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Kira-Kira

Kira-Kira. Steven Kang (MS10331). Short Summary.

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Kira-Kira

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  1. Kira-Kira Steven Kang (MS10331)

  2. Short Summary • The story happens when Katie Takeshima, the main character, and her family moves from Iowa to Georgia for their business. Because Katie and her older sister Lynn lost their favorite things before moving, a stuffed animal named Bera-Bera for Katie and a sweater for Lynn, they had hysterics before and while the moving.

  3. Short Summary • Katie and Lynn cried and cried while they were moving in their uncle Katsuhisa’s truck. Katsuhisa couldn’t restrain himself because crying Katie and Lynn got Katsuhisa annoyed. So Katsuhisa taught Katie and Lynn how to spit like a master. Katsuhisa also sang for Katie and Lynn, singing Katie’s and Lynn’s name with the tunes of many famous music, which finally made Katie and Lynn stop from crying and made them happy.

  4. Plot Diagram

  5. Explaining Conflicts, Problems, and Challenges • External Conflict • Katie and Lynn vs. Their mother • Katie and Lynn cried and cried for their Bera-Bera and sweater, so her mother was upset and made them to go with uncle Katsuhisa. • Ex) line 68~70 • Katie and Lynn vs. Uncle Katsuhisa • Katie and Lynn cried again after they get into their uncle’s truck for moving after scolded by their mother. They cried so much, so their uncle refused to drive with them. • Ex) line 74~76

  6. Explaining Conflicts, Problems, and Challenges • External Conflict • Katie and Lynn vs. Their family’s move from Iowa to Georgia • Katie and Lynn didn’t know why they had to move, because they were happy in Iowa. • Ex) line 79~line 84 • Internal Conflict • Katie and Lynn vs. Themselves • When their uncle Katsuhisa told them that he’ll teach Katie and Lynn how to spit like a master, Katie and Lynn first hesitated for a moment. • Ex) line 97~line 99

  7. Finding 10 Literary Elements • 1. Metaphor • line 12 – My mother was a delicate, rare and beautiful flower. • 2. Sarcasm • line 71~ line 72 – “Oh, no,” said Uncle. “I wouldn’t want to deprive you of their delightful company.” • 3. Repetition • line 74 – So we climbed into the noisy truck with our noisy uncle.

  8. Finding 10 Literary Elements • 4. Personification • line 48~line 49 – Bera-Bera was my favorite stuffed animal… Bera-Bera talked too much, laughed too loudly… • 5. Exaggeration • line 13~line 14 – She was so delicate that if you bumped into her acccidentally, you could bruise her. • 6. Denotation • line 6 – ochazuke-green tea mixed with rice…

  9. Finding 10 Literary Elements • 7. Dialogue • every sentences which is set off with quotation marks are usually all dialogues. For instance, line 36~line 41 is a dialogue between Katie and Lynn. • 8. Simile • Line 96 – “I could teach you girls how to spit like a master,” he said. • 9. Genre • Fiction • 10. Title • Kira-Kira

  10. Thinking About Author’s Reason for Writing • The story mainly tells about Katie who is now on a young person’s path to greater maturity. Everyone has this period while life, and they say that these periods are the most beautiful part in their life. As many people think like this, the author could think like this, and wanted to remind her own period, which developed the maturity, by writing this story.

  11. Two Critical Questions for Discussion • If you lose your favorite thing as Katie lost Bera-Bera, how would you react? Why? • For stopping Katie and Lynn crying, uncle Katsuhisa taught Katie and Lynn how to spit like a master. Do you think Katsuhisa’s act to Katie and Lynn was morally right? Explain.

  12. Finding the Most Difficult Words • deprive – If you deprive someone of something that they want or need, you take it away from them, or you prevent them from having it. • embroidered – If something such as clothing or cloth is embroidered with a design, the design is stitched into it. • belch – If someone belches, they make a sudden noise in their throat because air has risen up from their stomach.

  13. Finding the Most Difficult Words • delicate – Something that is delicate is small and beautifully shaped. • hysterics – If someone is in hysterics or is having hysterics, they are in a state of uncontrolled excitement, anger, or panic.

  14.  Thank you  • For more information, please visit my website hksteven10331.wordpress.com or see my poster.

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