Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Judgement?

Wakatsuki never seems bitter about her experience in Manzanar and never directly condemns the relocation policy. Why does she choose not to pass judgment?

21 comments:

amariah said...
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amariah said...

Jeanne never seems bitter about her relocation to the camp even though the camp is pretty much stripping her of all her dignity. Jeanne had a fierce determination to be accepted as an american so even though she was thought of as more of a prisoner than a american she still tried her best to think possitive since one day she could be thought of an
American.

Anonymous said...

i think she choses not the be bitter because as a person she is very strong even though she is treated as a prisoner in the camp.

Corinne said...

Jeanne was never bitter because she was only a little kid at the time so she didnt get the real problem about Manzanar. Plus she was very strong and willing not to be bitter in the first place

Anonymous said...

Wakatsuki chose not to pass judgement because she realized that it was all behind her. She would not be the same person she was when she wrote the book without this experience. I think that in someways she was kind of maybe grateful for the internment camps because without them they would have had to go on living their lifes while the U.S. was at war with Japan and they would have to experience the racism first hand.

FAbassi said...

Wakatsuki chose not to pass judgement because she experienced it all, and she realized that what happend, happend for the better good,after the camps were closed, she felt like the same person she was before, and she wanted the audience to know that we are all equal, and anger and bitterness does not show how it really felt in the camp, and how it has changed her.

Alison! said...

I think that she chooses not to pass judgement because the way she feels isn't going to change anything, it will just make her upset. So i think she just learned to think of it as a done deal.

SarahD!24 said...

Honestly, She was young and didn't know any better. She knew that this was not right but she did not think too much about it. In the end though she figured out that the American people were treating them this way because of fear. Really Jeanne wanted acceptance mostly in her society so she just forgot about what they did to her. Also the camps really shaped her to who she is today, it taught her many things about her family. So really in the end it helped her, it really helped her. So she doesn't really have too much regret and no judgment.

kiaraq said...

Jeanne did not past judgment because she was young when all this happened. She did not know right from wrong so she just assumed it was right. Anyways as she got older I guess she decided to forgive and forget.

loveroflifeisgood said...

Jeanne does not choose to pass judgement, the judgement just doesn't seem to come to mind for her. She was seven at the time and was confused about her identity; American or Japanese. In her writing she seemed very optomistic about the relocation policy. Probably because she did not know the exact reason of why she was there.

Amanda said...

I think Wakatsuki doesnt seem bitter because she knows that revenge and grudges will not help her in anyway to be accepted back into the world. It wont be easy with their conditions and holding a grudge will just make thier life that much harder.

GraceK said...

Jeanne Wakatsuki never passed judgement about the relocation policy because when they were first moved to the camp she didnt know exactly why or what was even happening. as she grew up she still did not act bitter in my opinion because she understood their fear and paranoia considering she has been on their side before p.11

Kelley said...

Jeanne doesnt pass judgment on others because she knows what it feels like to be judged and doesnt want others to know her pain. She also would rather try to gain her place in America rather than worry about who to pass judgment on.

Anonymous said...

Jeanne never seems to be bitter to the fact that she had to relocate to Manzanar. Sure the camp took away the life and dignity she had, but in the end she noticed that Manzanar gave her identity back. She was confused before the move, then when she was placed in the camp and saw that the Japanese were just like all other Americans. Manzanar gave her a place to grow up and learn more about herself and flourish.

Jazzy said...

I think that Jeanne was to young to fully understand what was happening to her while she was in the internment camps. Since she understands now as an adult, she chooses not to get upset about things that happened in the past. She chooses to move on but still keep those significant memories in the back of her mind.

Ariana said...

Jeanne choose not to be bitter about her experience in Manzanar, because she learned something so big there. The camp gave her life lessons, something she wouldnt have learned in the real world. It taught her that she shouldnt be afraid of who she was, even though she didnt realize it untill she had grown up. She wanted to be accepted for who she was and not who she was trying to be.

Kayla Van Hee said...

I think she never seems bitter because she is in a sense thankful for her time in Manzanar. It taught her about herself and about the world. Also she now realizes everything is in the past and she must move on. You learn something from everyone.

Sharon S. said...

Jeanne is not bitter about the camp because she is not old enough to understand the conditions on what is going on with her and her family and why she is being treated this way

NikkiZ said...

I think she does not pass judgment with this. Because all that is going on. She knows there is good in everyone. And i think that she thinks that everything will soon get better

KPeterson said...

i thnk that Jeanne never decides to ''pass judgement'' because she knowns that she is not the only one affected by this event, she is aware that the people placing them in the camps were just doing what their told, and that who ever is truely responsible was doing it mostly to help relieve fear for the rest of america.

Camille! said...

Wakatsuki never seems bitter about her experience because I think that when she was a child she thought it was normal to be in a camp like that and that she was different and people thinking that she was different was normal. She grew up in that sort of lifestyle so it was basically the norm. Also I think that she knows America made a mistake and maybe since she was pretty much judged all her life she didn't think it necessary to judge.