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Family Systems Theory and Farewell to Manzanar
Family roles
According to Bowen Family Systems Theory, all family members engage in role-playing beyond those of the conventional roles of 'daughter,' 'husband,' 'son,' and 'father' in relation to one another. Much like characters in a play, family members have other, unstated roles which they develop as the result of 'triangulation' or relationships with other family members. Frequently, these roles are dysfunctional. At the beginning of Farewell to Manzanar, the father of the Wakatsuki clan, Ko Wakatsuki, plays the role of a traditional, patriarchal authority. He attempts to recreate the dynamic that he regards as 'correct,' with the father's will dominating over that of his wife and children. His daughter Jeanne idolizes him.
However, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the family is relocated to a Japanese detention center where they must live in a collective environment with other Japanese-Americans who are being forcibly confined because of their race. No longer able to eat together with his children and wife, Ko loses...
The siblings are no longer bonded, and Jeanne becomes fascinated with Catholicism. Then, Ko is arrested, ripping him out of the central role he has played, temporarily leaving his family without a patriarch. During his absence, his children begin to move away from his authority even farther as well as from one another. When Ko returns, he is changed and loses the respect of his children because of his drunken, aggressive, and violent behavior.
The other sons take on Ko's former patriarchal role. Kiyo, the youngest, protects his mother when Ko becomes violent. Another son Woody is drafted into the military, effectively replacing his old family structure with that of the U.S. government. And even after the detention is deemed unconstitutional, Ko does not assume his old authority. Jeanne resists her father's attempts to control her sexuality as an adolescent, and Ko is never restored to his old, pure place as unquestioned leader, thanks to the fracturing experiences of detention.
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References
Family Systems Theory. (2007). Child Welfare Manual. Retrieved:
http://www.dss.mo.gov/cd/info/cwmanual/section7/ch1_33/sec7ch1.htm
Houston, J. (2013). Farewell to Manzanar. Ember.
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