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Figurative Language In The Seventh Man

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In “The seventh man”, Murakami uses the wave as figurative language to characterize the wave as a destructive force. When the mane is describing the entity, he uses fear as an example “that… fear was… the wave (420 Murakami)”. The fear comes from when the wave hit and stole everything precious to him; such as K, then mocked him as it drug K away. The sight of K’s final moments ending right before his eyes caused him to have life long night terrors and haunting his every waking and sleeping moment. This caused him to not make any close relations with the people he meets years to come. The man wondered as to what made this fear into what it is, and his theory is that seeing K forcefully taken from him and his last appearance viewed as “his cold

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