KOKORO CHAPTER SUMMARY SENSEI & I 1. Narrator is in Kamakura. Walks to the beach every day. 2. Sensei was with a foreigner. Narrator watches Sensei’s movement with the foreigner. 3. Sensei drops his sunglasses. Stalks Sensei out to sea. Beginning of friendship. 4. Return to Tokyo. pg.6 “His coldness was a warning to not be friends” Visited grave. 5. Narrator visits Sensei periodically. Thinks he’s lonely. Asks to visit grave with him. Rejected. 6. “I am a melancholy man, you will have to look elsewhere for consolation”-Sensei says sadly 7. Sensei feels happy from drinking alcohol. No children- “Divine right” says Sensei laughing. 8. Sensei and Okusan get into a fight. “misunderstands me”p.15 “We should …show more content…
23. Narrator works on graduation thesis. Goes to Sensei for advice. “I am not ashamed knowing less” 24. Narrator finishes his thesis. He is very happy and invites Sensei on a walk. 25. Sensei asks about family wealth. Then about Narrators fathers health. 26. “get your inheritance shit together” “tempt men, and they will change” 27. “if I had known the material hardship then, I would have listened more carefully” $=rougue 28. Narrator hates Sensei for that. Tries to humiliate him. Narrator finds out about Sensei’s problem. 29. Narrator says he benefitted from Sensei. Not a good mentor though. He values his opinions. 30. Narrator graduates. Feels that his diploma is a scrap. Don’t know where Sensei’s diploma is 31. Talks about graduation and jobs. Narrator isn’t sure of what to do in his life 32. Sensei asks his wife what she’ll do when he dies. She seems sad for a bit but then gets over it. 33. Sensei talks about his house and inheritance towards Okusan. 34. Goes shopping for souvenirs. Goes back to his hometown. He thinks about his inconsistency MY PARENTS & I 1. He begins to dislike his father’s naïve provincialism. He felt stupid to not understand why. 2. Mother was optimistic about the father. Father seems to know he will die. 3. Parents want to plan a dinner party. Narrator refuses. Compromise. Argumentive Narrator 4. Narrator writes a letter to Sensei. Father is
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