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Teachers & SchoolsDreams, Hopes, and Plans
Farewell to Manzanar is all about dashed hopes, failed dreams, and foiled plans, so it's easy to presume that this book is going to be a downer through and through. But the book is also just as much about how human willpower and endurance can create new and different dreams, hopes, and plans; how, in other words, to create a new kind of beauty out of total dreck.
Jeanne's dream to be a queen is basically another way of saying she wants to be a popular, white girl.
Women in this book are more resilient and adaptable because they aren't so rigid about their dreams, hopes, and plans.