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Katie notices that her parents work all the time and never take time to relax and have fun. Write a brief article that might appear in a book called Women in Other Cultures. Research the role of women in Japan today. Takeshima feels that her girls must return to Japan to learn about their femininity. How does she help her parents deal with their grief? Discuss how the trip to California helps Katie come to terms with Lynn’s death.How does this dream foreshadow her death? Discuss the symbolism of the brown moth in Lynn’s bedroom on the night she dies. Lynn wakes up crying one night and says that in her dream she is swimming in the ocean.How does she justify this crime to herself? Discuss why Katie’s crime makes her mother feel that the family is falling apart. How does Katie commit each of these crimes in the course of the novel? Discuss the scene where Katie steals pink nail polish for Lynn. Hitting, stealing, and lying are the three worst crimes to Mr.

Contrast Katie and Silly’s friendship with Lynn and Amber’s. What does Katie mean when she says “Amber broke ranks and became Lynn’s first best friend?” Why does Amber drop Lynn as a friend? Discuss why Katie is so hurt that Amber doesn’t come to Lynn’s funeral.

Describe the friendship that develops between Lynn and Amber.

Takeshima leave such important discussions up to Lynn? At what point do Lynn and Katie switch roles? Why does Katie feel that her parents like Lynn best? It is Lynn who tells Katie that they are moving to Georgia, and it is Lynn who tells her that their mother is pregnant.

Discuss Katie and Lynn’s relationship.

What are the elements of hope in the novel?.

Takeshima quietly give in to the motel clerk and take the room in the back? How does Lynn help Katie understand the prejudices that she will experience at school? The first time that Katie experiences prejudice is at the motel in Tennessee when her family is moving to Georgia.

Prejudice is an underlying theme in the novel.

Luminous in its persistence of love and hope, Kira-Kira is Cynthia Kadohata's stunning debut in middle-grade fiction. But when Lynn becomes desperately ill, and the whole family begins to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering - kira-kira - in the future.

And it's Lynn who, with her special way of viewing the world, teaches Katie to look beyond tomorrow. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it's Lynn who explains to her why people stop them on the street to stare. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. Kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra): glittering shining ⚠️ This book will unfortunately be removed from the service on the 14th of May.