Creative Connection to "Farewell To Manzanar"

For our memior groups we were assigned certain parts or rolls in our groups about stories we had to complete. The rolls in our groups summarized our views and outlooks on how we interpreted the story. My roll in my group is the connector, which is finding certain parts in the story that relates to the real world or relates to one personally. There was a specific part in my memior that I felt had a speific connection to the real world. It was chapter eight when one of the son's, Kiyo punched his father in the face. The reason Kiyo punched his father in the face is because he was beating up the family's mother. The father turned into an alcholic after coming to the Japanese concentration camp during the World War II. The father was punched so hard by his son, his face was gushing blood. I believe this connects with the reality because it was Kiyo's breaking point. He was sick of looking at his father beat his mother. There are plenty families throuhgout this world that suffer from and abusive father because of alcholism. Kiyo is just one of the children throughout this world that just could not sit back anymore and watch his father continually beat his mother. The father was so stubborn Kiyo felt this was the only messege he could send to his father to stop hurting his mother physically, mentally and emotionally. Not only was he protecting his mother but he was also, protecting the other children in the house, as well. I just did not understand why Kiyo apologized to his father after he punched him in the face? Why would his father desereve an apology? I feel Kiyo did nothing wrong and he stood his ground as well as other children of abusive alcholic parents. In life one has to defend another family member if the other family member is in the wrong. Kiyo's father was in the wrong by beating his wife in front of his other children. Therefore, Kiyo was the only one who felt he needed to impose and discenegrate the horrible habbit his father was displaying towards the mother as well as to the others in their family.