Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Because this was a project about origami, the required reading was a short story: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, by Eleanor Coerr. This book is the story of a young girl in post-World-War-II Japan, who contracted leukemia as a result of radiation from the atomic bomb that devastated Hiroshima. She believed in good luck signs, and in the hospital she decided to follow the course of an old story that said that anyone who could fold 1,000 paper cranes could appease the gods and bring good health. Sadly, her disease ran its course before she could finish, and she managed to fold over 600 cranes before she passed away.
Below is a summary of Chapter 4 that I wrote for a project assignment.
Below is a summary of Chapter 4 that I wrote for a project assignment.