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PLOT STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
Farewell to Manzanar is an autobiographical memoir that spans a large portion of the life of Jeanne Wakatsuki, the author.
The book opens with a Foreword that serves as an introduction to the problems that will be presented and solved in the narrative. It then proceeds to tell the events of Jeanne's life chronologically, with some analysis and reflective interpretation.
Is farewell to manzanar an autobiography frankenmuth
The final chapter jumps forward in time, thirty years later, when the author is an adult, the mother of three children and a sociologist; it sums up Jeanne's experience at Manzanar and tries to make some final meaning out of it.
The memoir is unified by the presence of Jeanne throughout the book. As she tells about her life, from childhood to adulthood, the author often intrudes on the narrative to give an opini