Shard

Everyone faces challenges in different ways and they overcome them in different ways. A Single Shard was about an orphan boy named Tree-ear facing difficulties trying to learn how to be a master potter. Tree-ear learned that if he didn’t attempt to show Emissary Kim the single shard which broke from the trip to Songdo, he would have never gotten Min the commission and Tree-ear would have never learned to be a master potter. His best friend, Crane-man helped him with meaningful words that make Tree-ear

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park is a historical fiction book set in Korea around the twelfth century. The story follows an orphan boy by the name of Tree-ear as he becomes obsessed with pottery and earns an apprenticeship with a local potter by the name of Min. One day word arrives that a royal will be coming to the village to evaluate the potters and choose one to commision. The royal emissary enjoys Min’s pottery and asks if Min would make and bring more samples to the city of Songdo, but Min

Life in the I.C.U. Tracey Shard has spent over half of her life in the hospital, in fact she has spent 32 out of her 51 years of life in the hospital, but she is not a patient. Tracey works in the Intensive Care Unit (I.C.U.) as a nurse and additionally, she works in data collection during the week, collecting information about every patient who stays in the I.C.U. Tracey describes herself as “caring, passionate, energetic, slightly opinionated and vibrant.” Tracey first decided to be a nurse when

In A Single Shard, there are many characters with changes of emotion and heart through the story. For example, Tree-ear is a good example, because of his thoughts about the situation he is in throughout the story. Since he is a main character, there is a focus on him, and how he changes throughout the course of the story. In A Single Shard, Tree-ear was a boy or adolescent that is growing yet starving and loves to watch a potter work. However, he does not realize the work it takes for this potter

In A Single Shard, Tree-ear is one of the character that is being followed by the readers. He had faults here and there; he does also have his good traits. In A Single Shard Tree-ear has grown from the beginning to the end of the story. In the book, Tree-ear started only with Crane-man and no one else. Tree-ear got life lesson from Crane-man; located 70, paragraph 1-2, Crane-man said “Stealing and begging made a man no better than a do. Work gives a man dignity, stealing takes it away.” He

weakness of Min is that he is too much of a perfectionist. One One quote that shows Min is a perfectionist is "If ever you learn to make a pot it will not be for me... The potter's trade goes from father to son," on page 95 from the book "A Single Shard". This quote proves that Min will always follow the rules regardless of anything else. A perfectionist is one who always follows the rules and needs everything to be exact. The quote above shows that Min will not teach anyone but his own son to

There is a novel called A Single Shard, in A Single Shared, there is a master potter named Min that had completely changed throughout the book. At the beginning of the book, Min was very strict and was a perfectionist towards pottery. Mins attitude being very uptight and stern, it did not seem that he had a strong relationship or connection with anyone due to him being so strict. Surprisingly, Min’s attitude changes at the end of the novel. At the end of the novel, Min becomes more emotional and

Shard Academy: the last place I expected to be. The only reason I enrolled there was to rebel against my parents who ruthlessly tried to make me enroll in Fragment or Ridgeview. They conflicted with each other about my future, which was something I didn't like to worry about that much. But thanks to that, I never made friends and never had a life that a kid should have. But it's not that bad, not really. Just annoying. They always expected a lot from me but I just wanted to follow my own path. I

A good novel is constructed by themes, plots, setting, style, tone, and etc. Theme is the most important factor because readers can learn by themselves from the story. In the novel called A Single Shard, the author Linda Sue Park perfectly shows these factors, and this book shows the two other elements, family and adventure. The whole story is talking about the tale of Tree-ear, the orphan. Tree-ear is adopted by Crane-man who is a kindly old man with a crippled and useless leg, they live under

There are many characters in the story “A Single Shard” but they all have a different personality. They have all changed in many ways. For instance Tree-ear has changed physically and mentally. Tree-ear was really playful and wasn’t really mature. He couldn’t really understand more of what his friend Crane-man was saying when he said something inspiring. He also didn’t pay attention to what he was doing. When he broke Min’s vases and had to work to pay for how long it took Min to create the vase