recommend this book to people who don’t like “happy endings” because then you would have read the book and not have been satisfied.
I rate this book a 3 ½ out of 5 because I liked this book but I wasn’t completely satisfied. I have to admit that while reading this book I did get bored at some parts because some parts of the book people just loose interest, and not everyone’s the same so you might/might not loose interest in this book if you read it or not. As I said before I recommend this book to people who like to read about history in someone else’s perspective. I also don’t recommend this book to people who don’t like reading sad/ tragic stories about the past.