1. The seventh man
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2. characters
 There are only a few characters that are introduced by Haruki Murakami in the short story "The Seventh Man", including K, K's parent's, the seventh man's parents, the group of people in the house, K's dog, and of course, the seventh man himself, but out of all of these characters, only the seventh man is dynamic and round.

3. mood
 In the short story "The Seventh Man" by Haruki Murakami, the mood plays a tremendously important role in. The seventh man tells his story just like any other storyteller would, except that there was a deep grief and sadness that was constantly there. He tells of a tragedy and terribly hard times that he had to go through, and because of that, no humor lies in the story. The tone is serious, and never does it once joke or become lighter. The story is recounted on a gloomy night, which further adds to its effect of a sad, somber telling. 

4. Summary and plot
   The short story “The Seventh Man”, written by Haruki Murakami, is primarily consisted of a flashback into a man’s childhood, which then continues into a retelling of the man’s life until the present. The story begins with a group of men sitting in a house, listening to the seventh man, who never once mentions his name in the story, as he recounts the story of his life. He starts from his childhood, and introduces his childhood best friend, whom he anonymously calls “K.” He describes him and in his depictions, explains how important K. was and how much he meant to him.    

5.  Following the exposition, the author moves onto the complications of the story, which starts with a violent typhoon. During the eye of the typhoon, the main character and K. ventures to the beach. There was an element of foreshadowing as suspend builds and the main character realizes that the water is coming and retreating abnormally, and that his intuition is telling him to run as fast as possible away from the beach. In his fear, he saved himself first and didn’t realize that K. had no idea of the imminent danger. The first climax comes as K. realizes, too late, that a tsunami is about to swallow him, and tension escalates when the second wave of the tsunami rushes forth and the main character sees K. in the wave, reaching for him and grinning from ear to ear.    

6.  Following the tragedy, the main character is emotionally shaken, and never once forgets the incident because he has recurrent nightmares about K. and the ocean. Neither does he forgive himself for only saving himself. It follows him even when he moves out of town after the tragedy and seeps into his adult life, and for this reason he did not marry or ever go near the ocean, deep lakes, or deep rivers. His internal conflict troubles him for many, many years of his life. Forty years later, he gets hold of several paintings K. made when he was a child, and as he studies each painting, he realizes that he has to return to the town and to the sea that took K.’s life.      

7. As part of the resolution of the story, an emotional tension builds when he approaches the sea, and reaches a small climax as he, for the first time in forty years, lets the wave wash onto his foot, and then collapses into the water. The scene returns to the group of men huddled together at the house, and the story draws to a close with the seventh man advising everyone to face their fears to keep them from stealing something precious away from them. 

8. setting
 The story is set in a small house late into a stormy night, which is where the seventh man tells his story. Most of the story, which is the childhood of the seventh man, takes around the 1930's and is set in a small town by the ocean in what the author calls the "Province of S." in Japan. The beach in the town is lined with a big concrete dyke, and had steps that lead to the water and the white sand. 

9. Theme
In the short story "The Seventh Man" written by Haruki Murakami, the main character, the seventh man, exclusively recounts his experience in the form of a flashback. As the story unfolds and the seventh man comes to peace with his constant blame and grief and also eliminates his fear of the ocean, we see that the best way to deal with fear is to face it rather than turn our backs on it and let it slowly overtake us.