Persuasive Letter Writing About Fishing

I miss you very much. I hope you are ok and that everyone in our family and in the village is alright. I am fine, but I miss you. I wanted to write you a letter to update you on some of the changes that have happened to since I went fishing on that day many months ago. It is January of 1841. Off the shore at Japan and fishermen's are in a boat. After three days of them not catching fish, they are so busy catching that they don't even notice a storm that is coming by them. By the time they notice, it is too late. The boat rudder and sail broke and they lose the rowing oars. Days pass as they drift at sea. The water splashing into the boat has swept away almost all they had managed to catch. They all talk about the barbarians and they talk about their looks and

They use a cave for shelter and it isn't very warm inside. They have plenty of birds to eat, but they are all sick of eating raw birds. They don't even have any way to make a fire. Manjiro thinks about the first day they arrived on the island. The boat hit the rocks, capsizing and cracking. After an earthquake, they used the cave as shelter and it was covered with rocks. Goemon, a boy and the same age as Manjiro, talks with Manjiro about how Manjiro can never be a samurai now. Goemon goes on to explain that samurais come from families of samurais, as fishermen come from families of fishermen.When Manjiro wakes up again, he's staring at twelve pairs of shoes. He's on board the John Howland, surrounded by blue eyed, gray eyed, and one eyed sailors. The sailors feed the fishermen and give them new clothes to wear. The sailors teach the fishermen about eating with a fork, how to button their clothes, what shoes are, and what a pocket is in their pants. The fishermen are also taken aback by how nice the rooms in the ship are. Manjiro spends time onboard the ship, he starts to learn the language and the names for various items on the