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The Importance Of Tree-Ear In A Single Shard

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One character I chose in the book “A Single Shard” is Tree-ear. He is a twelve-year-old boy growing up in Ch’ulp’o. He is an orphan that got his name from a mushroom that grows onto rotting logs “without benefit of parent seed”. Tree-ear, Crane-man and his protector live under a bridge. Crane-man taught Tree-ear the importance of being honest.

First of all, Tree-ear shows the reader his desire of honesty when a traveling man spills rice, and Tree-ear stops the man and lets him know. As a poor and hungry orphan, Tree-ear could have used the extra rice for his food. Tree-ear was also honest when the royal emissary asked him where his pottery had went and Tree-ear told him that he had gotten robbed. The robber had smashed his pottery and Tree-ear
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