Grandfather's+Journey



Setting: California and Japan

Characters: Grandfather, wife (grandmother), daughter (Allen Say's mother), grandson (Allen Say),

Summary: Grandfather travled and explored alot around the world.He met alot of differen't people from other contries. After a few years he went back to his village in Japan where he met a lovly women and brought her back to the new country and had a baby girl. As the baby grew older the more her father thought about his life as a child.When his daughter was a women they returned to his homeland. His daughter was not happy in the new vilage.Then the war began in the small village.When his grandson was nearly grown he left the village and went to Calafornia.In Japan he was homesick for Calafornia and when he was in Calafornia he was homesick for Japan jest like his grandfather !!! Important vocabulary: enormous, journey, marvel, explore, astonish, bewilder, surround