Bambove Grove Final Post

1. I think it was a quiet ending and it was just a time where Yoko and KO found their family and reunited as a family. But i don't know why they don't show the dad in the end. They should of showed how the dad comes back instead of showing it on one sentence at the end. Some issues occurred when they ended the book with hideyo finding his family. But i think they could of put the dad in their to make it satisfying so that we (as the readers) could see the dad come back and how the family really misses it.
I think the ending showed a lot of courage and braveness because of how Yoko and KO stood it until the end. I think they showed braveness because of how they went thought he war and how they survived a moment in our world's past. I think that hideyo was trustful in his family because he believes they will survive on their own without him and i think that is a big thing for a boy to leave his sisters and mom with a war going on. i think have trusted his family a lot and believed they would survive this war. I think this kawashima family has a lot of braveness and courageous.

2. I think that they wanted to try the Japanese culture because they were born in japan. I also think that it helped their family become nice to each other and well manured in front of all of their friends. It is something that is their culture and at least everyone i know wants to know more about their culture and i think that they wanted to know a little more about who their relatives are by studying the manors of the Japanese. I would observe my specific culture like for example the reason my culture became a culture and how they believed in a certain thing. I would be drawn to look into my culture because i think it would be very interesting.

3. I admire hideyo the most for being so brave to his family and trustful. I like hideyo the most because he has courage to go through this war with braveness because he can trust his family and can feel his love for his family. This brother of the kawashima family can have the guts to go for whatever his family tells him.

I admire his strength through the war because he has helped his family when they are in need. He has been there for them and someone who encourages them. He gives lots of hope to his family even though they fight over little things. He is the boy in the kawshima family and the person that i think is the most brave when it comes to his family.

4. I learned that the war was brutal and i learned about a families perspective and how they survived through the war of world war 2. I learned about the things of hope, courage, and braveness. I learned about the time frames of the war and how the past was very hard and terrifying for people. I learned about the history of the Japanese and how the Korean communist army was taking advantage of the fact that the Japanese was defenseless when the Americans hit the Japanese hard with a couple atomic bombs.

I also learned on how the war effected families like the kawashima family and i realize now what the Japanese families had to go through. I think that the they war was hard for everyone and that a lot of people had to go through horrible times. I think most families lost hope but i think the kawashima family had a lot of full grown hope that lays still within them.

5. I learned that human nature can be terrifying sometimes but i think people still believe in hope and survival when theses things happen. There a bunch of problems when the kawashima family helps out people that are trying to survive in the war but they still tell each other they love each other and that they will stick together as the kawashima family always.

I think that this long journey has been full of wonders and also terrible things but in the end everything came to the way it was supposed to be.

op#4

1.Mr Naido helps yoko during there friendship together. Mr naido gives her hope because she is too small to do work so mr naido keeps her happy. They both though have trouble because mr naido stutters and yoko is to young to work. I think that mr naido is helping her is so many ways because of the war and what she has been through.

2. Ko's additude is very grateful and now i think she feels some hope. I think because the war has made such pain to her that she is finally happy that she has a job and is living with some of her family. I think now she is very happy and grateful because of what she is going through and what she went through.

3.Why do you think yoko is mad that she cant work and how do you think yoko could go through it.

My answer: I think because she wants to help her family and be apart of it so i think she wants to work so she can get money for her family. I also think she can go through that bye just helping around the house and telling herself that she only needs to help them and she doesnt need to push herself to get money. that is why yoko is there is to get money for them. She just needs to relax and not worry about it.

op#3

1.a. they want to leave korea because of how the korean communist army is killing all the japanesse refugees. They cant take the killing and dont want to be killed. That is why they are hiding and trying to get out of korea.
b. i wouldnt leave hideyo behind because hideyo has been there for all of them and helped them all so he wouldnt want to be left. i am though more on the side of that they should left him because the communist army was coming and hideyo neede to get to seoul. i agree though on that they should be with him for a while but.... they needed to hurry so noone catches them while there were saying goodbye to eachother. i agree with both but more on leaving him behind.

2.Why do you think hideyo was so protective of not playing dead because he would thought they would steal his items? Do you think hideyo should of played dead anyway or run and hide like he did? And what path would you take?

My Answer:
i think it is because he wanted his special belongings and i think it was all he had from his family. i also think thatr if he played dead the communist army would see him and then just check if he is dead and kill him for real.i would of taken the path of climbing the tree as well because i rather have control over what i am doing then because if i moved while he was right next to me then he would take me down because he was on top and forcing down. So i would do what hideyo did but i want to see what you would of done and why.

op#2

1. i think hideo is nice and kind to his family but when it gets to his family and life choices hes is strong and supports his family because he is thinking of them a lot. But when he wanted to join the communist army he had to fight to get in there and he had to pass a couple a tests.

2.i would bring a picture of my family, baseball, biscuit roles, and a book called ''The lord of the rings'' part 3. i would bring that stuff for one everyone needs a picture of there family. i would also bring a baseball for the love of the game and maybe for defence. i would bring my favorite snack some honey and butter buiscuit roles. then i would bring a book. i would bring that book because i have always liked that series and fightng but i also liked the story in general and it always gives me hope.

3.i find upsetting that all those people are dieing and getting shot at by the communist army. i think it is horrible that this is happening. i also realize that people took this war serious and didnt want anyone to keep running the war. they wanted the war over. so i hated it when the koreans and the japaneese fought and killed everyone around them that wasnt there culture.