Write a letter to the Newport-mesa school board in support of or against its decision to ban Snow Falling on Cedars from its high school reading list

To,

Newport Mesa School Board

To whomever it may concern,

This is to bring into your apprehension, that Snow falling on Cedars should be refrained from the ban. It has a wide approach to what could be of very help to the students. The story tells a strong narrative in intricate detail. It has excellent progression, but moves a little too slowly at times. Unlike some dramas that spoil history and influence viewers to sympathize with sinners, Snow Falling on Cedars depicts sinful people who recognize truth and work to redeem injustice. It contains foul language and a few sexual encounters, but points to noble Christian standards that eventually are victorious. In Snow Falling on Cedars, the main character Ishmael, a young reporter in the late 1940's lives in the Washington State shore. A Japanese-American named Kazuo is charged with murdering a white fisherman. The story then flashes back, fitting together different pieces of the puzzling death. The primary stories are a previous forbidden love affair between Ishmael and Hatsue, now Kazuo's wife, and the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Ishmael's love for Hatsue causes him to explore the crime scene anew to help extricate her husband, a man Ishmael does not like but knows he must forgive. Strong redemptive worldview of forgiveness, justice, revealing the truth, and love, with an overt Christian element of swearing on the Bible in court, a romantic element of young love bordering on near obsession includes in it.

In 1950, on the island of San Pedro, North Pacific, where both communities live in peaceful coexistence apparently: Japanese immigrants and Americans. The Japanese are not entitled to the same benefits and rivalries remain linked to the traditions of another age. A fisherman, Carl Haine, died mysteriously one night. Everyone charged Kazuo Miyamoto, his lifelong friend. Ishmael Chambers is investigating difficult Kazuo's wife was his first love. A love made impossible by the war and the mass deportation of Japanese considered as potential spies. The plot of the story sets the action in a U.S. fishing village, much of whose population is made ??up of Japanese, who live with the natives, more or less likely. But they are in 1950 and the echoes of Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor in Naval Base (preamble ...