The Big
Wave
Before the wave hit Deer Island.
“ We need both fishers and
farmers.”The people of Deer
Island lived happily
before the big wave
hit. They were both
fisher and farmers.
Kino’s Family Before the Wave
Before the wave hit, Kino was living happily as a farmer’s boy. He lived with him sister, Setsu, and his mother and father. Pearl S. Buck says that the farming families in Japan are very close and think that they should cherish family.
Jiya’s Family Before the Wave
Jiya’s family was very happy as fishers living on the beach with his windows facing away from the ocean. They do this because they fear the ocean. Pearl Buck shows that they fear the sea by saying they face away from the ocean because the Japanese people understand the dangers and power of the sea.
Pearls S. Buck
shows that
Japanese have to
live with fierce
storms and
hardships by the
Kino’s father
saying, “We must
learn to live with
danger.”
“We must divide ourselves,” Jiya’s father said. “”If
the ocean yields to the fires you must live after us.”
Pearl Buck wrote this
because she wanted to
show that in the
Japanese culture,
Japanese people put the
children ahead of
themselves. She shows
this by saying all the
children were to go to the
old Gentlemen’s knoll and
leave they families to die.
They did this because
they wanted the children
to grow up and have lives.
After the Big Wave
The big wave destroyed the entire town and almost all of the people living there including Jiya’s family. Kino’s family was very lucky, they survived through this terrible storm.
After the
wave
killed
Jiya’s
family he
stayed
with Kino,
but he
only
wanted to
sleep.
Still Kino
“Jiya is not ready to live, we must wait.”-Kino’s Father
“We should not
fear the sea.”-
Kino’s father
Pearl S. Buck shows us that
the people of Japan should
not fear the sea because it is
apart of them. She shows us
this by writing, “ We should
not fear the sea.” Jiya
learned this at the end of the
story and decided to marry
Setsu, live a new life, and
have an open window to the
sea to show he is does not
fear it.
The BookI think that Pearl S. Buck wrote The Big
Wave because she thinks that the truth
should be told about how Japanese people
live and lived with long ago. Problems with
family and nature effect their lives in
different ways everyday.