![]() ![]() People are tense and upset because of the terrible, crowded conditions, lack of privacy, and general chaos in the camp, plus the whole getting-interned-for-no-good-reason thing. ![]() ![]() It's like a massive Survivor episode, only way higher stakes and without the backing of a major TV network. Nothing's really prepared for the arrival of all the internees, and the internees end up having to build and organize much of the camp themselves. Jeanne and her family (minus Papa) finally get taken to Camp Manzanar-if you can call it a camp. This part of the book is all about Jeanne and her family suffering and waiting out the chaos and panic with a lot of silent endurance. Or rounding up all the Japanese Americans on the West Coast and moving them from place-to-place without a real plan (or real constitutional authority). Like locking up Papa and other men like him, who have no real connection to the Japanese army. And you know what comes from paranoia-some seriously extreme (and bad) ideas. Japan's just bombed Pearl Harbor, so America goes into paranoid mode. ![]()
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