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A Wild Sheep Chase: Most Courteous Of Drunks By Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase is a story about a man who’s going through a rough patch in his life and how he’s trying to make his life better. I believe this story is told in a first person narration. I believe the narrator is trustworthily because I think it is told in the first person. Murakami tells this story because I think that he wants to get his points across about life very clearly throughout this novel. This novel starts out with some very interesting conversation. “Within the bounds of that sixteen-step world, I bear the title of “Most Courteous of Drunks.” A simple achievement. One has only to accept the fact of being drunk at face value”(Murakami 15). I could only conclude one thing from ready this part, that the narrator is honest and trustworthily. No one would ever call himself or herself drunks even if they were drunks. That quote was one of many that helped me come to my …show more content…
“The details were drawn with great care. Moreover, the sheep in the photograph and the sheep in the drawing were without a doubt the same sheep”(Murakami 132). I found this part to show how you can trust the narrator. Someone who wasn’t there wouldn’t know all the details about the picture that the man showed him. The narrator goes into great detail the lengths that he goes to find the sheep in the picture. This is why I found this part to be a very important part in the novel. A Wild Sheep Chase is a very interesting story that keeps you intrigued throughout the first part of it so far. As my thoughts stated above I think this story was written in a first person narration. I also think that the narrator is a trustworthy person on how munches detail that he goes into through the story. The author also uses this type of writing to help its readers understand the thoughts of its characters and understand the meanings of the novel. This is why I think Haruki Murakami tells this story in the way he

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