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    The story "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket" by Yasunari Kawabata is about young childhood innocence and love. It takes place behind a university in a colorful embankment lit up by homemade lanterns. A young boy is giving away his "sacred grasshopper" when a young girl asks for it, but it turns out to be a bell cricket instead. Though they are unaware of it, this chance meeting causes the two children to fall in love.

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    The story "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket" by Yasunari Kawabata is about young childhood innocence and love. It takes place behind a university in a colorful embankment lit up by homemade lanterns. A young boy is giving away his "sacred grasshopper" when a young girl asks for it, but it turns out to be a bell cricket instead. Though they are unaware of it, this chance meeting causes the two children to fall in love.

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    The story "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket" by Yasunari Kawabata is about young childhood innocence and love. It takes place behind a university in a colorful embankment lit up by homemade lanterns. A young boy is giving away his "sacred grasshopper" when a young girl asks for it, but it turns out to be a bell cricket instead. Though they are unaware of it, this chance meeting causes the two children to fall in love.

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    The Grasshopper and The Bell Cricket

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    The story "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket" by Yasunari Kawabata is about young childhood innocence and love. It takes place behind a university in a colorful embankment lit up by homemade lanterns. A young boy is giving away his "sacred grasshopper" when a young girl asks for it, but it turns out to be a bell cricket instead. Though they are unaware of it, this chance meeting causes the two children to fall in love.

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    The key takeaways are that the story is about childhood innocence and friendship, and uses grasshoppers and bell crickets as symbols to represent different kinds of people.

    The story is set behind a university in a colorful embankment lit up by homemade lanterns in Japan.

    The main characters are Fujio, a young boy, and Kiyoko, a young girl.

    The Grasshopper

    and the Bell


    Cricket

    by Yasunari
    Kawabata


    Grasshopper

    Bell Cricket
    Grasshoppers are
    symbolic of most of
    the mediocre
    events in life that
    we often neglect.

    Bell cricket stands
    for the precious
    things in life that
    are worth
    treasuring.

    SETTING
    The Grasshopper and the Bell
    Cricket is set behind a university
    in an embankment.
    The embankment is a very
    colorful and magical place lit up
    by home-made lanterns.





    CHARACTERS
    NARRATOR
    Who might be the narrator
    in this story? What clues
    are provided in the story?
    What is this story all about ?
    lanterns
    insects
    young love
    PLOT
    A young boy and a young girl fell in love
    unexpectedly.

    It started off with a scene set with beautiful
    multicolored lanterns in Japan.

    Some children made their own lanterns out
    of cardboard and tissue paper.

    The young boy at first is advising his friends
    that he has a sacred grasshopper and that
    he is giving it away.



    As several children crowd around him, a
    young girl approaches and voices her
    desire for the grasshopper.

    But once Fujio hands her the
    grasshopper, Kiyoko realizes that it is
    not a grasshopper, but a cricket.

    Then they unknowingly fall in love.

    THEMES :
    CHILDHOOD INNOCENCE,
    JOY, FRIENDSHIP,LOVE,
    CULTURE, DIVERSITY
    AND CREATIVITY

    ,
    The children in the embankment are
    disinterested with the problems of the world.
    Their only worries are their lanterns and
    finding a grasshopper, or maybe even a bell
    cricket. Specifically, the main characters, Fujio
    and Kiyoko, are very innocent. They are
    unaware of their futures, and are focused only
    on the present and finding a grasshopper or a
    bell cricket.

    METAPHORS / SYMBOLS

    varicoloured lanterns
    DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS
    OF CHILDREN
    Red lantern having intense emotion
    Pink gentle emotions
    Yellow wisdom and intellect



    Indigo dignity and high
    aspirations

    Violet noble, spiritual
    aspirations,honor, spirituality
    and self-esteem.

    Green social stability and
    greediness
    u
    VALUES
    The story is able to provide a
    simplistic view of the world.

    It excludes biased impressions of
    friendship and love.

    Illustrating friendship, Kawabata
    creatively chosen the grasshopper
    as its symbol. "Does anyone want
    a grasshopper?
    IMAGES :
    SIGHT IMAGERY

    CONNECTION
    Yasunary Kawabata uses
    the title The Grasshopper
    and the Bell Cricket as a
    symbol to differentiate
    different kinds of people.
    REFLECTION: DRAW IMAGES
    SEEN IN THE SELECTION.
    ASSIGNMENT :
    1. Prepare for a test on the Introduction
    to Literature, east and west literature,
    Swaddling Clothes and The Grasshopper
    and the Bell Cricket.
    2. Interpret the poem Song from Shi
    Ching and be able to discuss it in class.
    3. What different stages in life of a
    woman is shown in the poem ? Explain
    your answer.

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