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Sadako page
By Quinn Bailey |
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| Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes seems to me to be a biography about a young Japanese girl, living in Hiroshima, and her legacy. What happens in the book is Sadako has always been a runner ever since she could walk, possibly even before. She has been on a track team and one day she competes in the relay. That is where she has her first symptoms, but she hides them from everyone. So one day at school she is running on the playground and suddenly she falls. She had rarely fallen so the teachers come to help her. They rush her to the hospital, she knows it is the hospital used for “bomb disease” victims. She is scared because she knows most people who get leukemia don’t survive. Her parents tell her they will visit her every evening, and her siblings tell her they will visit her every day after school. One day after school Chizuko comes to visit Sadako, she they are best friends. She gives Sadako a stack of paper and tells her about what happens if you fold a thousand paper cranes. This means a lot to Sadako because she knows that Chizuko doesn’t believe in that sort of thing. When Chizuko leaves, Sadako starts folding paper cranes. The first one she folds is a big gold one, soon her table beside her bed is jammed with cranes. Later her brother comes by the hospital, he tells her because she has no room for cranes, he will hang them. She tells him that he will have to hang a thousand, he reluctantly agrees to do that. For many days Sadako lived like this, until one day when Sadako was outside. She saw a young boy roughly her age. Sadako decided to engage him in conversation. He says that he will probably die soon and so will she. That makes Sadako think, “Will I die”. Sadako thinks about that throughout the night because she never really thought about that before. A couple days later Sadako asks to see her new friend, the nurse tells her he died. That made her want to make more cranes. A few days later Sadako’s father comes to the hospital, he brings a kimono. Sadako asks her father why they bought a kimono when silk costs so much and she won’t be able to wear it if she dies. He tells her her mother sewed it. Soon she had made 643 cranes. She starts to feel better, and then she starts to feel worse. Soon after she dies. But her story lives on. | |||
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| These are some links I thought were interasting, if you want more go to google.com and look up Sadako and the thousand paper cranes.
Web quest http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/~edtech/webquest/sadako.htm |
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