Farewell To Manzanar Summary

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Farewell to Manzanar, is written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and co-wrote by James D. Houston. Chapter six, “Whatever He Did Had Flourish”, explains Ko Wakatsuki’s, Jeanne’s father, history. Jeanne called her father “Papa”. Papa grew up in the Samurai class of Japan. He originally wanted to be in the Japanese navy, but he then he backed out and moved to the United States, using his favorite aunt’s money. Papa moved to the United States because he did not like what was happening with his family. Papa thought the “teahouse”, a place that serves tea, that his father started was a insult to the family name. Papa’s goal was to make his name great in the United States. To his dismay he finds himself becoming imprisoned in an internment camp,