... otherwise blasé backgrounds and characters with hints or sponge-loads of romantic tinges, depending upon their corresponding importance in Snow Falling On Cedars. Subplot, as well as underlying qualms instilled by difference in cultural influence, plays an imperative role in the full understanding of David Guterson's novel, Snow Falling on Cedars. Many perspectives are possible in interpretation of the piece: for example, interpretation as a romance versus a mystery. Credited with instigating ... the versatility of the novel are countless trivial and more importantly three prevailing s...

• Word Count: 955
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Snow Falling on Cedars," a novel written by David Guterson, is set in 1954 San Piedro Island, just north of Puget Sound. The novel follows the trial of a Japanese American man named Kabuo ... by the police, stolen from, taken from their homes, and sent to camps, and many went to go fight in the war. During her time in the camps we learn how much pressure is put on her to marry another Japanese man and to not move outside of the margins of female edict that were made for her. Throughout the novel, David Guterson ... uses the trial for the murder of the local fisherman in order to show exactl...

• Word Count: 648
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate