Saturday, June 20, 2009

"Under the Blood Red Sun"

I was reading some chapters within the book "Under the Blood Red Sun" where Tomi and his friend Billy went with Tomi's father to go fishing. Although, their fishing wasn't casual like a fishing trip. Their fishing was all for work. Tomi's father and his co-worker, Sanji, were fishermen on their small boat. Nearly everyday they would rack in dozens of fish and then sell them for profit.

During these chapters, Tomi basically described the trip with the smells, the sounds, and the pain as they strained to pull in the large yellowfins. In the end, his friend Billy finally pulled in a hundred-fifty pound yellowfin.

Although, the end of the chapters foreshadowed something saying, "that was before the spying". My inference is that all of the people in Hawaii are starting to doubt the Japanese origin people due to the recent Pearl harbor. Although, it's not up to me to determine what the book is going to bring, but it's the writer. I only thought of that idea because the book was based off the events that happened after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. People started to become paranoid and patriotic to an extreme point of murder. All of this is history.

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