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Summary of The Big Wave. The storyline starts with the protagonist, a young boy, Kino, living on his ranch on the mountainside in Japan. The mountain is located high above the coastal area, while a village of fishermen rests on the seashore that he could have a glimpse of from above the mountain top.
Plot Summary. A young boy named Kino lives on his family’s farm on a mountainside overlooking the ocean and a nearby fishing village. Kino works with his father on the farm and sometimes goes to the village to play with his friend Jiya. Jiya lives with his family in a house on the beach. No house on the beach has windows facing the ocean.
Theme: struggle for life and survival. Place: Japanese shore. Time: beginning of the 20 th century. Book Summary. Japan is a country of many beautiful mountains and shores. It is surrounded by the mysterious, beautiful and blue ocean. On the mountain ridge lived the farmers. Kino was a boy living in one of the farms.
Plot. Kino lives with his family on a farm on the side of a mountain in Japan while his friend, Jiya, lives in the fishing village below. Though everyone in the area has heard of the big wave no one suspects that when the next one comes, it will wipe out Jiya's entire family and fishing village below the mountain.
7 maj 2019 · The Big Wave is a novella written by the late American Pulitzer Prize winning author, Pearl S. Buck about a young Japanese boy who survives a tsunami and learns much about life. The story is set in a small fishing village in Japan, located on a beach by the ocean.
21 lis 2023 · The Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck is a children's novella set in a Japanese fishing community. The story focuses on two boys from the village. When tragedy strikes, the...
19 mar 2012 · Summary: Clem gets a call that is every mother’s worst nightmare. Her nineteen-year-old daughter Erin is unconscious in the hospital after a hiking trip with her friends on the remote Orkney Islands that met a horrifying end, leaving her boyfriend dead and her best friend missing.
