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Symbolism is the use of any objects, people, and/or actions that can represent an idea.
The wave in the story represents fear for the narrator. "It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us." (Murakami)
A simile is a literary device that an author can use to compare two things to give you a more vivid description.
"We were like brothers, walking to and from school together, and always playing together when we got home." (Murakami)
Tone is the way the writer makes the flow of the story go by the choice of words and viewpoint.
The tone of this story is depressing for the most part. "My father had died of cancer the year before, and my brother had sold the old house."
A flashback is a recall of an event that has happened in your past that is usually sudden and disturbing.
"I grew up in a seaside town in the province of S. it was a small town, I doubt that any of you would recognize the name if i were to mention it." (Murakami)
A warning of some kind through words or actions that something is going to happen in the future.
"Child though I was, I had grown up on the shore and knew how frightening the ocean could be–the savagery with which it could strike unannounced." (Murakami)
Point of view is the position that the narrator is telling the story from.
The point of view of this short story begins in 3rd person, but then changes to 1st person. Then goes back to 3rd person. "We couldn’t have been doing this more than five minutes when I realized that the waves had come up right next to me." (Murakami)
Personification is giving a nonhuman object human characteristics
"Without any sound or other warning, the sea had suddenly stretched its long, smooth tongue out to where I stood on the beach." (Murakami)
A metaphor is a figure of speech that compared to something or object that is not possible.
"I felt as if some kind of creature had taken up residence in my mouth." (Murakami)
The conflict of the short story is the narrators struggle with fear of his best friend K.'s death and the way that K. left him thinking. "One way or another, though, I
managed to recover—physically, at least. But my life would never be the same again." (Murakami) This quote shows that the narrator is still mentally scarred even though his body is back to normal. This is where the narrator had a turning point in the story and started grieving over his best friends death for years to come.
I think that the author wrote the story to entertain and inform people. The author wrote a good story that entertained people with the action and feelings that the narrator experienced. The author also informed people by talking about fear at the end. “They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself; but I don’t believe that,” he said. Then, a moment later, he added: “Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes."
"Murakami 44"
The summary of this short story is a hard one to explain because of all the time changes throughout. The story starts off by telling the reader that the narrator is telling a story about his life. He starts his story by saying that he used to live in a town called S. with his family and his best friend K. Then him and his friend go out on the beach after a storm just brewed by. It ended badly because his friend got taken away by a huge wave that he could have saved K. from.He then moves away form his home town to try to forget and grieves about that moment until one day he faces his fears and goes back to the beach and is no longer scared of that moment.
The author of "The Seventh Man" is Haruki Murakami. He was born on January 12th in 1949. He is from Kyoto, Japan but moved to the U.S. because the more famous authors in Japan dissed his work because of the american influence he liked to write about. Today he is popular and well known, but not as much as he was in the 1990's.
(Haruki Murakami 1)