The Samurai's Tale By Erik Christian Haugaard

Samurai Tale’s Secret Messages Samurai’s Tale will surely bring excitement, despair, and sadness to you with it's captivating story of an journey of a boy through Japan’s historic culture. The Samurai Tale is an amazing piece of historical fiction of medieval Japan by Erik Christian Haugaard. Taro is a young boy set out to regain his honor and dignity when his family is wiped out and Taro is taken away as a servant boy. He loses everything even his own family name. But Taro works hard on his way up to regain back his own honor. Taro becomes what he dreams becoming and faces tragedy and love on his way up. Taro works up his way up the social ladder and his character changes so much along the way that other characters begina to see him as a more mature, worthy, honorable man ready to receive the Samurai’s status and spirit.
Taro first rose from a servant boy to a stable boy and receives a mission intrusted by his master Akiyama. Akiyama only gave this job to Taro, making it known that Taro is slightly trusted by Akiyama. The saddle symbol shows Taro to be one of Akiyama’s trusted servants. It's also a privilege to be on a saddle since not many servants gets to ride on a saddle. It is also shows the acceptance and approval of Taro by Akiyama. A proof for this clue in Taro’s life is in this quote inpg 41, “I bowed deeply, in this way conveying the message that I hopped to be among trusted servants”. Taro is finally having acceptance as he is able to move up his rank. The saddle is the first symbol that plays Taro’s