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Farewell To Manzanar - College Term Papers

Farewell To Manzanar

School and gender are two focal points in shaping an individuals' character outside of the home. At school, children see other children and how they look and act, oftentimes, for the first time ever. This is the beginning of peer pressure, kids strive to fit in and be liked by the other kids, which leads to them changing themselves to act in accordance with the majority. Gender roles are another part of fitting in at school. Boys want to fit in with other boys and girls want to fit in with other girls. In most societies, characteristics of boys, generally speaking, are physical strength, athletic ability, and seemingly endless energy. Girls' characteristics, however, change between ...

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her life because it is made fitting in easier.
Jeanne seems to have set up her own type of Jim Crow rules, like those in the South. She always had to be complaisant around White people and apologize or be submissive to them even if they were in the wrong. This was not anything that was enforced by law, like in the South, but it was self-enforced because she thought it would win her more respect and maybe gain her entry into the White world. As a junior high school student, Jeanne asked her best friend, Radine if she could join the Girl Scouts. Radine's mother was an assistant troop leader, however Radine's mother would not allow Jeanne to join, solely because she was Japanese. (p. 115) Jeanne, instead of expressing her rage, held it in and played like she was okay with that, and not at all affected; in essence, because she was Japanese she couldn't possibly expect to be part of the Girl Scouts. This implied that because she was not white, she was inferior, making Jeanne feel ...

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Added: 12/28/2004 02:25:14 AM
Category: Book Reports
Type: Premium Paper
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