Kadohata's The Story Devils: An Overview

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you only the viewpoint of the author to get facts from. Although this may
be a possibly unreliable perspective, due to selective memory, the story is told
in a straightforward manner suggesting truth and honesty.
During the story the author realizes that Mr. Mason is a violent man.
This is learned through several instances, such as when he forced the mother
into a crying fit in her bedroom in the beginning of the story. He was also
violent when he threw a rock at a young boy that had wandered over to the yard
to play. These incidents forced the author to do something that she did not
relish, but deemed necessary in order to save her family from this man; since
she new her mother was planning on marrying him. She lied to her mother and
told her that Mr. Mason had hit her. At first it wasn't believed, but when her
quiet sister Kate backed up her story, the mother sought to separate herself
from this man. The family moved to Chicago and the author never saw Mr. Mason
again.
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