Sign of the Chrysanthemum

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Summary: The Sign of the Chrysanthemum
Review: Although splendidly researched as always with any of Katherine Paterson's work, I found this story sluggish at times. The characters were not very sympathetic, so it was hard to relate to their struggles.

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Summary: A heart-warming, captivating read.
Review: I really enjoyed this book and read it in about two hours (it is a short book). I am a Chinese lady teaching 12th grade English and I am sure all my students will enjoy this book, and also any grades from 9th onwards, because of its universal themes of search for identity, how it encapsulates the adventurous spirit of Feudal Japan, and its simple language which manages to be so evocative at the same time. For all those who didn't enjoy reading or teaching the book, may I suggest that you let your students watch some extremely popular Japanese Animation series about Feudal Japan like Rurouni Kenshin and Inuyasha before reading this book. Katherine Paterson's book reads exactly like a a great Anime series and I could picture the whole thing in my mind, background music and scenery included, and it was beautiful. So beautiful. Anyone with even a vague knowledge of feudal era Anime, or Japanese Culture and History of the Heian period will realise how accurately Paterson has portrayed the Japanese ideals of 'honour' and 'family'. She also deliberately tones down her writing style to match the simple sentence structures and restrained style of many East Asian writers, and this would be useful to know when comparing this book stylistically with her other works.

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Summary: Read It!
Review: If you are up for a great adventure this is the book for you. This story is about a young boy named Muna who was sent out by his mother to find his long lost father. Muna encounters many heart thrilling challenges durring his quest to find his father. I reccomend this book to everyone espeacially to those 7th graders who are studying "Feudal Japan"

I give this book a two thumbs up!!!

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Summary: The Sign of the Chrysanthemum
Review: The Sign of the Chrysanthemum is a book about a boy named Muna. Muna is a name that people would laugh about; some might say, "What kind of name is that?" People teased Muna because of his name. Muna doesn't want to be tease anymore and wants to be a man, so he would try to find his father, who is a warrior. Muna used to lived only with his mother and him, without a father with them. Then Muna's mother died and decides to find his father, so people won't tease him. But before Muna's mother died, she said some descriptions about his father. His father is a warrior and has a chrysanthemum tattoo. But that is the only things that Muna knows about his father. So the journey begins with some adventures.

I think that this book is okay, but it isn't really that good. I wanted to give the rate to be 3 and a half, but it doesn't have it. But in the other hand, it was a little bit good. Muna had some dreams about his father. This book was kind of boring, but there are adventures that are exciting. This book has some pictures in it and is kind of short. I enjoy reading part of the story, it is a good book.

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Summary: The Sign of the Chrysanthemum
Review: The Sign of the Chrysanthemum is a book about a boy named Muna. Muna is a name that people would laugh about; some might say, "What kind of name is that?" People teased Muna because of his name. Muna doesn't want to be tease anymore and wants to be a man, so he would try to find his father, who is a warrior. Muna used to lived only with his mother and him, without a father with them. Then Muna's mother died and decides to find his father, so people won't tease him. But before Muna's mother died, she said some descriptions about his father. His father is a warrior and has a chrysanthemum tattoo. But that is the only things that Muna knows about his father. So the journey begins with some adventures.

I think that this book is okay, but it isn't really that good. I wanted to give the rate to be 3 and a half, but it doesn't have it. But in the other hand, it was a little bit good. Muna had some dreams about his father. This book was kind of boring, but there are adventures that are exciting. This book has some pictures in it and is kind of short. I enjoy reading part of the story, it is a good book.

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Summary: The Sign of the Chrysanthemun Review
Review: This book was fairly good. Muna is a boy whos mother just past away. Because Muna's mother past away, he decides to search for his father whom Muna knows a little of. Muna learned from his mother that his father was a samurai and had a chrysanthemun tattoo on his shoulder. After his mother's burial, Muna leaves on his adventure. I think this book was fairly good because it had a great storyline. The end was the most terrific part because no one would have saw it coming.

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Summary: This is a great book. I recommend it to every one.
Review: This is a great book. I recommend this to teacher to assign to their students. The reason why is for teachers who are teaching their students about feudal Japan. It is action packed book. I recommend it to students and children who enjoy knight-like sumarai. I really enjoy this book. I have this book at least three times. I also recommend this to people who want to learn about the life of feudal Japan. This book is about a boy named Muna, a boy looking for his father. Dreaming about how his father looks like. He lives on the information that his father is a samarai warrior. He looks for a sign of the chrysanthemum. He sneaks on a ship.

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Summary: THE SIGH OF THE CHRYSATHEMUM
Review: To me, this is one of those books you would just only like to read once. I'm a scince-fictional kind of person, so i didn't really like this book. It was ok, because it had warriors and swords.The book was about a young boy searching for his samuri father, and looking for the sign of the chrysathemum on the man. I would recomend this book to anyone who just loves to read a book for fun.

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Summary: Mediocre, at best
Review: _Sign of the Chrysanthemum_ is a halfhearted stab at _Johnny Tremain_, set in feudal Japan. Again, young lad searches for his identity and his father. Again, young lad is swept up in political events beyond his understanding. Unfortunately, the writing is nowhere near as vivid, nor are the characters nearly as sympathetic in _Sign_.

There's got to be a better look into feudal Japan for young readers than this.