During the WWII era, blood was shed, lives were lost and sides were taken. There is still a debate till this day about who was right and who was wrong. On one side was Japan who chose to bomb Pearl Harbor and on the other was the United States, who chose to force the Japanese in internment camps across the west coast and Middle Western regions. Both sides made vital points. Japanese believed because they looked like the enemy, they were treated poorly and incarcerated. Opposing this was the United States, stating that in the west coast lies potentially dangerous citizens of the Japanese race and determined to move them elsewhere. Many Japanese-Americans were seen as the enemy and as a result they were thrown into internment camps.
Throughout the book, Farewell to Manzanar, families that were in California were moved to different internment camps, including the protagonist, Jeanne Wakasuki's family. The United States put these families in lousy shelters. For example, the barracks were unfinished, had bad plumbing, and were overcrowded (21-26). While Jeanne was in camp, she would become sick very frequently because of the food she was giving. Not all mess halls had good food according to Jeanne. Making due with was giving, they began to build on what they had with scrap wood without showing the U.S. how upset they had been. Eventually the camp became more like a community. The conditions and rules of the camp made families drift apart, making it even harder to accept what was happening.
As a whole, many Americans used a lot of propaganda techniques to make fun of The Japanese Americans or portray them as the bad guys by using sources such as videos and posters to create a bias image to influence their decision. In one video, Bug Bunny Nips the Nips, the Japanese that Bugs Bunny comes in contact with was a stereotypical image of a Japanese-American who was short, had slanted eyes, and talked in a yelling Japanese language. During the video, Bugs Bunny is...