Suffering and grief know no boundaries, Lowry suggests. Frank Cabiness’s watch had stopped in the inferno at Pearl Harbor, four years earlier. It was stuck at 8:15 - the same time Pfc. Elizabeth and her sister and pregnant mother live with her grandparents while her father is fighting in the Pacific. “But he found, in the ruins, his father’s watch,” Lowry says. Lois Lowry wrote another book set in the same time period: Autumn Street (Dell, 1980 ISBN 0440403448 Hardcover Paperback) shows life on the home front, in this case, Philadelphia during World War II.
Shinji Mikamo survived the bombing, but once he was able to walk again, two months later, he discovered his father had not. “They buried him in the garden, and with him, they buried his red tricycle.” One of them was 3-year-old Shinichi Tetsutani, who was playing with his tricycle on the morning that the Enola Gay airplane released its bomb, code-named “Little Boy.” “When his parents found him, he was still gripping the handlebar,” Lowry says. Army), and her sympathy extends to the more than 80,000 Japanese who were killed by the American atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. She lived in Tokyo as a child (her father served on hospital ships for the U.S.
Lowry’s book is not simply about the victims of Pearl Harbor.
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