Bamboo grove final post

1. I loved the end of this book. I thought it was really good because in the end Yoko, Ko and Hideyo all met and so now Yoko and Ko can go places because they have a male guardian now. I am so happy that they finally met because Yoko was starting to get really depressed because they had no money. Now they have Hideyo.

I feel really bad for Hideyo because he needs to find out that his mother died. I would hate to finally come home and see your sisters for the first time in months and the first thing you find out is that your mother died.

Now that they have Hideyo back they can get more food because now Hideyo can work to. I think the Kawashima family's life is slowly getting better. When they first started this trip they we starving and had no idea how to take care of themselves.

Now they know how to get food and water. In the book on page 151 Yoko suggests that they get food out of the garbage and Ko responds by saying " I wont let you do that anymore" in other words Ko thinks that now that they have somewhere to live they can by there own food so they don't have to eat in the trash anymore.

Yoko is getting better at taking care of herself. She is willing to eat in the trash so she doesn't have to spend mothers money

2. The Kawashima family was originally from Aomori japan, where the Cherry blossoms grow. The family even though they lived in Korea they still had there Japanese customs. When they where in Japan they both bought beach other special presets for new years day. Ko bought Yoko rice cakes and Yoko bought Ko Green tea fish and miso soup. Even though they were in Korea they still where every Japanese.

The mother brought the family's sword because it had been in the Kawashima family for years and she didn't want to forget it at there house.

3. I respect Ko the most because she is the one the whole time who is taking her none of them would have survived. Ko was the one getting the food the whole time. She was the one who got everything ready for food, who found out where they would sleep what they would do. If Ko had died so would they have because Ko is the best she is the one who took care of them the whole time. Even though she is young Ko is mature for her age.

Probably second i would have put mother no offence to Yoko but all she did was whine the WHOLE TIME!! i understand why Ko was always mad a her. Because she was the one doing everything and Yoko was just complaining about how bad everything was when she was trying to make it better. I respect Ko!!!.

4. In this book i learned about the Korean war. Basically all the Japanese people who where living in Korea where now treated as trash because the Japanese had lost the war so in the book the Koreans where happy. In the book the Koreans where raping Japaneses girls because they we celebrating there new fond freedom.

I admit that i would be happy that i got my freedom after 50 or so years but i wouldn't go around raping little girls for fun!!. I mean who would do that?

5. Always be thankful for what you have because you don't know when it could be taken away. i used that because in the beginning Yoko wouldn't eat carrot because she didn't like them and in the middle 0f the book when she was starving she would have been happy to eat those carrots.

Always be nice to your sister/brother because no matter what they say they still love you. This one is because all through the book Yoko is always describing how she hated her older sister because she is always being mean and in the end Yoko finds out she did that because she loves her.
All in all I loved this book and hope i can read it again

OP # 4

1. i think Mr. Naido helped her because they are the only 2 people who the girls are mean to in the class. They bath understand each other and are both the same in a way. Yoko when she first met Mr. Naido was really nice to him and she helped him bye making him not studder. So they became friends. And Mr. Naido helped her bye selling cans and bottles and giving her school supply's.

2. yoko thinks that Ko is a mean sister because she stays home after school on new years and so yoko is really mad and she goes to go sell some little doll things and sees ko shining shoes for money for a treat on new years. Yoko goes out and buys fish and miso soup she also buys a tea pot and green tea for Ko. When co comes home she gives yoko rice cakes and yoko gives her green tea after all Yoko knows that Ko is really a great sister.

3 How has yoko changed during the book?

well in the beginning she is a pampered girl who chooses what she wants to eat like in the first chapter she dosen't want to eat carrots and in the middle of the book shes starving and wishes she had the carrots she changes from a week pampered girl to a tough smart girl who knows how to take care of herself.

OP # 3 bamboo grove

1. so what because they start seeing girls getting raped all the time and they are starting to get worried about Ko because she is a girl and you can tell well... because she has "a chest" so they had to bind her chest so you couldn't tell they had to go to the bathroom like guys AKA standing up so after all of that they decided to go to Pusan because from there they can take a boat to Japan where they can go see there family so thats why.

2. i would have because they really had no chose they had to go otherwise they probably would have been killed or raped so they as a family decided to leave for the family's safety yes i know its horrible to leave Hideo behind but they really had no choice.

3. why do you think the Korean Communist army killed there own soldiers?
i mean whats the point of killing someone on your side it dosen't accomplish anything i think he did it because he wanted to show the other soldiers that he "was in charade"

OP #2 bamboo grove

1. well so far i the book Hideo has shown that he is really strong because all through the book he has taken charge of himself and his family imagine coming home and finding all your stuff trashed and your family gone i mean you would have to be really tough to live throught that and also he has waled for a long time and had to throught dead bodies of his people of a clif i would never be able to do that but he did.

2. i would bring my dog first because i lovoe her so much and i would be soo sad if i left her behing. secong i would bring my traveling clothes because when we were waling or what ever we would to i would use them to keep me dry. Third i would bring my expensife toys lie my ipod and my computer hard drive i would only bring thease if i had space. i would bring water and food for me and my cats and dogs i would also bring a mess it maches and a rope so i would do the same thing the kawashima family did.


3. i thin the moast upseting thing so far in this book is when they were on the train that whole part really made me sad with the mom killed herself because the baby died and all the people throun of the train i would hate to see that be done this boo is sad!!