PB+Writing

Carly- Imagery-"Down the gangplank came the rolls of silk, and Chinese wine." These were the daimyo's. 1- Muna was so hungry but he knew that he could not eat the rice cakes. He was so determined to make it the whole way. 2-When the pirate king said that all the people on the boat were his slaves Muna did not know what to do. All he thought about was that he would not be a pirates slave. He was so close to fulfilling his dream he would not let it go. 3- "Muna? Muna?" He hated that name. It meant "no name." It shows that he wants to show people that he is an important person. 4- Muna worked so hard going up and down the gangplank. He wanted to look like he worked really hard in case he got caught and also nobody would notice if he snuck onto the boat for a second. 5- Muna had to crouch between two rice bales for that long trip.He didn't care what he had to do as long as he got to his father.

Brooke- Imagery- "Muna, his face burning, stood perfectly still, resisting the warrior's laughter as though it were a bodily assault." Muna and Takanobu were getting to know each other. 1. He reached out, but this time Muna eluded the friendly slap that he feared might send him sprawling. It shows that Muna can protect himself. 2. Perhaps his father owned such a carriage. Muna is looking at the carriage and thinking about his father as a samurai. 3. For a moment he could imagine that behind the closed blinds sat a magnificent samurai going to visit Lord Kiyomori, chief of the Heike clan in his Rokuhara mansion. Muna is imagining what he can't see behind the closed blinds of the carriage. 4. Muna bowed his head to the carriage-in case it carried his father or one of his relatives. 5. //Little Mother, why did I leave your grave?// Muna stumbled through the darkened streets of the city. Muna is starting to get nervous as he walks through the city of people he doesn't know.

Alexa- Imagery-

1. The feeling buzzed about in his head like a huge wasp. The feeling was that Takanobu stole. 2. The incidident between Takanobu and Plum face had stuck in the boys throat like a bone. It stuck in his throat like a bone because Takanobu lied about stealing and got away with it. 3.His hands were raw and cracked from the stubby ice water. Muna would not stop working though he needed to pay back Takanobu. 4. Muna was still drowsy when he stumbled out of the Red Dog, clutching the folded note that Takanobu had given him to take to Plum Face. But the freezing drizzle soon pierced his thin tunic and made him uncomfortably alert. Miuna had to go to Plum Face for he felt he had more to pay Takanobu back for. 5. Now he could smell the smoke and hear the sounds that came from the direction of the west and Rokujo Aveune. Like pigs at the slaughtering. Muna is so sad because he thinks that Takanobu is dead because he was drunk. 6. For the insatiable dragon had already engorged the flimsy wooden stucture and had gone on, belching flames, to satisfy its appetite elsewhere.

Mercedes - Imagery - (1) The wind off the sea had twisted the ancient trunk and limbs, so that they bent grotesquely against the strength of it, their roots like gnarled fingers holding tenaciously to the rocks. (2) But he fought on through the night, doing the only thing he knew how to do - washing the boy's burning trunk and limbs.

1. //Takanobu is dead. Slap the unfeeling rocks. Takanobu is dead. Crash the cruel rocks.// This demonstrates that Muna can have angry thoughts. 2. Muna is remembering being called no name by the serfs, but his mother had not called him "No Name." 3. Muna is trying to calm his thoughts by thinking of his father. 4. //I must make him like me. I must make him want me to stay on with him.// Muna thinks this because Fukuji is a swordsman and swordsmen made swords for samurai, so Muna hopes he will find his father. 5. Now Muna is out to find his father //and// Takanobu.