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"Sadako Sasaki is an eleven-year-old girl who loves to run. She trains at running track in her spare time and is preparing for the school meet. One day, however, she feels slightly dizzy when she's running. She's heard stories about children being afflicted with a disease caused by the radiation from the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, but she refuses to believe that this is her problem, and she keeps her feelings quiet. Her illness proves unavoidable, though, when Sadako collapses one day while running.
She is diagnosed with leukemia. One day, she hears a legend from a friend that gives her hope of recovery. The legend says that if a person folds one thousand paper cranes out of paper, he or she may be healed. Though each day Sadako becomes weaker, she decides to fold one thousand origami cranes. Her brother helps her by hanging the cranes from the ceiling. Sadly, Sadako is unable to finish the project. She passes away having made only 648 cranes. Her friends from school, however, hear her story, and they fold the remaining cranes so that she is buried with one thousand paper cranes.
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J.C. Pierce, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- depressed
Time/era of story
- 1930's-1950's
Internal struggle/realization?
Yes
Struggle over
- dying
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Age 7-10
War/Revolt/Disaster on civilians
Yes
Conflict:
- War, WW II
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a kid
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Physique
- very athletic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an organization
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 1 ()
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
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