So Far from the Bamboo Grove

by Yoko Kawashima Watkins

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In So Far from the Bamboo Grove, what does Yoko get her mother for New Year's Eve?

What are challenges and dangers that Hideyo faces in So Far Form the Bamboo Grove?

Could someone please give me a quick summary of chapter 2 in So Far From The Bamboo Grove?

What sort of relationship do Ko and Yoko have in So Far from the Bamboo Grove? Yoko refers to Ko as "Honorable Sister." Sometimes they exchange words that are not very honorable. What sort of relationship do they have?

Why does Yoko's family live in Korea? How does being Japanese affect them as the war develops?

What happens in Chapter 8 of So Far From the Bamboo Grove?

In the book "So Far From The Bamboo Grove" by Yoko Kawashima Watkins, what does mother not go anywhere without, and what does it hold?

Who is Corporal Matsumura and why did he warn the family to leave?

What values does Mrs. Kawashima have and how do Yoko and Ko show that they generally share those values? In other words, what does Mrs. Kawashima believe and how do her girls show that they pretty much believe those things too?

What terrible comment does Ko make toward her sister Yoko?

Why did the school principal open a letter to addressed to Yoko in So Far From The Bamboo Grove?

How would you describe the honorable sister, Ko, in the book, "So Far From the Bamboo Grove"?

What happens when Yoko must cross the iron railroad bridge in So Far from the Bamboo Grove?

Why does Mrs. Kawashima stop in Kyoto in So Far from the Bamboo Grove?

What was Ko doing in the park in So Far From the Bamboo Grove?

Who marches past the family as they hide in the irises in So Far from the Bamboo Grove? 

When and where does this story start? where did they live and what year?

In "So Far From the Bamboo Grove", how do they survive the train ride from Nanam, and how does their brother survive the Koreans?

Where does Hideyo want to go in So Far From the Bamboo Grove?

What news does Hideyo hear from the old man on the train tracks?

What are some major events from Chapters 1-3 in So Far From the Bamboo Grove?

What happens to Yoko's high expectations in "So Far From the Bamboo Grove"?

On what date did Yoko, her mother, and sister flee their home in the book "So Far From the Bamboo Grove"?

This book should not be taught nor read I can't believe what publishers will do to sell books.  This book is moral sewage and innocent children are being poisoned by reading this book. Please don't be fooled by the well-written narrative.  This book is akin to an escape narrative of an SS officer's family from Birkenow Auschwitz concentration camp where their father worked as a Nazi officer while cruel freed Jews are rabidly intent on exacting revenge on the Nazi officers and their innocent Nazi families.  Should a sympathetic story of a KKK clan family members escaping from angry African American be taught to children?  Should we teach sympathetic perspectives of Pol Pot's family???  Please consider why this would be wrong! Teaching such a narrative without proper understanding of context is distortion of historical reality and inexcusable moral irresponsibility. The fact that this book is being taught to children across the US is a travesty born out of ignorance of East Asian history.

Is this book a credible source that can be used as a textbook? this book is about her life and she described how horrible the Koreans were and according to her, there were many Korean men that raped YOUNG Japanese women when the main problem we need to focus on is about those 'comfort women' that the Japanese government created/abused in order to satisfy the sexual needs of the Japanese soldiers. What is the truth?

How do the Kawashimas act toward the patients on the train in So Far from the Bamboo Grove?

In "So Far from the Bamboo Grove", why was the family living in Korea?