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Mularakami Figurative Language
Murakami explores the theme of fear and how it can impact someone's life. His use of figurative language helps a reader see what it’s like to be overwhelmed with fear and have it take control of you without warning. In the text, the narrator states how seeing the wave getting closer and closer to shore caused him to run away and also be terrified at the same time. The narrator was able to save himself, as all that adrenaline was coursing through him because of fear, although he saved himself he couldn't save K because he was afraid that the wave would have taken both of them. Evidence from the text, “ I found myself running the other way - running full speed toward the dyke, alone.” From this evidence we can conclude that the narrator was indeed
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