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==Hi, Brian. Mahalo (thank you!) for the great letter and alternate endings to UNDER THE BLOOD-RED SUN. I got a kick of of them, really. Some of imaginings were very creative (Rico as a gambler -- ha!). And I guess Keet made some enemies with your readers, as Max has Tomi killing off poor old Keet Wilson. Max should like this: Keet gets even nastier in HOUSE OF THE RED FISH. I hope your guys like that book, too. It picks up some of the action of RED SUN and carries it forward. Grampa, too, is in that one (really? How can that be?). I still have two more books to write in the war series. Check out EYES OF THE EMPEROR, too. It's based a another true WWII event, one you may find surprising. That book follows Eddy Okubo, who is Herbie Okubo's brother (one of the Kaka'ako boys). Many thanks to you and your outstanding students! Aloha, Graham Salisbury --  [ http://www.grahamsalisbury.com ]www.grahamsalisbury.com My newest book: NIGHT OF THE HOWLING DOGS (now also a Recorded Books audio book) Coming in March 2009: CALVIN COCONUT in TROUBLE MAGNET  What I'm reading now: THE BRASS VERDICT, by Michael Connelly==

==Recently we finished up Graham Salisbury's __Under the Blood Red Sun__. Each student wrote up several "epilogues" concerning characters in the story. They have each chosen one of these epilogues to send to the author.==


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Mose Arianna Sanson

Mose tried going to Pearl Harbor to see what it looked like after it got bombed but didn't think of army men guarding the site. He ended up getting almost shot. He got a “C” on his volcano project, and he had to redo it by himself and ended up having to repeat the grade. Instead of repeating the grade though, he dropped out and got a full-time job at the pineapple picking place. He lived a pretty good life and everything outside of school seemed almost normal. He still played baseball with his friends and and slept and ate and every thing he neads to live. Is there really anything he needs other than that?

Tomi

Tomi eventually got a job at a pizza place. The only problem was that every other employee was a haole except for Rico and Mose. The boss treated them differently he didn’t pay them as much and yelled at them a lot. Eventually Tomi and Mose and Rico walked into their boss’s office and asked if they could get a raise. The boss laughed as if it was a joke then he realized that they were serious. Then gave them a glower and they left. They weren’t fired but, they were close. Tomi had a bad day at work but, it was about to get better. Mom got a message that day that papa and grandpa were coming back. The war ended 3 years ago.

The Americans kept the Japanese a little bit longer then normal because they just wanted to make sure that there were no spies. Which there weren’t. That night at twelve o’clock midnight papa and grandpa came home. Tomi and Kimi were asleep. The next morning they lived there normal lives and papa got some more pigeons and they lived in peace. Tomi eventually got into a really good college with a really good educational program. by Dylan G.

In the end Mari goes to the mainland when she’s 12. She gets a job and can visit her mom, but her mom is very, very, very sick and sadly she dies. But since Mari isn’t able to pay to get back to the island without the help of her mothers money, she snuck on a boat and was a stowaway aboard the U.S.S Fetcher. Her journey is long and she almost starved, but she still got there. When they docked she came up on deck and looked over the edge of the boat, in the water she saw her mother floating away. She jumped in, grabbed on to her mothers arm and never let go. She’s in a good place.

Billy and Tomi, now 19 walk along Pearl Harbor sadness in their eyes. Billy bent down and picked something up, it was the binoculars, and barnacles clung to the leather strap. Billy pulled a banana off of a near by tree and through it in to the water. He bet down and began to cry. by William

Sydney Oct 21st 2008 KIMI Kimi in the future is going to be afraid of a lot of things but over time she will be less afraid of those things. When she gets older she is still going to be shy but less than she was before. She is going to be very smart and a little cautious. Mari will be her companion and they will grow up together. She will be a big help to mama by making rice and feeding the chickens. She will learn more Japanese ways and traditions eagerly. Tomi will teach her about the Katana and that will be one of the many traditions that she will learn. She will have to deal with prejudice and a little bit of poverty. Those are a couple of the obstacles she will face in the future. Those obstacles may be hard for her to overcome but I think she can do it. THE END

A BETTER ENDING = =

Tomi: Tomi is going to have to work for his family at the local supermarket. His boss will only pay him $2.00 an hour because of the war. He works there almost all day on the weekends. Tomi has been work at the supermarket for the last 4 years. He and his father have been able to buy his family and car and some house upgrades. His father still is a fisherman. Tomi is now 17 and has is own little beach house that Billy’s dad owns and lets Tomi stay in it. Tomi now plays on the University of Hawaii’s baseball team. Mose, Rico, and Billy also play on that team. Some Major League team scouts are coming to Hawaii to watch some of their games. They really watch Billy, Tomi, Rico, and Mose play. In Tomi’s spare time he likes to study how to use a katana. He is learning most of this from Grampa. Grampa may be 75 years old but he still can bring it with the katana! by Calvin

Max Cook 10/14/2008 A better ending

Billy/Tomi: I think that Billy will make the Major League (Baseball) and Tomi will be his agent and make a lot of money together and keep making as much as possible. Then once Tomi makes enough money he will pay for the release of Grampa and Papa. Then he will kill Keet Wilson. The team Billy is on is the Atlanta Braves and he makes it to the World Series and pitches a no hitter and will win the game. Tomi maries Mari and have six kids. Billy gets married to another haole and travels the world together. Sometimes they look for remains of Japanese history. One time he was looking in this very big valley and he finds an ancient katana. Tomi and Billy spend a lot of their time together. Billy and Tomi get older as days pass. Billy starts losing his touch so Tomi cannot make as much money. Billy gets cut from the team the next season and is miserable and he and Tomi retire and have enough money to bail out Papa and Grampa. They live together for a long time. Tomi buys a whole lot more chickens and pigeons and make a good amount of money on selling the eggs and showing off their pigeons at the circus. Some times they go out and just fish like crazy and have a lot of fun and catch a lot of aku. When they are very tired they might just lay on the soft hay in the chicken coop. They also have fun when they just go on long walks together at sunrise or sunset and look at the sky and talk about life and just go for hours and hours. Billy and Tomi sometimes go to the diamond grass. Rico: Rico will grow up a gambler drop out of collage and move to Las Vegas. He is a professional poker player and sometimes just for fun he plays the slot machine. He barely gets any sleep he is always at the casino playing poker, blackjack, roulette and all of those other games. He gets in a lot of gang fights and gets more and more scars that he shows off with along with his shades playing poker. Sometimes when he is mad because he lost a lot of money he usually walks around the casino seeing if any body is cheating. Whenever he is playing poker he watches everyone very carefully if they are stacking the deck. He is not an idiot; he makes a whole lot of money. He plays on those poker shows like World Poker Tour. Oh! And he likes to show off his scars and shades when the camera comes by.

Kimi: Kimi grows up to be a famous chef and makes a fortune on cooking. She writes a whole lot of cook books in her spare time. She lives in a very big house and has a lot of pets and marries a Japanese guy from Honolulu and they have two kids together. Her specialty is making rice with a very good sauce on top with beef. Her kids don’t like it when they go out to a restaurant to eat because they love it when Kimi cooks dinner at their house. She likes to visit Tomi and Billy some times. She also takes her kids to Japan and China. Kimi has already taught her kids (5 and 4) to make their own lunches like sandwiches soup and a lot of other things they are all a very happy family. She also visits Mama a lot more than everything else and spends a while with her and they help each other make dinner and talk about new recipes together.

 I think Mari and Kimi will enter a science fair contest when Mari is seven, and Kimi is eight. I think they will make a volcano, win the science fair, and get four dollars. Mari and her mother will be much poorer than Kimi’s family, so Kimi will let Mari have three of the dollars. By this time Mari’s neighborhood will be so dirty and rough, that her mother will buy a house close to Kimi’s. Then Mari’s mom can be a maid for some one, like mama. Then I think Mari’s mom will have a brain aneurism and die one day at work, so Mari will have to move in with Kimi’s family. Both girls will go to the same school, and high school. Then Kimi will get a scholarship for half of her years of collage, and Mari will get one for all four years. Then I think Mari will marry, have a child and name her Kimi. Then I think she will move to California with her family, and then have two more children, and name them Billy and Sanji. Then I think Kimi will marry and move to New Mexico. There I think she will have two children, and name them Reico and Tomi. Then I think Mari will get sick and move back to Tomi’s old house. There she will sell her old house, the one that is near the house she is living in now. Then I think she will write to her family, telling them to come live with her in Hawaii. They will agree to come. Mari won’t think her family will fit in the house she is in now, so I think she will buy Billy’s old house using the money she got from selling the two other houses plus some that she had saved up in California. And I think Kimi will move to Arizona with her husband when she is very old. **The End** Billy Billy stays at his school with his friends for one more year. But after that he is forced to go to a fancy school for white kids. The only good thing about the school is its baseball team. The baseball team is very good and has not lost a game for a year. Billy finds a way to get Tomi on the baseball team. How he does this is he asks some people if he can let his friend be on the team he says nothing about Tomi being Japanese and they say yes he makes them promise and that’s how Tomi got on the team. Billy’s family becomes very good friends with Tomi’s family even though people still dislike the Japanese people. Billy gets a job so that he can give some of the money to Tomi’s family when ever they need it. Later Billy gets a job as a professional baseball player. Billy play’s for many years until he gets bad arthritis and cannot play any more. By Laurel
 * Character Trajectory Sarah Brock **
 * __Mari & Kimi__ **

When Grampa gets home from the mainland he is tired, dirty, hungry, and happy to be home. The first thing that Grampa does when he gets home is look for the katana. He found the katana in a hole in a huge oak tree far into the jungle. Grampa was so happy to see that the katana was in a safe place. Grampa brought the katana into the house so he could polish it. Grampa soon got into his stern and grumpy mood. Every now and then he would grant a little smile. A year after Grampa came back from the mainland he got an infection from a dog who bit him. The dog was a homeless dog so he didn’t know better. Fortunately, Grampa did not die. Mama used a little bit of medicine and a plant that she thought would help. Grampa was very lucky. Grampa was also able to assist Tomi with his schoolwork and teach Kimi about the extraordinary katana. The next person to help with the katana would be Kimi. One day in September Grampa found a secret place in the jungle when he was taking a walk. The place was secluded. That is why Grampa loved the place so much. Grampa spent most of his time in the secret place. He would always laugh and smile. Laughing and smiling made Grampa feel very good. By Liliana
 * Grampa**

Adriana Murillo 10-20- 08   **__Keet__** Keet got arrested for stealing a car. He had to stay in jail for five years. Mr. Wilson was so mad that he had to go to the hospital and stay their, because he was so crazy about his son going to jail. Every night Keet would cry and pout, he even threatened the police men. After five years Keet came out, very calm. It was a surprise that he was calm. Keet always visited his dad, because he was still in the hospital. Keet’s mom, Mrs. Wilson was so happy to see Keet at her house again. Finally 2 years after Mr. Wilson came out of the hospital. He was happier. Then about a year later, Keet became the same old Keet. He bulled Billy, Tomi, and other kids. He knocked down trees with his gun, it was a disaster, but everyone was used to him being like that. So it didn’t really matter.

Keet & Mr. Wilson I think Keet will sign up for the army. He can’t stand people being in control. He will murder somebody out of anger and stress. His dad hears why he was arrested and goes to jail to visit Keet. He tells him that he has ashamed Keet. Keet gets let out of jail five years later. Keet does not want to have any part of the world so he decides to become homeless. Mr. Wilson waits for Keet for five years and he doesn’t come home. Mr. Wilson then refuses to eat or drink and he dies of hunger and thirst. Keet will stay under that bush. Keet will die at age thirty-four. Because he gets the lung cancer and does not see the doctor when it happens and he first gets it. Keet will die at night when no one hears him and no one is there to help him. Mrs. Wilson will be depressed her whole life by family tragedy.

MR.WILSON By: Jackson H.   Mr. Wilson is scared for life, for Keet has run away. Mrs. Wilson has left Mr. Wilson, and has taken all the family money. Mr. Wilson is forced to sell his car just to afford the price of living. Mr. Wilson starts begging the Davisses for money. In nineteen forty two Mr. Wilson enlists into the army. He is paid fifteen dollars a week. He gets a job as a fighter pilot. After boot camp Mr. Wilson is sent to go bomb Moscow. As usual it is well defended. Five heat seeking missiles are launched from an enemy plane from Wilson’s blind spot. He was hit; this is the one thing he had not been trained for: flying a hit plane. Rapid fire anti-aircraft guns were firing. Wilson was the only one that hadn’t gotten hit by the fire of the anti-aircraft guns. Eventually Wilson was out maneuvered and taken prisoner by the soviets. Finally they killed him after a year as a prisoner of war. They did this by tying him up in chains, and drowning him.