by PaulThe school went to Manzanar yesterday. I’m Japanese so I think I was more interested than everyone else. My Grandma and other ancestors went to a concentration camp like Manzanar. When I said that my great uncle Kenny went to the one in Nebraska the ranger said that the Nebraska camp was like Guantanamo Bay. The people gave me these papers of where I could find info about my family that went to the camps. I felt sort of connected to Manzanar.
The ranger talked about what happened when we went into the mess hall. The class got to see many pictures of how the Japanese lived in the camp. She used James as an example.
Then I tried to see how life was in Manzanar by trying to picture the book and put the picture where I was looking at. I could imagine how crowed it must have been in the building with five people. Also in the book I could see Jeanne’s father driving around in his car like there was no tomorrow. The bus drove us past block 28 which was where Jeanne lived. The rock gardens looked so cool even though they weren’t plants. It was cool how they put these rocks in a cool formation. Since it was windy I saw people in there with all the noise of the wind hitting the windows and how much dust the houses collected. All the houses and mess halls had holes in the wall and the floor. The ranger said that they even had a golf course at Manzanar, but that was later on when the war was almost over.
I think that it was unjust to put the people in the camp just because they had slanted eyes. Thank god that we didn’t do they same to every Muslim person after 9/11.
I think you're right about how bad it was that they put Japanese people in the concentration camps. I also think it would have been equally bad if they had done that to all the Muslims after 9/ll. I think that being able to build a golf course when you're trapped in a concentration camp by a government that hates you really shows human inginuity.
ReplyDeleteP.S. What is you're opinion on the Holocaust? I feel sorry for your Grandma.