Farewell to Manzanar

Farewell to Manzanar - Chapter 6 - 11

At the end of Chapter 7, Papa asks his interviewer, "When your mother and father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?" What does he mean?

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Father is using a metaphor to illustrate the torment Japanese men feel about fighting in the American military. America and Japan are like their parents making this war very personal.

When papa was asked what was in the fifty-gallon

drum be was carrying how did he answer?

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From Farewell to manzanar chapter 6-10