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Main Characters
- Three-year
Three-year is one of the main characters in this book who is twelve-year-old and was adopted by Clane-man; who live in under the bridge when he was a little child. He has a good relationship with Crane-man like a best friend. He became to admiring to become a potter as he observes and assists Min’s work.
- Crane-man
Crane-man is the one who rises up Tree-ear and homeless who live with Three-year under the bridge. He has handicap since he doesn’t have one side of the leg like a crane. (this is how the name came from) Crane-man is pretty optimistic and insists to Tree-ear that “standing on one leg, cranes are also a symbol of long life.” (7)
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Where is Ch’ulp’o located?
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Ch’ulp’o (Chulpo-ri) is one of the small villages where is located in Dangjin, South Chungcheong, Korea. By facing front to the ocean, there is a certain place that potters can fill the kiln and “ the potters took turns using the kiln and keeping up the supply of fuel” (p. 19) Ch’ulp’o is well known as celadon pottery village as main setting of this book. It will take 3-4 hours by driving from the capital city, Seoul to Ch’ulp’o.
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Kimchi
When Min’s wife serve the supper for Three-year and Min, there is a couple of time that Korean traditional food, kimchi is coming out at the table.
Kimchi is vegetables which are ferenting for four days to a week with room temperature. We can use any vegetable you went, generally, people use cabbage or cucumbers. Kimchi contain vitamin A, B and C which called “healthy bacteria” and same benefit as yogurt does.
Kimchi is eaten by many Korean people and, familiar as side dishes and eaten almost every single meal. Nowaday, Kimchi is well known as one of the super food.
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A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park 