![]() ![]() ![]() The events, opinions, and emotions of the novel concerning the trial relate to the racial tensions in the community, caused by previous prejudices and the hysteria surrounding World War II. With the trial underway, memories of a forbidden love affair between two teenagers, Ishmael Chambers and Hatsue Imada, who later becomes Kabuo’s wife, still haunts the Island, along with memories of World War II and what happened to the Japanese inhabitants of San Piedro Island as they were sent away while the hakujin, white people, watched. after the sheriff found Carl dead, tangled in his own fishing net with a suspicious headwound. Snow Falling on Cedars, set in the fictional isolated village of San Piedro in the Pacific Northwest, focuses on the trial of local fisherman Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American charged with the murder of Carl Heine Jr. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, David Guterson stands most recognized by his critically acclaimed book Snow Falling on Cedars, composed over a period of ten years while he taught school. ![]()
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