Novel Questions

1. It is set in 1954 but there is also flashbacks in the story. It is set on San Piedro Island in the Puget Sound region of Washington.
2. Carl Heine's boat's name was Susan Marie named after his wife.
3. The name of the sheriff was Art Moran and the deputy, Abel Martinson.
4. Carl's body was found in the netting of his fishing boat in the water and he had a blow to his head.
5. Kabuo's Miyamoto's attorney was Nels Gudmundsson and he was an older, inquistive, well schooled lawyer.
6. Etta Heine was an older woman, Carl's mother. She held grudges and disliked the Japanese and disliked even more that her husband made a deal with them with his land. She was a cold woman and not nice.
7. Zenhichi and Carl Sr. make a deal that the Heines would take his berries and sell them for whatever they are worth.
8. Carl was an unprejudiced man who differed from his wife in the way he thought about other people and how to treat them.
9. After Kabuo returned from the war to the island he discovered that the land his family had bought was sold.
10. Carl Heine Jr. had offered to buy Ole's land when he was selling instead of letting Kabuo buy it even though Kabuo believed it was rightfully his.
12. the Japanese were treated poorly by the Government and their belongiings were forgotten and the men were forced to fight.
13. Fujiko learns about the relationship by reading a letter from Ishmael. She talks to Hatsue about the letter, ordering her never to write or speak to Ishmael again. Hatsue agrees and writes a break-up letter to Ishmael.
14. Ishmael changed and was full of pity for himself because of the break up. He was bitter about it and hates that Hatsue did it.
15. Ishmael goes to the coast guard lighthouse to compare the present blizzard to past winter storms. He finds out that the storm and the waves from the "Corona" caused the death of Carl.
16. Kabuo, in the morning of September 16 and told Hatsue that he saw Carl stranded in his boat and loaned him a battery and after, Carl said to Kabuo that he would sell the land to him for $8,400.
17. Alvin Hooks discredits Hatsue's testimony by saying that Kabuo could have pretended to have an emergency, tied their boats together and he murdered Carl.
18. Kabuo lied to Nels by saying that he had not spoken to Carl on the night of his death even though he had because he didn't want to have anyone accuse him.
19. It takes Ishmael so long to tell of his findings because he was still upset about Hatue and didn't want to help he husband.
20. The death of Carl was actually caused by the wake of the passing freighter knocking Carl off the mast while he was cutting the lantern loose, which would explain the missing knife and lantern.
21. The significance of the novel's last sentence: "accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart" was that Ishmael realized that even though the truth of Carl's death had been revealed, the truth of Hatue,Ishamel, and Kabuo's heart's will never be revealed.