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The Rat Sniper Short Story Summary

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“ The Last Children of Tokyo”, by Yoko Tawada is aimed at adult readers who like realistic stories. The short story is traditional plot structure that begins when one of Japan’s oldest man had accompanied his grandson ( who is suffering from the after effects of the Hiroshima bombing) to the dentist. In addition, what makes the story realistic is that when the dentist recommends that Mumei drinks more milk, five year old Mumei replied that he is “ a bird” ( 2). This means that he prefers eating worms over milk, and that he dislikes milk so much that he is willing to eat insects than to drink milk.
“The Rat Sniper”, is a aimed at adult readers who like realistic stories with traditional plot structure. This is somewhat true because the story is aimed at a husband who finds out his wife is cheating on him in Europe, thus he seeks condolence from a female friend (2). In addition, what makes it realistic is the fact not only it happens in real life with real life emotions. The husband later gets invited to shoot rats with his female friend which he admits that” he was in love with just a …show more content…

It begins abruptly when the husband asks the wife if she was talking bad behind his back and how much she enjoys “ her boyfriends company more” than him (1). The beginning of the story portrays the main character’s directness and how he is very blunt, and in addition he does not hesitate to ask his wife’s personal details about her activities with her boyfriend. It is to be noted that when the husband found out his friend’s nickname for her husband was “Bear”, and the husband exclaimed that he associated the word bear with “a fat, slow, mostly useless human being” (5). This passage provides us more into the characters thinking and perspective of different connotation for certain words. This shows that the husband tend to be not very sensitive and blunt to his situation around

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