"In a grove" by Ryonosuke Akutagawa

[writer_craft]

I'm writing an analysis paper for this short story by Akutagawa-sensei. Now I've read this back in high school and I understood that the characters of the samurai, his wife and the bandit each portray the different codes of honor in Japanese society. So our prof asked us to list the testimonies by all the characters in the story and pretend that we

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[wicked_seraph]

I downloaded the document - just, wow. I don't think I've read something quite like this before. It's wonderful, and I'm very glad to have read it, and for you mentioning it so praisingly to us :]

As for the verdict: I'm still sorting this all out myself; you make several valid points! Your grammar was great, by the way - I didn't find any errors, and if there ARE any, they were minute at the very worst.

[writer_craft]

Thanks for reading it! <3 And I'm glad you liked the story. And I also provided a background on the author and the modernism movement XD

And thank you for also reading my verdict and appreciating what I've come up with. Hopefully I can impress my professor with it. :P Oh, you should also watch the movie adaptation because in that story, the director has an interpretation for the ending. I'll give you an excerpt of my movie analysis about that (spoiler alert~) In the movie storyline, the characters of the woodcutter and the priest were used to tell the accounts of the three suspects. And there's a commoner there with them who represents the audience.

The most prominent feature of the film is Kurosawa-sensei’s additional scene that is not found in the original story. Here he interprets the moral detoriation of the bandit, the samurai and his wife. While Akutagawa-sensei leaves the interpretation of events to the reader, the movie advocates the humiliating effects of the characters’ deceit that they were put through because of their