Instead she just thought about it and made paper cranes. She cried some, but not very much. She tried to pay no attention to death, but it kept coming back in her mind so she touched the golden crane and her kokeshi doll and she also made more cranes. After Kenji died Sadako was afraid that she would be next. Nurse Yasuraga tried to comfort her by saying that Kenji's spirit was happy and glad to be rid of that ruined body. She was only more afraid. Her mother tried to comfort her by giving Sadako a bundle of her favorite foods wrapped in furokshiki paper. Sadako couldn't eat one bite because of her pain, but it comforted her all the same. Her mother also made her a beautiful silk kimono. She was happy when she got to go home for O-Bon.
The author says that Sadako's spirit might have gone to fly with the cranes. The Japanese think that you become a guardian spirit when you die. They also think that the afterlife is a paradise. You have no pain and suffering in the afterlife. Sadako had courage and I learned a lot of things about Japanese culture including their attitudes about death.
Everyone has there own way of accepting death. Sadako's way was to rely on her family and the legend of the paper cranes. She envisioned her spirit flying with the cranes. I have learned that Japanese believe in the stories that have been handed down from generation to generation. I do not believe that we go to fly with cranes but I do believe that it is important to have faith in what we believe in. Sadako had faith in the cranes and that is what got her through. .
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If I Had a Life-Threatening Illness.
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I really have never thought about this question before. What would I feel like if I had a life-threatening illness? I would probably feel a lot of different emotions and pains all at once, but my strongest feeling, I think, would be fear because everyone is afraid of the unknown.
I would be afraid, angry, sad, and in pain all at once.
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