Farewell to Manzanar
Cite incidents from the chapter to support or refute the following statement: By revisiting Manzanar, Jeanne comes to gain a new respect for her father.
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Jeanne finds a new respect for her father in remembering the man he was before he was broken. Her father was ambitious, fun-loving, and daring.... she'd forgotten who he was during the years after their internment. Returning to Manzanar made her remember.
As the honks came closer we heard another sound, like a boxer working out on a flabby punching bag. Mama moved to the doorway. We all did— Chizu, May, me— in time to see a blue Nash four-door come around the corner, with its two front tires flat and Papa sitting up straight and proud behind the wheel, his hat cocked, his free hand punching at the horn.I should have been frightened into a coma. But for this once, I was not. Watching Papa bounce and weave and shout in front of me, I was almost ready to laugh with him, with the first bubbly sense of liberation his defiant craziness had brought along with it. I believed in him completely just then, believed in the fierceness flashing in his wild eyes. Somehow that would get us past whatever waited inside the fearful dark cloud.....
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Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki; Houston, James D.. Farewell to Manzanar (p. 199). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
