Why/how is plot important to understand the book Eyes of the Emperor written by Graham Salisbury?From a teaching/recommending standpoint.

Like many other young adult novels, the plot of this book
follows a basic story-line: exposition, rising action, climax, resolution.  Because it
is a fairly simple storyline, it is easy for the targeted audience (grades 7-10) to
follow it.  In order to teach or recommend this book, the plot basics are as
follows:

• Exposition:
  set in Hawaii, just before the US enters WW2; Main character Eddy Okubo, a
  Japanese-American joins the US Army at 16;


• Main
  Conflict & Rising
  Action: Eddy's joining of the Army is the catalyst for all the
  conflicts/complications in the story, including prejudice (and behavioral reaction to
  this) that existed for Japanese-American soldiers, emotional conflicts of a soldier, and
  the struggle between Eddy and his family during this time; treatment of the Japanese
  soldiers grows worse as the conflict in the bigger war
  intensifies.


• Climax: the
  secret mission to train dogs to "smell" Japanese soldiers includes using
  Japanese-American soldiers in the training; Eddy is almost killed in this when his
  trainer calls the dog off too
  late.


• Resolution/Falling
  Action: the US re-evaluates the "dog project," deems it unsuccessful, and Eddy is sent
  to fight in Europe.