Tomi Nakaji's House Of The Red Fish

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Tomi Nakaji is the overall main character in the book “House of The Red Fish”. The book’s foundation is on what it was like firsthand, having an ethnicity of Japanese, and living on Oahu after the Pearl Harbor bombing. It uses Tomi’s point of view, so what kind of person did the author make Tomi? What are his defining characters? In “House of The Red Fish”, Tomi Nakaji was determined, brave, and kind. First, one of his obvious traits was not giving up or being determined. Tomi works up his muscles so he can become strong, (Page 9, “every day I worked at lifting a thirty-pound boulder”). Throughout the book Tomi’s plans to bring up the Taiyo Maru are being devastated, but he still tries no matter what (Page 152, ”we did it-all twenty-three