Essay Writing Prompt: Farewell to Manzanar is a true memoir that describes one family’s experience in a Japanese American Internment Camp during WWII. What can we as readers learn from this story? In at least a five-paragraph essay, describe a theme (lesson, message) that this memoir reveals. Connect this theme to at least two other sources (article, film or poem) with a recurring message. Include textual evidence to back up your ideas.
Handouts and Writing Resources:
- Farewell to Manzanar Essay Criteria
- Farewell to Manzanar Tree Map or Persuasion Map
- MLA Typing Guidelines
Online Resources:
- Farewell to Manzanar (Sparknotes)
- American Pastime (2007, IMDB)
- “Remembering the No-No Boys” (About.com)
- “Silence No More” (Kiku Funabiki)
- “George Takei Debuts on Broadway in ‘Allegiance'” (NPR)
- “Japanese Internment in America” (History Channel)
- “Japanese Relocation” (U.S. Office of War Information)
- “One Man Seeks Justice: Fred Korematsu v. United States” (Asian Americans Advancing Justice)
- “A Message from Karen Korematsu” (Korematsu Institute)
- “Korematsu and Civil Liberties” (Annenberg Classroom)
- “Pilgrimage” (Tadashi Nakamura)
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