so far from the bamboo grove

the book started kind of ok.. but it got really boring around the middle, but the parts that im reading now is really fun. there are lot's of parts that are very exciting like the time when mother died and the twist when they have a really poor life and suddenly wins a prize and the get lots of money. yoko started babyish and only caring about herself in the beggining like the time when she didn't even want to share with the new mother with the baby. now, after a few months, she is really grown up and she doesn't live with her parents. she cares for other people now, she helps her sister and she helps around with the work instead of just leaving it for ko. she thinks about her sister, it tells us this when she uses the money that she was saving up to buy her shoes to get expensive food for the new years celebration.

setting

the setting is in North korea and Japan is at war. the main characters are all japanese. the main character yoko is the youngest member of the familly, she has a sister ko and her mother who travels with her in the long journey to Japan. Hideyo, the boy in the familly, gets left behind and he has to travel to Seoul on his own. the father, works for the japanese government but when the war is over, he gets taken by the russians.

courage

my dad isn't good at changing diapers. my mum was out with a conferance and my sister was nearly 2 years old. my dad had to change my sisters diapers, so he started to change it.there was a phone call so my dad went to get it. this was the first time that he changed my sister's diapers so he didn't know what my sister would do if he left her alone. he just went off to the without giving a thought. he didn't close the diaper so my sister began to see what was inside. i thought she would do something weird so i put the diaper in the bin.this was couragous because i did something that i didnt want to do but i needed to do it.