Who is Makot? Do you feel sorry for him? What are your thoughts about him and the way he copes with his parents?
Makot was a Japanese boy that grew up with his wealth Mother and Father in the Filipino camps Pepelau, Hawaii. Makot was older than the other three boys that he hung around. He didn’t hang around boys his own age because they teased him. Makot’s family wasn’t well liked by the other Japanese’s families and this made it hard on Makot. Makot was alone most of the time and he learned to do things for himself. He cooked and fed his friends. He even bought them treats and took them to the movies. He tried to pay them for their attention because his only family wasn’t around. You see most of the other families couldn’t afford to do this. The other families didn’t have much but they did have each other.
Makot hung around the younger boys because he was respected more and I suspect because they were not persuade easily by society and what others may think. Unfortunately for Makot his best friend’s family was. Kiyoshi mother and father worried that if he hung around Makot that they would look like beggars. Makot had it pretty hard the one thing that he had going for him was the same thing that made him an outcast and that was money. Slow but surely Kiyoshi family had him stay away from Makot.
Hi Michelle,
ReplyDeleteI felt really sorry for Makot because he had to use his money to get friends, and because there was nothing he could do about the reputation of his parents. What a terrible thing for a child to have to grow up with. You could tell at the end of Part 1, when Kiyoshi told Makot he wasn't allowed to play with him anymore, that he was heartbroken, and that this had happened to him many times before. I'm hoping at the end of the book something good gets to happen to Makot. I always root for the underdog.
Thanks.