Chapter 1
Korea, 1945.
What is setting?
The news Sookan's mother learns about the Japanese and the war.
What is losing the war?
What is their role in the Korean independence movement?
People, animals, or objects that carry out the action in the story.
What are characters?
The beginning of a story that introduces setting, characters, and sets up the story.
What is exposition?
The main character and narrator of the story.
Who is Sookan?
The party Sookan's family is secretly planning.
What is Haiwon's birthday party?
Time, place, mood/tone of a story.
What is setting?
The part of the plot where the conflict is reveal and actions starts to pick up.
What is rising action?
Other main characters of the story.
Who are Grandma, Mother, Aunt Tiger, Sookan's younger brothers?
The punishment for the family having a birthday party.
What is destroying the pine tree?
Three days after the pine tree is chopped down.
What is Grandfather's death?
What is conflict?
The most intense part of plot. Where the conflict is at its peak.
What is climax?
Grandfather teaches Sookan and Inchun something prohibited by the Japanese.
What is Korean and Chinese?
Grandfather's reaction to the pine tree being destroyed.
What is upset and angry?
What Sookan remembers the most about her Grandfather.
What are Grandfather's teachings?
The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
What is falling action?
The cruel soldier who inspects the sock factory and makes sure everyone is following the rules.
Who is Captain Narita?
What Sookan and Inchun manage to save from the pine tree.
What are branches?
Harmony and light will eventually prevail.
What the major Buddhist idea Grandfather taught her?
The lesson the protagonist and the reader learn from the story.
What is theme?
The end of the plot. Where the theme is revealed.