Markee A Single Shard Linda Sue Park

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MarkeeA Single ShardLinda Sue Park
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• November 18, 2008

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About the Author

• Linda Sue Park was born in Urbana, Illinois on
  March 25, 1960, and grew up outside Chicago. The
  daughter of Korean immigrants, she has been
  writing poems and stories since she was four
  years old, and her favorite thing to do as a
  child was read.

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Characters

• Tree-ear-a Orphan ,Min-an old potter who Tree-ear
  works for,Crane-man-A man that let Tree-ear live
  with him under a bridge where he lives and dies
  at the end of the story,Aijama Mins wife who
  gave Tree-ear meal when he worked for Min.

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Setting

• A small village on the west coast of Korea,mid-to
  late 12th century.

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Summary

• Well, first they tell that there is a boy name
  Tree-ear that when his parents died he was
  supposed to go to a monk temple to live,but the
  monks had sickness in the temple so he live with
  Crane-man and when the Monks came to get him he
  would not go with them so he stayed there for the
  rest of his life.Then.Later on he started to
  watch this old potter named Min do Pottery ever
  afternoon then final Min caught Tree-ear looking
  at his work and said he was stealing from him but
  when Min said something to him he was startled
  that he dropped and broke one of his works of
  art.Min told him to leave but Tree-ear ask could
  work the debt for what he had broken.First Min
  had him to chop wood for the kiln .While Tree-ear
  was chopping wood he got the biggest blister and
  it busted open. When he got back home Crane-man
  help him clean it before it got
  infected.Crane-man offered to help with wood but
  Tree-ear would not let for he was afraid that he
  might hurt his good leg while chopping wood.Then
  the Royal Emissary from the palace in Songdo came
  looking for pottery worthy to go to the
  palace.then he gave Min a task to bring two works
  of art to the palace in a few days.So Min gave
  the to Tree-ear to take the vases to the
  palace,But before he went Aijama Mins wife told
  Tree-ear that they had a son but he died from
  fever.So she gave Tree-ear his jacket for the
  trip.Then he went on the journey and on the way
  while was make a fire a fox came to him and
  Crane-man told him that when you look in a fox it
  controlls your body and leads to its lair to be
  devoured.Then it disappeared later on he went on
  a path that Crane-man told him about and got
  robbed by two robbers and threw the vases off the
  cliff into the rocks below. When he almost gave
  up hope he found out that he did not hear the
  second vase crash he thought it probabaly didnt
  think it broke but when he went down to the rocks
  he found the first one shattered into a million
  pieces. The second one was broken but not as much
  as the first one was though so he found a large
  shard of the vase and took it to the emissary and
  he accepted it.To bad when he came home there was
  terrible news waiting for him.Min told him that
  Crane-man drowned in the river from under the
  bridge from where he lived and the only thing he
  had to remember him by was the little clay monkey
  that he gave to him before he went on the
  journey.Then Aijama said since he doesnt have
  anywhere to stay he could live with them then she
  asked could she change his name to Hyung-Pi he
  accepted his and started to live with them.THE
  END.

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Book Review

• Yes
• It taught me to never give up hope in what ever
  circumstances I may be in.
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• Probabaly 4

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