Farewell to Manzanar Podcast Recordings Chapter 9-14

In the Farewell to Manzanar podcast, the host summarizes chapters 9-14 of the book. Chapter 9 discusses a riot that was a significant event in the camp. Chapter 10 focuses on Jane's brother-in-law Kaz and the suspicious patrols after the riot. In Chapter 11, Jane's dad is hesitant to sign a survey about serving the army forces. The following chapters explore how the prisoners in Manzanar try to make the camp feel like home. In Chapter 14, Eleanor has a child in camp and Woody donates blood to save the baby. The host finds it interesting how the prisoners tried to make the best of their situation and how they were forced to sign the survey to survive. So welcome back to the Farewell to Manzanara podcast. It is about the book Farewell to Manzanara written by Gene Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. Today I'll be summarizing and giving my opinion on chapter 9 through 14 in the novel. Chapter 9, Jane recalls about a riot that happened in the camp and how it was a pretty major event for the people in the camp. Chapter 10 is pretty short and it talks about her brother-in-law Kaz, which he was a foreman in the reservoir and how he had to go after the riot and the patrols going around the camp were very suspicious and because he had axes that they had given him to protect himself against rioters from everything he was helping the Americans. Chapter 10 they are asked to fill out a survey saying if they are willing to serve the army forces in the United States in combat and duty whenever ordered and if they are going to swear unqualified allegiance to the United States of America and defend America. If they say no they get sent to a camp. If they say yes to both of them they most likely get removed from the camp but they are going to be called on duty and fight unsafely and fight against Japan. So Jane's dad is arguing with Woody about what to sign. He hasn't signed yet, he's really hesitant and that's really what chapter 11 is about. In the chapters after chapter 11 they move to a new barrack and they really explain to you how Jane and the rest of her family and everyone, all the prisoners at Manzanar really make Manzanar try to feel like home as much as they can. They slowly get to leave the camp on outings and explorations and they have all these clubs and they can actually continue and venture out a little more than they were earlier. And then in chapter 14 they talk about how Eleanor, which was related to the Watsuki family, has a child in camp. Now they are very nervous because they don't have enough blood and the hospital is not the best one but luckily the baby survives thanks to the blood donation by Woody. So I found this was a pretty interesting chapter how they had this big revolt and a lot of people turned against the camp and even after that they kind of ease the measures as they talk about in Manzanar USA in the chapters to come afterwards. I also find it really interesting how they actually, even though they knew that they were caught in this camp, really tried to make it feel as much as home as they could and really do as much as they could to make it the best, like you know, keep what you have and make it the best. I also found this survey that the Americans gave to the Japanese pretty interesting because they didn't really have much of a choice. If they wanted to survive and leave the camp they had to reply yes, yes to them and then they didn't want to put no, no because then they would be sent to this horrible, even worse camp. So it's kind of interesting how they basically were forced to sign it even though some people were actually not signing it in order to protect their country.