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.