Response to "Farewell To Manzanar"

The author makes it very clear throughout this novel on how she and her family felt living in the Japanese concentration camps. Especially, when Jeanne talks of religion in one part of the memior. She talks of how she felt when her father would not let her countinue on with her practicing Catholicism. She did not understand her father's views at the time but late on in life she figured out why he did such a thing to her. The nun would not let go and begged of Jeanne's father to let her come back and practice being a Catholic. Her father was livid and turned the nun down. Jeanne became furious with her father at the time but later in life she would thank her father. Her father was stubborn and only wanted what was best for him through his children he was a selfish and self-absorbed person. If one who wanted to become Catholic they would just do it. If she really wanted it she would have went against her father's will and just have been a Catholic. But she did not and she believes it was for the best.