Long after the father dies, his son struggles to live an honorable life and the mother never gives up on a son who has become bitter and cold by the war and the outcome of this relationship. This is a wonderful book for teenagers because it allows them to go forward and backward in time. Teenagers have all the emotions and passions of an adult but they lack the historical context to assess those feelings. This is the magic of books. But back to the issue of pornography.
Pornography is when the actual sex act is severed from the human relations bound to the act.
I think Ms. Terry created the pornography by taking the scenes out of context. If Ms. Terry is an advocate for teenage celibacy than we might be on the same side, providing she agrees that young virginal males cannot fight in a war because they are still children. The historical reality was that the Japanese were put in concentration camps. When the Germans began to lose the war it became cheaper to annihilate the Jews. Hitler modeled his concentration camps on the internment and annihilation of the Native Americans in this country.