Toward Morning by Alta Halverson Seymour6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The sampan accidentally breaks loose from the river bank, and Tien Pao is carried back downriver, toward the Japanese.īefore Tien Pao can get to shore, the sampan is carried past Tien Pao’s burned village, which is now occupied by the Japanese. Mother carries the baby sister on her back. When they arrive at the village of Hengyang, the father and mother leave Tien Pao on the sampan with the pig and ducklings while they go to the American airfield to work. But now they are in a strange city with no money or food. For many days and nights, the family rowed the boat against the river’s current until they were safe from the Japanese. They escape from their burning village on a sampan on the river– Tien Pao, his father and mother, his baby sister, the family pig, a dishpan with three ducklings in it, and a rice mill. Except that the rain dripping on the boy’s sleeping pig is coming through a bullet hole in the roof.ĭuring China’s war with Japan concurrent with WWII, Tien Pao, a young Chinese boy, has fled with his family from the invading Japanese. For Wally, In memory of the compound in Peishiyi, China, And of little, lost Panz aĪs the setting is developed in the first couple of paragraphs, it might be any typical peaceful opening scene just a boy sheltering from the rain on a boat with his pets. ![]()
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