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With knowledge and guidance from anyone that bothered to help, Seita could've been able to fend off better and feed himself and his sister better if he knew how to use and stretch the money in the bank account, instead of using it too late, when his sister couldn't be saved anymore.ĭ. If only Seita had known which office to go for information, or if an adult or even his aunt had cared to help with looking them up.Ĭ. The children didn't know how to find and get in touch with their relatives in Tokyo, who maybe would've helped them or at least not treated them so horribly as their aunt.

If the old woman had an ounce of compassion, had bothered to instruct Seita about work and using his parents' bank account, it'd have made a difference.ī. They had to go live in a cave and struggled way worse to find food. Their aunt was cruel and petty with them, robbing them of their food stores, lying to them about their rice portions, taking their foodstuff to feed herself and her daughter, verbally abusing them, and finally driving them away from her house. (view spoiler) [They could've survived because:Ī. Why do I think so? My reasons in spoiler brackets: Setsuko had fewer chances of surviving due to her age and helplessness on her own, certainly fewer than her brother, but she did have a chance, too. And yet, even so, many say they were crying like babies watching it.įor me, what made this story so unendurably sad was the realisation I had as I read that Seita could've survived. I can clearly see why the folks from Studio Ghibli had to 'soften' the cruelty of the story for their anime adaptation, which I scrambled to watch right after finishing the book, because otherwise fewer in the audience would've seen it. Your feelings won't be spared here, mine weren't, and I'm not one to avoid sad and tragic stories. That experience does show in how he tells the story, pulling no punches and sparing you not in the slightest, with a detailed and unrelenting narration of siblings Seita and Setsuko's misfortunes and struggles for survival. It's so tragic!Īkiyuki Nosaka is said to have based the plot on his own experience as a WWII orphan boy in Japan taking care of his baby sister, who died of malnutrition. Your fee Read this short story last week, and despite the time gone by I still flinch when I think of it. It's so tragic! Akiyuki Nosaka is said to have based the plot on his own experience as a WWII orphan boy in Japan taking care of his baby sister, who died of malnutrition.

Read this short story last week, and despite the time gone by I still flinch when I think of it. Read the review of the anime adaptation here (but be warned of spoilers): Grave of the Fireflies I remember crying buckets of tears over this one. There were only a handful of books that touched me, and this was one of them. It depicts the poignant consequences of war in society and sets a strong affirmation that it is always the innocent people that suffer the most in a war, be they end up victorious or defeated.

It is a heartbreaking tale of a young Japanese brother and sister who have been orphaned by war and are forced to endure the harsh life as their country’s campaign slowly crumbles and ends up on the losing side. It depicts the poignant consequences of war in society and sets a strong affirmation that it is always the innocent people th I read this book years ago as Tombstone for Fireflies, an illustrated children’s storybook based on the Japanese animated film adaptation, Grave of the Fireflies. I read this book years ago as Tombstone for Fireflies, an illustrated children’s storybook based on the Japanese animated film adaptation, Grave of the Fireflies.

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