... crossing his path while he was climbing his mast, Kabuo was suspected of murder by the chance that he had stumbled across Carl's ship, and that Carl had left his blood on Kabuo's fishing gaff. Thus Guterson compares impersonal chance to the motions of sea and storm. The maelstrom ... into a stereotype that the Japanese are trained cold-blooded killers. While these two testimonies are largely circumstantial, Dr Sterling's report "regarding blood of Carl's type on Kabuo's fishing gaff "is played in the prosecution's favour by omitting the fact that twenty-percent of Japanese blood is also ...

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... be compared to "fading away" and vulnerability. The thick fog that day was the reason why the "Corona" had to "dogleg to the northeast" and bisect Ship Channel Bank, where Carl Heine at that very moment - chance again - was on top of his boat -at his most vulnerable state - cutting the lantern when a massive wave produced by the Corona, knocked him ... off his balance, and resulted in Carl's death. This relates back to the theme that uncontrollable events affect the course of human lives. Then Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with murder on account of the unfortunate setup of ... the death sc...

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