Snow Falling on Cedars | Literary Precedents
Guterson himself declares that his greatest influence was Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird (1954; see separate entry), that he followed "very much the same structure and addressed the same concerns" as she did in her novel. In his words, "two separate stories become one." That is, the story of Ishmael Chambers gradually merges with the history of the community itself.
Very early on, Ishmael Chambers himself refers to the classical works of literature that formed his sense of self, including Moby Dick (Herman Melville, 1851), The Adventures of Huckleberry...
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