There are strong friendships, and some pretty rough scenes that make the good times all the mor Samurai Shortstop is a commendable book. The most notable funny part in this book for me was when the besuboru laded in a merchant's cha. It brings to life Ichiko, and what it must have been like to be a student there during that timeline. It opens a realistic door to Japan during the transition to the modern age and the end of the Samurai. I would also recommend it to students who like reading about school life it would be great to contrast this historical account to the accounts of high school life nowadays.more I could recommend this to any student interested in Japanese or Asian culture. If I could just get some kids to read it, they'd be just as enthralled but I haven't had any success yet. I wish it weren't based on true stories but it is and, let me tell you, life in Japanese high school in the early 20th and late 19th centuries was tough! The blood, gore, and hazing students were expected to endure was appalling. I liked the cover and I've been intrigued by Japanese historical fiction since reading "Memoirs of a Geisha" so I took the book home to read over the weekend. Our school had just received a shipment of new books and teachers were allowed to pick through the collections to add to their libraries.
I wish it weren't based on true stories but it is and, let me tell you, life in Ja This is another book I chose by its cover. This is another book I chose by its cover. Expertly researched by debut author Alan Gratz, it’s a sports story and more, about a boy who must choose between two ways of life, but finds a way to bridge them.more And to his surprise, the warrior training guides him to excel at baseball, a sport his father despises as yet another modern Western menace.Īt its heart a novel about a boy who loves baseball, Samurai Shortstop is fascinating, suspenseful, and intense. It’s only when his father decides to teach him the way of the samurai that Toyo grows to better understand his uncle and father. But he grieves for his uncle, a samurai who sacrificed himself for his beliefs, at a time when most of Japan is eager to shed ancient traditions. Toyo is caught up in the competitive world of boarding school, and must prove himself to make the team in a new sport called besuboru. It’s only when his father decides to teach him the way of the samurai that Toyo g Tokyo, 1890. Then toyo finds a way to use bushido and baseball at the same time so he can be the greatest baseball player in the world.Tokyo, 1890. When his dad finds out he joined the baseball team he gets really angry at him and his dad wants him to learn the way of bushido (the way of the warrior).
But when Toyo joined the highly respected baseball team at Ichiko high school, things with him and Junzo, the leader of the senior storm pack and the leader of the baseball team, seem to turn out better because Junzo does not want his new shortstop. When Toyo and Koji are in there dorms sleeping the seniors start the storm (The storm is when all of the seniors of the school go around and storm into all of the freshmen dorms at night and beat up all of the freshmen). But after toyo's cabin experience this storm they decide to trick the seniors by hiding and then coming out when the seniors are looking around and start beating on the seniors. His uncle must kill himself through the ritual called Seppuku (is when a samurai chooses to commit suicide because they went against the way of the warrior). So now Toyo is left with just his father and his best friend Futoshi.
The focus of the book is on a freshman boy named Toyo Shimada who is really into the sport of Baseball.
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