Reading Log for Week 7

I am continuing reading the "Snow Falling on Cedars Book" now, I not so much involved in the personal histories of every character, the author seems to be touching more on the love story as well as the history of the Indians and Japanese migrant workers. It's amazing to me the level of patiance, determination, and strength that the nonlegal citizens faced. All of the Japanese characters in the book knew of every plant on the island, it's name, if it was edible for spices or teas, and where they would grow best. I am mildly upset at the lack of respect folowing the fact that they were the biggest help during Strawberrry season as well as fishing goes.
The big focus right now, is the pact that the accused murder, the Japanese fisherman, and his deceased made over seven acres of land. Oriiginally, non U.S. citizens couldn't purchase land in United States, and thus the agreement between the two wasn't actly on the up and up. However, at some point during WWII the governement asks that all migrant Japense workers return to their country. The fisherman's wife sells the land, after the Japenese family were only one payment away from owning it. The son of the Japanese man, the accused murderer, returns to the U.S. some years later to find that his families valuabe investment was sold right under the families nose on the contengency that they didn't make the last payment. This is as far as I have gotten.