This book is titled Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. This book is about the Japanese internment camps during World War II, more specifically the camp called Manzanar. Jeanne and James Houston argue that an injustice was committed here and they are right that there was one, they also talk about what happened in these internment camps. These camps have terrible conditions and are not safe for anyone, the only ones we think of, however, when we are here are the Jewish concentration camps in Germany, but at some point in history there were concentration camps all over the world, not only in Germany. plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original Essay First of all, the reason Jeanne and James wrote this book is to tell the world what happened in these camps on the first page it reads “So we decided to write about life inside one of those camps – Manzanar – where my family spent three and a half years.” (ix). Jeanne was a descendant of someone from Japan and was held in one of these camps for several years with her mother, siblings, and finally her father. Secondly, the authors say at the beginning of the book: “Everyone knows that an injustice has been committed. How many know what really happened inside?" (ix). The injustice he refers to concerns the difficulties and problems they faced every day inside Manzanar and subsequently after their liberation. They faced many, from living conditions to sharing bathrooms, the book says: “The shacks were built of pine boards of the same thickness covered with tar paper.” (19) “Each shack was divided into six units, approximately sixteen by twenty feet.” the size of a living room, with a bare light bulb hanging from the ceiling and an oil stove for heat." (19). Now, this alone doesn't seem so bad, might not be ideal but certainly livable until they put more people. He said, "We were given two of these for the twelve people in our family group" (19) that's a lot of people in one room and some of them might not even be your real family, but they were together at the same time, so they were placed in the same "family" group. On top of that, these shacks they had to live in had no heat. “We woke up early shivering and covered in dust that had risen through the knot holes and entered through the cracks around the door.” (21) these conditions in which they had to live alone were miserable, if that alone doesn't justify having to endure daily injustices, then I don't know what will. The bathroom situation at Manzanar was no better than the room they had, it looked like a middle school locker room. It says that "in the center of the room twelve toilets were arranged in six pairs, back to back, without dividers." (28). This place was cruel and unfair and in no way suitable for life. Please note: this is just an example. Get a custom paper from our expert writers now. Get a Custom Essay Finally, I think people should definitely read this book and books like it because it really gives us a perspective that we wouldn't normally have. We don't know how lucky we are until we read about the hardships other people have faced and of course we can't even imagine how bad it actually was there, we only know what we read. I think the authors of this book did very well with the evidence they used, it sheds light on what Jeanne witnessed while she was there and.