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A Single Shard

A Single Shard. By: Linda Sue Park Intro Have you ever wondered what life was like in Korea in the middle ages? Well, this story is about a boy who lived in middle age Korea and how his life was. Sean - 1. Linda Sue Park.

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A Single Shard

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  1. A Single Shard By: Linda Sue Park Intro Have you ever wondered what life was like in Korea in the middle ages? Well, this story is about a boy who lived in middle age Korea and how his life was. Sean - 1

  2. Linda Sue Park Lind Sue park is a Korean writer. She grew up in Chicago, Illinois. Her first publication was in a children’s magazine when she was nine years old. She went to Stanford University and graduated with a degree in English.In 1983, she went to Ireland and studied literature. There she got married. She moved back to the U.S. in 1990. In 1997, she published her first book, Seesaw Girl. Her next book was Kite Flyers (2000). Park was awarded the Newberry Medal for A Single Shard. Lind sue park now resides in New York.

  3. Characters • Tree-ear- orphan, main Character of the story. His dream is to become as great of a potter as Min. • Crane-man- poor man, lives under a bridge. Took in Tree-ear when he was a boy. • Min- master potter. Admired by Tree-ear. His dream is to commission pots for the king.

  4. Setting This story takes place in twelfth century Korea. The city is CH’ulp’O.

  5. Summary This story is about a Korean boy named Tree-ear. His parents died when he was a toddler, and was taken in by a poor man named Crane-man. For a lot of his life he lived under a bridge with Crane-man living on scraps of food. Tree-ear admired the work of Min, the master potter, but when he accidentally breaks one of his pots he works for him to pay the debt. Min’s dream is to commission pots for the king, and he gets his chance when the royal emissary says that if he can bring his work to Songdo, he will get the job. Tree-ear offers to take the pots to Songdo, but on the way is robbed, and the robbers broke the pots. He takes a single shard from the pile of broken pottery and shows it to the emissary.The emissary like es the piece and puts Min on commission. When Tree-ear returned to Ch’ulp’o, he found that Crane man had died. Min and Ajima took him in as their own son.

  6. Review I did not like this book. It was not very exciting at all. It is a simple story about a poor Korean boy. I also do not like most historical fiction stories, so that is also a reason I did not like it. The story is very slow moving. I do not like the plot either. I would not recommend this story to many people. I give this book 1 star.

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