Survivorship

In the book Farewell to Manzanar, there is a large underlying theme of survivorship throughout the entire book. There are many different ways in which someone can survive. In "FTM" many factors influenced survival. From living conditions to hospital conditions to family dynamics. All of these things impacted whether a person survived an internment. If the living conditions were bad than it was easy to get sick, but if the hospital conditions were bad than it was hard to get better. So if both were bad than the results would be fatality. This was often the case in Manzanar and pregnant women. The family dynamics were often a factor as well. Many of the families fell apart while in the camp. This could affect survival rate because the members would often feel lonely and would not want to continue. All of these things affected survival in the Manzanar internment camp. For those that survived it was hard to go back to the outside world. Many wanted to stay in the camp for fear of what would happen to them when the left. Many felt safer in Manzanar. So for the Japanese, survival was not only hard in the camp, it was also difficult on the outside as well.

Farewell To Manzanar

This story is about a young girl's remembrance of a tragic event in her life. She is telling her life story to the readers, painting a picture in our minds of what she went through. This would categorize this story into the non-fiction genre. Non-fiction is the genre in which truth is portrayed. In Farewell to Manzanar, the narrator/author is telling her story to the readers about what happened to her while living in an internment camp during the WWII war. Even though she was very young when this happened she was still able to remember it enough the write a book about. She remembers it all so well. Her book takes you to the camp and while reading it, you get a mental picture of what it was like to live there. She is a brilliant author for being able to do this. The book is a great piece for anyone who needs to read a non-fiction piece.

What is Non-Fiction??

According to 4classnotes.com non fiction is "literature that is true or is based on factual events." Most of the definitions that I found are along the same line as this. They all defined it as being based off of true events and ones that happened in a person's life. It can include biographies, plays, poetry, how to books and autobiographies.