LB+Writing

Katie- chapter 2 Two lines if imagery

Muna shuffled over as though he were the dim-witted serf the overseer thought him to be.

The bales were piled nearly to the low ceiling.

5 lines or things that describe or show something about Muna and what he is feeling

Muna's eyes strained each time he boarded the boat and climbed down into the hold. he must find a hiding place that he could slip into without attracting notice. "hurry, stupid one!" The overseer called down into the hold. "Ara! watch out! thats pottery. Don't drop it." Muna nodded as stupidly as he could, climbed the ladder with the bale of pottery, and shuffled down the gangplank.

Smith- chapter 3 Two lines of imagery

The warriors blue tunic and trousers were as faded and tattered as Muna's own. His feet were bare except for wooden clogs.

5 lines of what the character was thinking or feeling

Perhaps his father owned such a carriage. 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. If his retainers wore silk, what must the man himself wear? And Muna bowed his head to the carriage-incase it carried his father or one of his relatives.

Frankie- Chapter 5 Muna has very deep thoughts in this chapter because his is very sick, so he has a lot of time to think. These qoutes allow us to see some of what he is thinking. “ His eyes were slower in focusing on his unknown surroundings, but his brain beat out the one thing it remembered: //Takanobu is dead. Takanobu is dead.//” “But when he turned to look to his right, he saw with a thrill of wonder what sort of shop it was, for the wall was hung with swoards.” “ Once again the boy felt that the gods interfered.” “’ I must make him like me,’ Muna thought. ‘ I must make him want me to stay with him.’” “Everything was going to be all right. The swardsmith liked him already.”

Katherine Paterson does a wonderful job of creating images out of words. These are some of my favorite from this chapter. “ A strange guest to be sure. More like a sparrow fallen from its nest.” “ Each tortured breath the boy took cut through Fukuji’s own cheast like a jagged knife.”

Lexi chapter 4 writing: 2 lines of imagery In Awa the poor lived forever under the heel of the daimyo, nor did it ever occur to them they might do otherwise.