The book Farewell to Manzanar by James D. Houston and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is about a community called Manzanar during World War II. The community was in the high mountain desert country of California. And one of the first families to arrive at Manzanar was the Wakatsuki’s, and they were ordered to leave their fishing businesses in Long Island and take anything they could carry.  Jeanne Wakatsuki was a seven-year-old child, and Manzanar became a way of life in which she struggled and grew. For her father, he was very close to dying. The father was separated from the family and when he got moved to his family’s camp, he had changed. All of the Japanese people had to live in camps that were in the western U.S. because the government thought the Japanese would commit acts of sabotage, espionage and they also thought the Japanese were apart of secret organizations that helped aid the enemy. The government started moving the Japanese because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. After Pearl Harbor happened more and more people started getting prejudice toward the Japanese. I chose the topic of a specific quote that stuck out to me. The quote is “He was suddenly a man with no rights who looked exactly like the enemy.” This is when Jeanne Wakatsuki was talking about her father. I chose this quote because it really shows how prejudiced the Americans were against the Japanese and this is what Jeanne thought when this happened and that shows how she really feels. It also shows how much America changed just because of one event that had happened. Many Japanese families were treated poorly and cruel. The conditions in the camps that the Japanese had to live in was really rough. Some people even thought about revolting, and some people did.