Part 1 of Essay
Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson, is a truthful tale about a post World War II trial in which a Japanese-American fisherman, the first American citizen in his lineage, is accused of killing a well known American fisherman. The accused is Kabuo Miyomoto; dead is Carl Heine Jr. The book takes place in the small to ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... war to find the land sold. Their once close-knit friendship is shattered by their families' disagreement. They both become fishermen. Along with the Kabuo/Carl tension and subsequent trial is another relationship filled with stress: that of Kabuo's wife Hatsue and her high school sweetheart, now local reporter Ishmael Chambers. He cannot get over the loss of their relationship that ended when Hatsue was sent to a relocation camp. All of these conflicts are interwoven with the trial that rocks a small town. ....