Farewell to Manzanar
How does the incident with the old lady who spits at Jeanne and Kiyo help explain why Jeanne has buried her memories of Manzanar for thirty years?
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The insult was demeaning and hurtful, in addition to the fact that Jeanne was just a child. These incidents were kept buried because they were too terrible to speak of, so the memories were kept alive inside and hidden on the outside.
And over the years we never spoke of this insult. It stayed alive in our separate memories, but it was too painful to call out into the open.Source(s)
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki; Houston, James D.. Farewell to Manzanar (p. 187). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
