Chapter Seven: Folding Paper Cranes Summary and Analysis

A nurse brought Sadako and Kiyo hundreds of paper cranes that a school girl had sent to the hospital. Sadako remembered that her mother had told her a story about folding paper cranes - "if you fold a thousand paper cranes, your wish will come true." (58) Sadako decided that was exactly what she would do. She believed that if she folded a thousand paper cranes on her own that her wish would be granted. It took some doing to find enough paper, but she used every form of paper she could find including even candy wrappers. Even though her condition worsened, she would not give up her goal. Her father seeing that Sadako was getting worse, asked for permission to bring her home on weekends. Sadako was elated for the chance to spend...