With the book Snow Falling On Cedars the author’s dialogue of the plot is very descriptive yet confusing at the same time. The scene for the whole book is the murder trial of Carl Heine and yet when you are reading it is very hard to understand if Kabou Miyamoto really did kill him because of all the many clues that are given out on the trial. We are introduced to so many characters throughout the book especially in the beginning but as the trial continues and you get further into the book the only main characters that seem to keep reappearing are Kabou, Ishmael, Hatsue, the sheriff, the judge, the attorneys, and the sheriff’s deputy. Guterson’s style of writing is so different that it is more different than the other authors writings that we have read this year especially with the author of Johnny Got His Gun which was on the Vietnam War.
In this book we are faced with the murder trial of a German man by a Japanese man and we are also faced with the fact of prejudice that comes out from this trial because of the two different descents. In my opinion with the book it seemed like the trial was never really about who killed C
So with this book being in the cirriculum I really don’t see anything wrong with it. It gave and showed a different tone to what happened during WWII. It showed us the prejudice side that the Americans during that time really had for the Japanese and that even after ten years had passed from the war they still felt that way. It seemed like Guterson tried to take that different approach by tapping into the way that the Japanese felt being Japanese during that time. How it was so hard for them to hold on to their Japanese rituals especially with Hatsue. When she gave us her intake of it and how she felt almost like a person with two characters, one that wanted to hold on to that strict Japanese way of life and culture, but yet loved the American way and couldn’t help showing and acting it sometimes. It really let you know how difficult it was living in America as a Japanese American. Knowing and seeing another side, which happened during that time, and not just knowing the American take of it is what I think allows the book to be different. It is always good to know two sides and by this book doing that in my opinion I can see
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