Jessie+R~+Mrs.+Frisby

Jessie Remmey May 21, 2010 Period 1 

Ko and Mrs. Frisby  I read two very interesting books. Ko is the character from the books __So Far from the Bamboo Grove__ by Yoko Kawashima Watkins and the sequel __My Brother my Sister and I.__ She is a teenager living in Japan that escaped from Nanam during World War Two. Ko, her sister Yoko, brother Hideyo, and Mother were on their way to Seoul. Mother died when she got back from Aomori and Hideyo arrived months later. Now they are living in a warehouse in Kyota trying to survive off of little money, small meals, and many challenges. Mrs. Frisby on the other hand, is also trying to save her family. She is the main character from the book __Mrs.Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.__ One of her sons, Timothy, is terribly ill and cannot have even just one breath of cold air. Winter has ended which means the farmer will be turning over the garden with the tractor...along with their home. Since it’s to cold to move yet, Mrs.Frisby seeks help and goes to the rats. There is only a matter of time before the tractor will destroy their home and them! Ko and Mrs. Frisby have similar and different character traits.

First, Ko is very bossy. She is bossy because she forced Yoko, her younger sister, to scramble through the garbage to find leftover food to eat. Ko always bosses her around. When Yoko got a decent meal for Hideyo, which she had to work hard for, Ko was only thinking about why she didn’t do her chores and didn’t care that Yoko got the food for dinner. Next Ko is extremely brave. In the first book, Ko shows bravery when she and Yoko and Mother were crossing the bridge on the way to Seoul. Ko is first which means if a train were to come she would have no escape. Yoko and Mother would have time because they are far behind her and could probably find safety. Ko was looking out for danger. In the book __My Brother, my Sister, and I__, Ko is protective because she protects Yoko. Before Dinner, Yoko spotted a mysterious man outside of the warehouse. Ko did not let Yoko go outside so she grabbed a hot stick and ran outside. She said if he would try to hurt her or Yoko, she would hit him with the stick. On the other hand, Mrs. Frisby from the book __Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH__ by Robert C. O’Brien is not bossy at all. In fact, she is the opposite. Mrs. Frisby is kind and caring. When she met the rats she spoke to them kindly and begged them to help. She did not force them to or boss them around and tell them what to do. However, Mrs. Frisby is very brave. When the owl invited her deep into his tree hole she would have to go in at her on risk. After all, she just met the owl and didn’t know if she could trust him or not from just what Jeremy, the crow, told her. Even though she wasn’t sure if it was safe or not she was brave and went inside. Like Ko, Mrs. Frisby protects her family. Throughout the entire book Mrs. Frisby is protective because she is trying to save her sick son Timothy and the rest of the family by getting the rats to help her move her house near the rock. They only have limited time before the farmer, Mr. Fitzgibbon brings his tractor out and plows the garden over along with the Frisbys and their home.

Ko and Mrs. Frisby have two alike character traits. They are both brave and protective. The only different one is Ko is bossy and Mrs. Frisby is the opposite. She is caring and kind. Both books are really fun to read and have good characters with interesting character traits.