Novel by Haruki Murakami Essay

The short story On Seeing the 100% Perfect daughter One Beautiful April Morning by Haruki Murakami connects with the reader through the idea that you can encounter true love by chance. Unfortunately, that chance can make water away from you without any real action from yourself. The story is set in Tokyo in 1981 on what is described as a beautiful April morning. It sounds give care a regular day, what made it beautiful for the main character was that he saw the girlfriend that was 100% perfect girl for him. The methods of fiction help us better understand and connect to stories. The narration is done in the first and third person points of view. The first person point of view inserts the reader into the situation, do the story very personal. The third person narrative gives a different, larger perspective on the story and gives us more of an insight into the concept of chance.From a characterization stand point the main character is portrayed as a regular person and really only encounters a regular girl save in his eyes, she is really more like a girl from another world. There is one other person in the story but only provides a little bit of dialogue and is not developed at all. The third person narrative develops the two different main characters in ways first person does not. The overall tone of the story is somber. The idea of once having your true love so close then letting sight run its course only to never feel the same way again is depressing As a whole, this story connects the reader to an event that numerous have probably encountered in their life seeing the perfect person, just for a second but not taking action. We go on with our lives and theorize nothing of it but this story delves a bit deeper into a possible scenario connecting the two people. In the end however, the characters still lose each other.