Section 4: pages 46-57 Summary

As time passes, Jiya and Kino grow into strong young men, and Setsu grows into a pretty, willful girl. Time is split into before and after the big wave because it had changed everyone's lives. No one lives on the beach for many years, though there is never another wave like the big wave. The surviving fishermen move to new shores, telling themselves no beach is as good as the old one. Kino and Jiya rarely visit the deserted beach, swimming in the ocean on the other side of the hill, but Jiya looks at the empty beach every morning as if searching for something. One day, he calls Kino to see that two men are building a house on the beach. The boys run to the beach where the elder man explains that they lived here with their...