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A 4 page paper which discusses the
development of the character Ishmael in David Guterson’s “Snow Falling on Cedars.” No
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acceptance. It is a murder mystery as well. As such it is clearly a novel that would present the reader with a great deal of intriguing developments and one of
the most powerful developments in the story is that which applies to the main character Ishmael. He is no only a reporter who is covering the story, but also a
man who has never forgotten the love he felt for the wife of the accused, a Japanese woman. The following paper examines the development of Ishmaels character through Gutersons novel.
Ishmael In the beginning of this novel we see Ishmael as something of a lonely man, yet an intelligent man whose job is to report the news. As
such he has been put on the story of the murder trial of Kabuo Miyamoto. When we see Ishmael we are essentially introduced to a man who has been hardened,
a man who thinks perhaps that he is better than the people of this town, his hometown. We also note that he has only one arm, and thus we see
that he is a victim of WWII. In t his we begin to get a sense of a man who has lost a great deal in his life and a
man who may have once possessed dreams, but today is an angry and bitter individual. "He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened face, a tall man with the
eyes of a veteran" (Guterson 7). At about this point we are introduced to the fact that Ishmael and the accuseds wife have some sort of relationship. This establishes
a reality in which we see Ishmael as an individual who perhaps does not honorably care for the accused, thus remaining unbiased in his observations, but a man still obsessed
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