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Introduction
Eye of the Storm
Typhoon Hitting the Shore
Aftermath of Storm
Conclusion
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Who is the author of this short story?
Haruki Murakami
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What occured throughout the town when news spoke of a typhoon approaching?
School was dismissed and all the shops were closed and shuttered tight.
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Why didn't the seventh man rescue K from the wave?
He was too overwhelmed in fear
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What appeared in the seventh man's dreams after the tragic accident?
He is swimming in the water and K pulls him under, seeing a huge grin on his face
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What did the seventh man discover in his box of old childhood things?
A bundle of pictures that K had painted for him
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What is the name of the seventh man's best friend?
K
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What did the seventh man's father say when he asked if it was okay for him to go outside?
"As long as you don't go far, but as soon as the wind begins to pick up even a little bit, hurry back home right away."
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What did the seventh man see in the wave as it hung above him?
He saw the shape of K
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At the end of the year following the death of K, what did the seventh man request for himself?
To leave town and move somewhere else immediatly
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What did the seventh man realized after analyzing K's paintings?
That he may have misinterpreted the entire event
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When explaining of the seventh man's childhood, how old did he state he was?
10 years old
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How far was the beach from the seventh man's house?
A 200 meter walk
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What did the seventh man recall K doing when inside the wave?
He was laughing at him
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What did the seventh man avoid most of his life?
The sea, pools, rivers, etc
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What did the seventh man decide that he needed to do after studying the paintings K made for him?
Go back to that town immediatly
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What was K extraordinaryily good at?
Drawing pictures
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Why didn't K hear what the seventh man said when he told him they needed to leave the beach and head home?
K was too absorbed in what he had discovered on the shore
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What happened to K's corpse?
It was never recovered
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Why did the seventh man never marry?
He didn't want to be continually waking up whoever was sleeping next to him with his yelling from nightmares of K.
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What did the seventh man notice as he stared out and studied the beach where K died?
The deep darkness within him was extinguished
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What did the seventh man find himself doing for K before and after school?
Protecting him
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What did the seventh man's mom do in preparation for the storm?

Spent the day in the kitchen cooking emergency provisions.

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What happened to the seventh man after he saw K in the wave?
He lost consciousness
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Where did the seventh man end up moving to after his parents agreed to let him leave?
Nagano Prefecture, his father's family home
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What changed after the seventh man left the beach?
He didn't have a single bad dream again