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    Differences and similarities between Keet and Tomi In the book House of the Red Fish there are two characters that keep on popping up. Tomi and Keet. Tomi is the protagonist while Keet is the antagonist. They can’t seem to agree on anything. The characters are very different but has some similarities. People can often find similarities if they look for them. Admittedly, the characters are from different cultures. The main character, Tomi is japanese while Keet, the antagonist is a haole (American)

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    People face experiences that impact their life. Matt Alacran in The House of the Scorpion and Mare Barrow in Red Queen go through life impacting experiences. Both Matt and Mare face life impacting experiences when they have limited control of society and want to escape their given situation, similarities in power corruptions which leaves them in a negative place in society and in harm, and differences through human vs trust by treatment of people and relationships. Both Matt and Mare have similarities

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    What is a proper explanation for loyalty? Loyalty is the circumstance of adherence and commitment to a person or institution. Pleasantly, this word can be shown from interaction to even inside scenes of a book. The narrative, House of the Red Fish, has plentiful situations in it’s sequence that portray as such. In the novel, loyalty exemplar is represented in the moments in where Tomi is determined to lift up his father’s boat, Tomi’s friends generosity in assisting him, and lastly, how neighbors

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    Rose Red vs. Hill House The story “The Haunting of Hill House” written by Shirley Jackson and “Rose Red” by Steaven King have many similar things that happen. In both the movie and book it talks about a group of people that are psychic that visit a haunted house that has had so many things happen inside. They believe the house is alive and they go inside to see it for themselves. Both houses had a family Crains and the Rimbauers that have died in the house or on the way to the house. In Hill

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    Tradition is a time tested, known way of doing certain things, and even though modern technology promises a lot it doesn’t always deliver. This idea is present in the 6th world by Future States tv. In the 6th world, Redhouse, along with Dr. Smith are chosen to go to space, and start the first colony on mars. In order to produce food and oxygen, a hydroponic crop system was invented that leaves the corn with no husks or tassels. In space, the corn crop starts to fail, leaving Redhouse and Smith in

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    Have you ever heard of the book House of the Red Fish? It’s about a life of a boy after the Pearl Harbor bombing. The boy, Tomi, has a hard life, and what makes it harder for him is this other boy, named Keet. They might have some similarities in a way, but at the same time, they have personalities or characteristics in common. First of all, Tomi is different than Keet in certain ways. Tomi is Japanese for his ethnicity. When the FBI went to his house to get all the Japanese related things, him

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    In the book “House Of The Red Fish”, Tomi would like to bring up his papa’s boat, which was sunk. Is Tomi’s ambition to far-fetched? In the book, Tomi will go through series of situations. Tomi has his family and friends, but has challenging problems. Will his problems be to difficult to face? Problems will not hold Tomi back, some reasons are, Tomi has friends that give him a helping hand, Tomi is courageous and a fighter, and Tomi won’t let his problems bring him down. First, Tomi gets assistance

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    What makes Tomi Nakaji, Tomi Nakaji? Readers of the book “House of the Red Fish” ask the same question throughout the book. This book is written by Graham Salisbury who wrote about a ninth grader named Tomi Nakaji who is living a year after the attack from Japan on Pearl Harbor. In many ways, this experience has changed his life in a number of ways. Without his father who had been arrested because he was a Japanese fisherman who had been out during the attack, he is left to attempt to raise his father’s

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    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. At the time when the three are in high school, Japan drops a bomb on Hawaii, which leads racism to spread because of distrust and hatred. Even though these boys grew up together, they have different

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    When using the Double Bubble Map method to compare two subjects, there are three sides. The similarities, and the different things about the subjects. In this case, the subjects were Tomi and Keet, the main characters of House of The Red Fish. One of the many differences between Tomi and Keet is that Tomi is determined to get his father's fishing sampan to the surface, but Keet is adamant about keeping it at the bottom of the canal where it lays. The Double Bubble Map is convenient because it keeps

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