Character and Chapter 1

Characters:
Grampa Joji
Billy Davis
Kimi (Tomis little sister)
Tomi
Jake
Keet Willson
Papa

Words:
Suitable: Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion

Plot:
This chapter is about Tomi a japanese boy that's papa like to show off his japanese heritage and that Tomi didn't like it when his papa puts the flag up. so one day him and his friend Billy came home from school Tomi saw his papa putting the flag up and Tomi told him that he should not put it up because they were still in war and that the landlowerd wont like it. So mama came out and told papa "Why don't you listen to your grandson and Mr.Wilson no like that kind.You could lose the house. So after mama left then Billy and Tomi ran away and went to the forest where papas pigeons and found Keet and his friend over with a stick by the pigeons cage they looked back at the same time to look to see if papa went into the house and just went to talk to keet them and that was the end of chapter one.

Chapter 2

Hana-Kuso: Booger

Plot: This chapter is about Tomi and Keet used to be friends but then Keet started to be busy and Keets mom told Tomi that Keet wan't home and that he is out with his dad or he can't come outside. But then one day Keet answered the door and told Tomi to go away and I don't want to play with you anymore so Tomi showed him his knife that he found and Keet told him "this is mine." so Tomi was tring to get it back but Keet pused him and told him to go away and they go into a fight and Papa asked Tomi what is all that bruses and cuts on your arm so Tomi told him and papa didn't want Tomi to discrase the Nakaji name again. When Papa went to sleep Mama called Tomi and was talking to Tomi and asked him what do you think about that boy Keet Tomi didn't know what to say so mama said what ever you think about that boy do you want other people to think that about you and they went to sleep.

Other: I thought that Hana-kuso because Tomi called Keet that when he started to bang the bird cages. The pigion in this book is really funny because some poeple can't read it but most of us can.

Chapter 3

Words:
Tumbler: A gymnast who performs rolls and somersaults and twists etc.
A glass with a flat bottom but no handle or stem; originally had a round bottom.
A movable obstruction in a lock that must be adjusted to a given position (as by a key) before the bolt can be thrown
roller: Pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground Notre:

Stecco: Twig; stick; beanpole (thin person)

Newness: The quality of being new; the opposite of oldness

Convoys: A convoy is a group of vehicles (of any type, but usually motor vehicles or ships) traveling together for mutual support. ...


Howiters: A muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range

Plot: Chapter is about Mose and Rico Corteles and Tomi, and Billy coming to school and then Rico telling them about hiss scar on his chin and elling them that he got it from a gang fight. and Rico asked Billy how he got his scar and Billy told him that he got it from a gang fight to but Rico already knew that Billy didn't get the cut from a gang because rich haole people don't get into fights but Billy thought that it was a pretty good story so that some people think that all people don't always not get into trouble and some can.

Other: This is kinda weard because Billy didn't want to tell them that they go into a fight with Keet and he told him that he got into a gang fight but he didn't.

Chapter 4

This chapter was about Billy them walking to the bus to go home and Mose gave Billy a baseball for a present and that Luckey didn't eat that much but she is pregnet and she is going to have puppies and that Rufus is to big to be fooling around with a begle and that Papa is to rough to have a puppy because he might drown them because one day Lucky chased Papa's chickens and Papa threw her into a roce bag and was going to throw her to sea. So Billy and went to Tomi's hopuse and was looking around and he saw the butsudan and he asked Tomi what is that? Ohh that is the butsudan and tat is to remember my grandma because she died and my grandpa talks to her and her spirit helps him guides him through the pain and if you have any trouble then you can go and talk to her it is like she is there talking to you and you don't have to leave home to go to a grave you can just stay here and just talk.

Chapter 5

word:

itadakimatsau: it means lets eat

gochisohsama: it means youre done eating
kerosene: combustible hydrocarbon liquid
sanji: three o' clock

plot: in this chapter tomi and his papa take billy out to go fishing and they see a p-40 tomahawk and a new character is introduced named sanji

other did you know sharks are more scavenger than predator

chapter 6

words
glowered: to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger

plot
in this chapter they went fishing and billy and sanji became friends billy and tomi both caught really big fish and billy gave some fish to keet and there was some fore shadowing adout keet spying on them

Chapter 7

plot: in this chapter there is a baseball game and keet is running through the woods pretending to shoot nazis and billy and tomi both bet on the game and the doggers lost to the yankies and a new character is introduced named charlie

other: did you know hitler died because he did crack and that killed his immune system so when he shot him self in the shoilder he died of the infection he shot him self because he found out he was jewish

Chapter 8

This chapter is about Lucky giving birth to puppies and the mongoses tring to eat them. Luck woke up Tomi and Papa so they went under and found the mongoses ready to eat them and Tomi scared them away. Papa was thinking about drowning them but nobody was willing to drown them so Mama said that Tomi can keep them as long as he can get food for the dogs but when the get older then Tomi can only keep 1 and sell the rest. After Billy came over and was playing with the puppies all day and then he was talking about that he wanted one but he didn't know if it was a girl or a boy. Billy went home and saw the army people with the spot lights out look out toward the ocean, Moutains, and the sky looking for anymore japanese people that will bomb them.

Chapter 9

Words:
centipede: chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified..

Plot: in this chapter the kakaako base ball team gets a new pitcher and he is good but has no controll over the ball and billy and the gang almost get into a fight if it wasent for a stranger. They went to the baseball feld and saw the new pitcher and they call him the butcher and the reason why is because he pitches very fast as fast as a bullet. But the problem is that he doesn't know how for pitch strate and he might take someones head off. Billy wanted to show him how to pitch strate so that he don't take off someones head.

Chapter 10

Words:

plot: This chapter is about Tomi going to the Wilsons house and finding a bullet hole in the screen door. He walked in and heard Mr. Wilson yelling at Keet and telling him that he has to get out of the house because he doesn't want to see his ugly stupid face again. Then Billy and Tomi went to Billy's house because the Japanese were bombing the Pearl Harbor and they were up in the tree and watching the planes go by. Then Tomi remembered that they were japanese planes and they ran out into the feld and grandpa came out of the forest and was waving his Japanese flag all around and then Tomi told them to go home and then Billy picked up the flag and tryed to hide it. When they got home Billy told them that he had to go home and listen to the radio. Then they went and heard the bullets come out the plane.

Chapter 11

Words:


Plot: This chapter is about the Japanese planes still bombing. Tomi , Billy, And Charlie was at Charlie's house listening to the radio. After Tomi wen't home and saw mama in the kitchen and he couldn't find Papa so after about 20 min Mama told Tomi to go find Kimi. Tomi found her in the closet and told her to come out because it was safe. But she didn't want to come out because she still thought that the Japanese were still bombing them. Tomi told her if she want's Azuki Bean and she said "yes." So Tomi went to get him and found Lucky trumbling under the house. Tomi took the puppy and went back out. But at night Papa left again. Tomi went to go look for him and found him on the bottom of the steps. Papa told him that they were digging graves for Soldiers.

Chapter 12 &13

Plot: This chapter was about the American army people came to Tomis house and asked them if they saw someone with a japanese flag signaling them. Then they told papa to kill the birds because they might be messenger birds so they all went and killed them all and then Tomi went to go look if the birds came ba[ck but nothing.

Plot: Chapter 13 was about Charlie coming to Tomi's house to talk to mama and grandpa. He said that the americans are killing any Japanese people that come out and are shooting any boat that comes in to the harbor with out a american flag on it. Then Grandpa went to go check the boats and didn't come back home until morning. Then grandpa told everyone that Sanji had died from a shoot in the leg and had arrested him.

Chapter 14

This chapter is about Tomi going to Billy's house because they never talked to eachother for a long time. So Tomi went to ga talk to him and found him and his cousin in the back yard digging a hole for the bombing again. So after a while they went out and went to a tree and found a tree that was burnt and took out som bomb's out of it. Then Tomi asked if they wanted to go play baseball or just throw the ball around. So they we nt and go them. ans played for alittle while.

Chapter 15

This chapter is about Tomi, Billy going to the police station and asking a police man if they could see tomi's father. Then Tomi went home and went to go find grandpa and found him in a mosquito forest. Then he saw Charlie sitting down with Grandpa just slapping mosquito's.


Other: this chapter was kinda good but it was kinda weird and I didn't really understand it but other then that it was good and it was kinda cool that his Grandpa went to a forest just to be with Grandma that died a long time ago.