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1. Yoko enters the essay contest and wins first place, collecting 10,000 yen in the process
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Yoko has been helping and selling things that she has been making and she does not want to spends her money on shoes she spends it on food. Yoko also wins a contest and gets ten thousand yen and she wants to spend it on food not for her shoes.

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Throughout the story we can see that Yoko is becoming more mature. One example of when Yoko shows her maturity is when she doesn't use her prize money from the essay contest to buy herself shoes, and she uses it to buy food for herself and Ko. Also, she and Ko act very mature and invite Corporal Matsumura into their home for a meal.

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Yoko has become much more independent, such as selling things she makes so she can buy herself shoes. She is also making her own decisions, such as when her sister told her to go home and she instead walked around selling things. She is becoming less dependent also in how she decided to write the essay and not tell her sister, and when she won she proved to herself and to Ko that she can help her family even though she is younger.

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I have noticed that Yoko is growing up and changing  because
1. she needs new shoes badly but she doesn't complain about it
2. Yoko also buys Ko a meal on New Years eve

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-Yoko and Ko are running out of money especially with the change of tuition for school, so she decides to enter a contest and earn 10,000 yen

-Yoko and Ko invite corporal Matsumura to their house when he is in town and makes a new fresh meal for him and become the hostess for him

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- I notice that she is starting to become more responsible and take leadership
- she is growing up because she gave Ko a gift of green tea
- Yoko also writes in the essay contest so that she can get money instead of using the money in the cloth

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1. Yoko doesn't let anyone buy her shoes, she wants to use the money for food to feed herself and Ko .
2. Yoko and Ko are starving and Yoko enters the contest and wins 10,000 Yen.

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We see Yoko maturing everyday. One example of this is when she uses her shoe money that was hard to get and spends it on a feast for her and Ko. She is becoming more adventures for example when her sister tells her to go home from school and start a fire but she wants money so she goes to sell the things they made and then uses that money + her shoe money to buy s feast and she does this when she sees Ko working hard for money.

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1). Yoko is becoming more responsible and mature in every chapter. For example, when her mother is close to dying she takes the role of a mother and takes care of her during her last moments.
2). Next, she pushes through all of the pain and anger she feels for the people in her school. Like when they call her names and such.

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I've noticed that Yoko is much more mature because she is helping with some of the things only Ko was doing. I've also noticed that Ko is more strict because her Mother isn't there to tell Ko to be nicer to her sister. Although Yoko may not like this I think she is realizing it is necessary for them to survive.

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I think yoko has become more independent.

She sells bean bags to buy shoes

She wins the essay contest

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(1) Yoko is growing up and starting to act like an adult because of her actions. One example of her adult like actions is using her own money she earned to surprise Ko with a meal.

(2) Another actions that Yoko has done to prove her self to be maturing is when she works on an essay to get money for her family

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I noticed that Yoko has become more responsible and more mature. For example, when a girl in a car called her a rag doll, Yoko did not react like she usually did, but she just ignored her. Another example of this is when she bought a New Year's Eve meal for her and Ko, and surprised her with tea. If Mother were still alive, Yoko would probably not do these things. One more example is that she decided to enter the essay contest in order to get money so she could buy food for herself and Ko. Yoko also used her shoe money to buy food for her and Ko, which shows that she became more responsible and selfless.

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-Yoko uses her shoe money to buy herself and Ko a nice meal for New Years Eve
-She enters a contest to attempt to win money by writing a story. She wins 10,000 Yen

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Yoko is becoming more independent and mature each day

she entered the contest to win money

She is not having Ko do everything and she is working for herself

she got tea for Ko

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So far in chapters 9 and 10 I  noticed that Yoko is changing and becoming more mature since her mother died.

She bought a New Years Eve meal for her and Ko and suprised Ko with green tea. This shows how she stepped up to the plate and taking on the role mother had by getting food, because if mother didnt die then Yoko probally would not have done any of these deeds for them.

Another example is when she entered for the essay contest to help them get money that can put food on there plate for a couple of weeks. This shows how sh eis willing to work really hard to make the essay good to help out Ko and her.

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1.) Yoko is growing up/changing because she took the challenge to write something to get money for her and Ko.
2.) Yoko is growing up/changing because she made a meal for her and Ko and she shouldn't have to buy her own food.

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Yoko writes an essay for a newspaper contest and wins a lot of money.

Yoko has to prepare for Corporal Matsumaras's visit.