Award-winning author Andrew Matthews has written over 60 books for young readers. Way of the Warrior is a fast-paced coming-of-age story set in feudal Japan. The main character Jimmu is rendered an orphan when his parents bring shame upon the family and commit a sacred form of suicide. Jimmu is left in the care of his father’s trusted samurai, who raises the youngster as a warrior assassin bent on avenging the family name.
Jimmu matures and is also taught by other samurai warriors, men steeped in honor and tradition. Their teachings soon conflict with Jimmu’s plan for revenge and cause him to realize that a true samurai warrior is as deft with his intellect, and his virtue, as he is with his sword.
Jimmu learns that his life has been built upon a lie and that he must reconstruct his mind, body and soul in such a way that his true warrior nature prevails over his warped, false concept of a warrior. His struggle to overcome his faulty operant conditioning, and find a new family in the process, proves bloody and almost fatal.
This is a book about principle, loyalty, and the constant war within to ‘do the right thing,’ in particular when the right thing is nebulous and unknown. Take fate and destiny in hand and rely on intuition to guide you down the correct path - that is the way of the warrior.
From August 2010, http://raising-a-man.tumblr.com
Jimmu matures and is also taught by other samurai warriors, men steeped in honor and tradition. Their teachings soon conflict with Jimmu’s plan for revenge and cause him to realize that a true samurai warrior is as deft with his intellect, and his virtue, as he is with his sword.
Jimmu learns that his life has been built upon a lie and that he must reconstruct his mind, body and soul in such a way that his true warrior nature prevails over his warped, false concept of a warrior. His struggle to overcome his faulty operant conditioning, and find a new family in the process, proves bloody and almost fatal.
This is a book about principle, loyalty, and the constant war within to ‘do the right thing,’ in particular when the right thing is nebulous and unknown. Take fate and destiny in hand and rely on intuition to guide you down the correct path - that is the way of the warrior.
From August 2010, http://raising-a-man.tumblr.com
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