All 3 Uses of
yearn
in
Farewell to Manzanar
- In camp, and afterward, I would often recall with deep yearning the old round wooden table in our dining room in Ocean Park, the biggest piece of furniture we owned, large enough to seat twelve or thirteen of us at once.†
Chpt 1.5 *yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
- We ate in shifts, and I yearned all the more for our huge round table in Ocean Park.†
Chpt 1.5yearned = strongly desired
- From that day on, part of me yearned to be invisible.†
Chpt 2.20
Definition:
have a strong desire -- often for something difficult or impossible to have