"Farewell to Manzanar" Summary Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston. "Farewell to Manzanar" is the memoirs of Jeanne Watkatsuki Houston, a 2nd generation Japanese-American who was seven years old when she, along with her nine brothers and sisters and her parents, was relocated from the California coast to the Manzanar internment camp. For the next three and a half years, Jeanne watched as the family she loved was torn apart by the psychological confusion and Spartan living arrangements …showed first 75 words of 2210 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2210 total…taken from him. Though the poem is written in free verse in some places, and in a prose-like fashion in others, the differences in styles between stanzas illustrate the different mindsets of the narrator, the photographer, and the subject. The pace and wording of the fifth and seventh sections portray Inada's grandfather as a calm island in the flurry of activity of the rest of the family as they get ready to leave their hometown.