... book Snow Falling on Cedars is set on a small island in the Pacific Northwest, off of the Washington coast. A Japanese-American fisherman named Kabuo Miyamoto is one of the main characters in the story, and he is on trial for the murder of another fisherman, Carl Heine, who was a Caucasian war veteran. The trial begins on December 6, 1954, one day shy ... repeatedly flashes back in time. One such flashback shows Carl's mother, Etta Heine, taking advantage of the Miyamoto family, reneging on an agreement made by her husband to sell seven acres of land to Kabuo's father, Zenhichi. Instead...

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... , he thought - blunt, tidy, gruffly respectable, and offering no affront to the world, though at the same time inviting nobody. It sat back fifty yards from the road on three acres of alfalfa, strawberries, raspberries, and orderly vegetable gardens- (Guterson, 69). This description of Carl Heine's home, realistic as most physical descriptions exist, has a more cavernous meaning than simply a layout of ... . Thus the description of Carl Heine's home apparently alludes to his very character. The presence of setting, in its most transparent realistic form, swabs the otherwise blasé backgro...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... , he thought - blunt, tidy, gruffly respectable, and offering no affront to the world, though at the same time inviting nobody. It sat back fifty yards from the road on three acres of alfalfa, strawberries, raspberries, and orderly vegetable gardens- (Guterson, 69). This description of Carl Heine's home, realistic as most physical descriptions exist, has a more cavernous meaning than simply a layout of ... . Thus the description of Carl Heine's home apparently alludes to his very character. The presence of setting, in its most transparent realistic form, swabs the otherwise blasé backgro...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate