Critique Of Snow Falling On Cedars
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Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson, is a truthful tale about
a post World War II trial in which a Japanese-American fisherman, the first
American citizen in his lineage, is accused of killing a well known
American fisherman. The accused is Kabuo Miyomoto; dead is Carl Heine Jr.
The book ta ....
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.... back from the war to find the land sold. Their
once close-knit friendship is shattered by their families' disagreement.
They both become fishermen. Along with the Kabuo/Carl tension and
subsequent trial is another relationship filled with stress: that of
Kabuo's wife Hatsue and her high school sweetheart, now local reporter
Ishmael Chambers. He cannot get over the loss of their relationship that
ended when Hatsue was sent to a relocation camp. All of these conflicts
are interwoven with t ....
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