The hunger artist had initially linked

Running head: ENGLISH WRITING
ENGLISH WRITING
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1ENGLISH WRITING
1. The narrator of the novel “A Wild Sheep Chase”, by Haruki Murakami is the protagonist
of the entire novel, where he is seen to be dealing with the symbolism of chasing the wild
sheep. This can be related to the human nature on a whole. He had been seen reading a
story of the history of the town of Junitaki in Chapter 29 of the book. The book that he
reads talks of the theme of settlement. The eighteen people who were the original settlers
of the town had decided to move out of their town due to their debt (Vear). Thus they had
felt the need to move away and settle somewhere else. They had been travelling since
days and finally the farmers were bound to accept the unsettled area as their own place,
where they had ended up to. The narrator along with his partner had also been travelling
to the north of Japan and in this manner, the story within a story actually defines the
settlement pattern of the narrator. The narrator along with his partner had been travelling
in the quest of their sheep and finally he realized that he had been searching for the
unusual characters (Eguchi). The old farmers of the story of the “Authoritative history of
Junitaki township” also had been depicting and representing a story of settlement of the
narrator throughout the story. Thus there had been a clear relation between the narrator
and the man in the story that he had been reading.
2. The audience and the public at the end of the novel has a different opinion of the hunger
artist because although the artist thinks that it is easy to fast and that his performance is
based on the physical hunger, he is unable to struggle without the spiritual nourishment
(Dash). This remains out of his reach and finally he dies out of nothing.. His character
actually helps the people to get out of their idea about the hunger artist. The basic interest
of the hunger artist as his name literally depicts is to stay hungry and not care for the
craving of food. The idea of the hunger artist and his attitude had been that he should