Who Is Tomi In The House Of The Red Fish

Harrison, he is the author. His dad who is kinda a angry and violent man. His mom who is quiet and unassuming. He has a brother named bird, who is the course of the book comes out that he is a half brother. His wife is stunningly beautiful.

Tom is an immoral character. He is very unlikeable because of his uncivilized attitude. He is a very arrogant, dominating and boorish man who doesn’t cares about anyone focusing only on what he wants and looks down on poor, helpless people. Not only this, but he is also racist and a complete hypocrite.

One factor that helps change him is his sister. His sister Kara is actually successful and is a nurse. She helps him out all the time and very much wishes for his success. She lets him stay in a room of her apartment to help him out. Since she is such a big figure in his life and she is responsible and smart, she most likely has an effect on Thomas. The main way Tom changes though is how he goes to the other world when he sleeps. The other world is much less technologically advanced and smaller. There are several villages of pure good people and evil people. They are separated by dark forest with evil man-eating bats.  "Over one thousand in this village," Gabil piped up. "Fifteen hundred and twenty-two," Michal said. "There are seven villages in this tribe, and they all come to the same Gathering.” (Dekker 53) Basically in that land everything is good or bad, black and white. Tom appears in a village of good people who want to help him as much as possible. The village elders are wise bats that talk and try to train Tom to be better. Also since the village is all people who are near-perfect Tom is pressured to be wise and responsible and they help change him from making selfish

The character helps understand the theme in the story, that individuality must be treasured in our society, because it shows what the emotional and physical links to the society in the book, as well as the mental states and feelings influencing the text.

The first characteristic is that of individuality. An individuality is a person who is selfish, greedy and only cares about themselves to fulfill their wants. Tom is one of them because all he cares about is money, he does not care about his relationship with his wife. He even made a deal with the Devil to receive money from the Devil, Tom did not

The color red symbolizes a strong motif throughout this short story. “The Scarlet Ibis,” and scarlet is a shade of red. Doodle and the scarlet ibis are connected to each other. They both are damaged and die in a windstorm. As the ibis fell and hit the ground, he had blood coming from it’s mouth. When Doodle dies in the storm his brother treats him as if he were sick. Then Doodle symbolically overtakes the Scarlet Ibis.

At first glance, the Red Fish looks like a decoration piece that someone would hang in their home or lake house for decoration. However, with a more in depth look, viewers will see that this painting illustrates much more than it appears. In 1990, Leonard Koscianski used a piece of canvas, 64’’x46’’ to paint the image of a fish out of water. Koscianski used oil and dark shades of red, orange, blue, green, and white to create the Red Fish. The Red Fish was painted vertically with the fish as the main focus point. Behind some green blade grass, a large red- orange fish appears to be leaping out of the water. The size of the fish helps show that the fish is the center piece of the painting. Behind the fish there is a small patch of land, filled with blade grass with two white house’s sitting off in the distance. Directly behind the houses is a section of woods. From left to right, the tree tops seem to follow and up and down pattern. The dark blue sky begins at the tree line and ends at the top of the painting. Throughout the sky there are patches of clouds that are an off white color. The contrast between the colors used by Koscianski show a lot of detail, but did not take away from the huge red- orange fish. Along with the color scheme, Koscianski used lines to add detail to the fish and to provide depth to the painting. With proper use of colors and lines, Koscianski was able to create the Red Fish. In 1991, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

One event that causes a big change into Tomi is when he finds his family katana, a sword that contains all their ancestors history, under Keet`s bed. “Tiny needles prickled all over my scalp, because there on the floor shining in the sunlight was our family katana, the samurai sword that I had hidden in the jungle. Keet had found it! I stood, quickly wrapping it back up, my jaw tight with rage I’d never felt before, ever. Even papa would feel the same way” (109) This was the main event that caused Tomi to change his ways. After he say the katana on the ground he was done with Keet and him trying to stop him. He became more determined to bring the ship back up and would do anything now, like punching Keet in the face which his father would not approve of violence. This event showed a different, outstanding trait of Tomi, that he could do something that seemed impossible if he had enough determination and strength and that he wouldn’t give

Reading Chapter 16-22 made me look at Tomi differently. The war forced Tomi to become a man at an early age. The responsibility of the father and grandpa was forced upon him after both of them were taken away to prison camps. Tomi had to maintain the chickens and the family katana. Responsibility at a young age is nothing new to me as well; I am the second to the youngest child in the family. By the time I got to fourth grade all my older siblings left to America to pursue their education, leaving me to watch my younger brother and do all the chores at the house because the youngest was not at age to assist me.

Because he has recently gotten out of prison, Tom has no idea what is hapening. Tom's four-year absence from his family has placed a barrier between him and his family. Throughout the entire novel, one can see Tom as an outsider to his family.

Keet Wilson used to be Tomi’s friend, but after the Pearl Harbor bombing, and some people were suspicious of Japanese Americans, Keet became anti-Japanese and decided to bully Tomi whenever he could. Despite these challenges, Tomi has some good loyal friends.

Even though Tom is now aware of his origin it does not ultimately change all of his behavior and attitude or as it is described in the book “In several ways his opinions were totally changed,…, but the main structure of his character was not changed and could not be changed”. This condition only lasted for a certain period of time until he “dropped gradually back into his old frivolous and easy-going ways…” p.57 A similar thing happens to Chambers by the end of the story after Tom has gotten convicted to murder and Pudd’nhead Wilson has found out about the real identities of Tom and Chambers. Being a free man, the original Tom does not know how to deal with this situation because “his manners were the manners of a slave”. He did not learn how to write or to read, nor did he spend much time somewhere else but in the kitchen.

Tomi’s Life In the “House of the Red Fish” by Graham Salisbury, there were three main characters, Tomi, Billy, and Keet. The book talks about the life of an average Japanese-American during World War 2 and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The story takes place on the island of Hawaii on Oahu in 1943.

First of all, these two characters have two very different personalities. Tom is a very bold

Tom Joad from the beginning of the novel can be seen as a very introverted character who seems to only be worried about his family and himself. In the second chapter we see Tom for the first time