Red Fish Loyalty Quotes

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The word “loyalty”,loyalty could mean so many things to people just matters on how you think of the word loyalty.Loyalty is used in friendships,family,and love with another person having loyalty with those kinds of people make the relationship stronger.The definition of loyalty is “The quality of being loyal to someone or something” and “a strong feeling of support or allegiance”. In the book House Of The Red Fish the main character Tomi Nakaji showed act of loyalty to his father’s boat because he knows that the boat was something his father deeply loved very much.Since the Japanese bombed pearl harbor, the canal sank but that never stop Tomi from trying to recover that boat. Loyalty also means having someone's back at all times, just like

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