Snow Falling on Cedars is often characterised as "a novel of place." What are the significant places in the text? What occurs in each?

... Snow Falling on Cedars is often characterised as "a novel of place." What are the significant places in the text? What occurs in each? Compare and contrast the mood and tension found in the various settings and the role each provides in both character and plot development. "Snow Falling on Cedars" by David Guterson concerns a Japanese man named Kabuo Miyamoto who is accused of killing a fisherman named Carl Heine. There are four main areas throughout the analepsis, Amity harbour, the cedar forest, the strawberry fields and the sea. It is in these four areas that the majority of the analepsis takes place. Amity Harbour, an "eccentric, rainy, wind-beaten sea village" is "the island's only town" and is also where the courthouse is situated. It is a small and primitive town. It is the harbour to many fishing boats and in particular Carl Heine's boat the "Susan Marie" and

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