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    Do you know someone who is very loyal? Do they show devotion, commitment, faithfulness, which means the same as “Loyalty”? The book entitled “House of the Red Fish,” presents many examples of  loyalty and how it helps others. Here are three main examples from the book. First example of loyalty in the “House Of The Red Fish” is Rico going into the sewer water with an injured butt, so he can help his friend find and recover a sunken boat.That's loyalty because Rico is committed to helping his friend

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    examples about how loyalty is used many different situations in the book called “House of the Red Fish”. The definition of loyalty is “The quality of being loyal to someone or something”.The examples of royalty would be trying to hold a promise even though it is tough, treating people that you don’t like with respect, and helping others because you care for them. One example of loyalty from the book (House of the Red Fish) is that Nakaji family had lived on the Wilson’s property and weren’t treated

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    The word loyalty can be defined in so many different ways. I believe everyone thinks of loyalty in their own way. In the book, House of the Red Fish, loyalty is a big thing, and hard to find in their prospective. Loyalty is a strong feeling or support and allegiance from a loved one or friend. Tomi-kun experienced a lot of hard events in his life, from losing his family members, to him getting into a lot of trouble with people that accept his culture. So for him it is very hard for him to accept

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    Can characters in storytelling be both commonized and opposite? In occasional cases, characters can be the utmost of alike. Although, they still can be contrasting when compared to each other. The narrative, House of the Red Fish, has includance of two key characters in the events occurrence that have an ideal comparinship throughout the novel. These characters being the family oriented main character Tomi and secondly, the abusive old ally of him Keet. Both personas in the novel have highly different

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    To start off, in the book, “House Of The Red Fish,” throughout the book, are more and more interesting elements about the characters shown as people read the book. Why? The book gives us details about the Main protagonist and antagonist, Tomi and Keet. They share conflict with each other, and are very similar, but divergent at the same time. Tomi has many characteristics that are different from Keet, he is an American-Japanese citizen, etc, while Keet is Haole/ white, etc. Although both boys are

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    Tomi was only 13 years old, and he became the man of his house. This was due to the fact his father and grandfather had been arrested and taken away during World War 2. Tomi’s has many personality. Some include loyal, determined, thinker, and a determined to name a few. First, Tomi was a very loyal person to his family. On page 16 of “House of the Red Fish” he says “I would fight to my last breath to guard it.” This provides just a thought of how far Tomi would go for his family and their prized

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    Forever Friends is a statement commonly taken for granted. In House of the Red Fish, character show steadfast loyalty to one another. Through the toils of war, Tomi finds lifelong friendship. Some friends that showed loyalty was Billy, Rico, and Tomi’s mom. They were by his side during bad times and good times. After the bombing, Tomi was suffering from the after time, but he had friends on his side to help him. First, Billy is Tomi’s best friend, which has been by his side during school and

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    In the book, House of the Red Fish, the protagonist, Tomi, and the antagonist Keet Wilson compete. During World War 2, on the islands of Hawai’i, Tomi and friends are trying to raise a sunken boat while Keet Wilson and his army of “BMTC Punks” are trying to stop him. Tomi and Keet both have their differences and their similarities. They both are clever and ambitious. But Tomi and Keet also have a few differences. Tomi and Keet both demonstrate their smarts during their quarrels. Often throughout

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    In the story, “House of the Red Fish” Tomi’s situations and what he has to go through everyday teaches many about Tomi’s loyalty to others, during the whole entire book. In the book he goes through tough times but still shows care and helps others without thinking about himself first. There is a substantial amount of evidence to support my reasonings from the book which will be used to explain why Tomi is so loyal. One word that will help explain Tomi’s loyalty is the word Kind which Tomi show

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    The book “The House of the Red Fish” is about this boy named Tomi. Tomi is a Japanese local to Hawaii. He has been through many crazy experiences but is always brave. I think that Tomi has a very good personality. He never gives up, is very responsible, and is always happy. The first reason why I think Tomi has a good personality is that he never gives up. As I mentioned earlier Tomi has gone through many crazy experiences. For example, in the book, it says, “And then the navy raced a boat out and

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