Shirley's Answer:
Question: “Why might Cynthia Kadohata have chosen to write this book? How have her life experiences given her insight?”
She spent her early childhood in the South; both her first adult novel and first children's novel take place in Southern states. Her first adult novel was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Cynthia Kadohata is a Japanese American children's writer known best for winning the Newbery Medal in 2005. Kadohata was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in 1986.
Weed flower, her second children's book, was published in Spring 2006. It is about the Poston internment camp where her father was imprisoned during World War II. Her third children's novel, about the Vietnam War from a war dog's perspective, was published in January 2007 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
Outside Beauty, another children's novel, was published in 2008. It is about a 13-year-old girl and her three sisters, all fathered by different men and what happens when she and her sisters are separated from each other after their mother gets into an accident.
I found those information on line and I think that she chose this book to write because she had a very unforgettable childhood that time. She had man funny experience at that time, or not happy may be sad story that time, that time because they are different from the other people so may be the American people will not say hello and polite to them, but there is also some happy things like she plays with Lynn, happy together, sad together. When she grown up she can’t forget those memory in her childhood, so she want to write them up and tell everyone, or maybe she just want to let her know she had
So good memory in her childhood.
Her life experience it’s not bad I think, ay be her life experience let her become more diligent and strong, she can face the problem after the experience she first came to the school and knew that the people are impolite to them.
