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 Carl Heine but it was the fact of them just blaming it on Kabou (who is Japanese) because of what happened in the past between the two and about race. All throughout the trial the attorney of Carl Heine tried to pin point the conviction on Kabou with all of his might but it was good to see that Kabou's attorney kept on fighting back with hard hit evidence and rebuttals. He did a great job with the question of the Susan Marie's boat battery's, and the knife of Kabou's that supposedly had the blood of Carl's and not of a fishes, just to name a few. Also throughout this book prejudice is the main key to the whole trial. The are trying to say that Kabou was the one that killed Carl because of the rivalry that they had over the land when truly I feel that that was not the issue.
