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A Single Shard

The culture was Korean and Japanese. Which they tried to base it up about pottery

making and learning how to do pottery and make potts. The location was in Korea and they

didn’t have technology but the phones on the wall. They used things that looked like a book bag

but was made out of straw and carried the things in there like if you go to garden they will use

those and put the pumpkins and other stuff like that in the book bag looking thing. I think this is

appropriate to this time period because in the 1987’s some people should’ve known how to do

pottery and everything it talked about in the book it seemed like it was from the 1987’s too. I

think that the time period was actually in the 1987’s because
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This story is basically about

pottery and a boy that lost his parents and he is staying with a person that took care of him

since he was little then he started watching a man do pottery and he started to like and want to

learn and make and do pottery. The culture is korean and i don’t think that they had a lot of

technology they had a couple of things. I think this story is based on pottery because that

tree-ear wanted to learn about and make pottery and he was caring and cooks food to a man

that took care of him since he was little when his mom and dad passed away. When tree-ears

family passed away a monkey was trying to get him to his uncle but his uncle move so a man

named crane-man said he will take care of him. When he was working for Min he went to get

wood and he went to get clay so he can learn how to do pottery from Min so Min can teach him

because Tree-ear did something to Min wife. When trying to learn how to do pottery Min’s wife

always cooked for him but Tree-ear. He didn't get paid he was just there for lessons to make pottery. When Min's wife always cooked for Tree-ear to ear would hide it and give it to

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