In the novel, Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston convey the theme, family’s effect on our lives, showing that, as children, experiencing domestic abuse can severely affect how they act their entire lives including increased aggression, emotional regression, and escapism. Jeanne is a victim of domestic abuse due to the way her father is acting. She acts out in different ways including throwing a baton in the air. “Late afternoons, practicing my baton in the firebreak, angrily I would throw him into the air and watch him [ her father]twirl, and catch him, and throw him high, again and again and again.”(Wakatsuki 116) She is experiencing symptoms of domestic abuse, including increased aggression, anger