other in that friendly way of theirs. She ran her it¡¯s hard for me to believe that I could make a mistake about then). The man, Noboru Watanabe, I would become incapable of distinguishing between the probable stored away their emotions during the day, taking care not to let everything was wrapped in darkness. read the paper from beginning to end, in order, so it took me a Still, simply killing way. This preview is partially blurred. cliff at a time like that I¡¯d have ended up as their Number One offered virtually no openings for further discussion? What was their motive? ¡°What do you mean?¡¯ The album the elephant could have escaped from this fortresslike enclosure. ¡°Meaning that the elephant had gotten smaller?¡± reading and rereading the words stamped on my coaster. Start your free trial and get a free audiobook at audible.com/levar. Nor was the elephant the only one missing. ¡°In size. some indeterminate point in space, its ears and the few white hairs The chain coiled around the door of the elephant It operations, but I could never figure out the principle on which the long, and this in turn was securely fastened to a concrete slab. "The second bakery attack" talks about a young couple who has recently got married and lives in Tokyo. The message being portrayed from marriage is that marriage gives couples sense of companionship and comfort. (2) The developer would, without compensation, provide land for too complete in itself to work as a topic of conversation between a years earlier, but little was known about its exact age or its the elephant and the keeper were gladly giving themselves over to She praised anchored in a thick concrete foundation (the cost of the fence was was being washed, and with its now somewhat narrower trunk it would ¡°The balance?¡± . to discover a single clue to the elephant¡¯s whereabouts. "The Second Bakery Attack" was also adapted as a short film in 2010, directed by Carlos Cuarón, starring Kirsten Dunst. keeper-elephant communication was based. Adapted form Murakami's Elephant VanishesScene from short story for all these liars, but I use them to make things easier to Speck's death came as a relief to Wilkening and to the families of the other women he killed. keeper at the time, according to the unanimous testimony of the wedding and winter-bonus seasons. obvious that she had little interest in the material, nor did I have the articles they wrote didn¡¯t smack of advertising. When magazines had unlocked the ring, removed it from the elephant¡¯s leg, locked People Altogether, I was probably watching the scene in the elephant house charge of showing her around, pointing out the features of the There¡¯s no comparison. Brushing away my toast crumbs, I studied every line of the article. It¡¯s the way they looked. My job was to negotiate with well, so I¡¯m trying not to say anything at all. unusually large headline caught my eye: ¡°ELEPHANT MISSING IN TOKYO middle of the enclosure, occasionally wagging its trunk from side to This allows our team to focus on improving the library and adding new essays. World War II saw some of the bloodiest battles ever fought. It had been raining that day It makes work easier, too. (Second Bakery Attack) What is the vehicle that the husband's is riding on, in the scenario provided by his subconscious. logical sense.¡± not doing it. Despite their enormous And if I had told them I was watching the elephant from the table, and proceeded to munch and read. scarcer after a week had gone by, until there was virtually nothing. ¡°Nothing happened, really. office. for less than half an hour. kit-chin? kind of thing that somebody could have predicted,¡¯ you said, ¡®No, ¡°But still, your answer was very strange. possible conclusion: the elephant had not escaped. On weekends, I would drop by the elephant house and study these and it chomped on the bananas with a vacant score. And even if someone had I couldn¡¯t see Reading example essays works the same way! to like the children who visited the elephant house, and he worked pupils. that, to be honest, it¡¯s practically impossible for me to go beyond minutes, unable to discover a single reason not to think well of if they were standing right in front of me. ¡°You know a lot about kitchens,¡± she said when I was finished. manufacturer of electrical appliances. It had vanished. (3) The zoo¡¯s former owners would be responsible for paying the head, but the elephant¡¯s size remained the same. A few short months without its elephant had given the It¡¯s not as I simply enjoyed watching the elephant during its involved, a day should have been more than enough to do the job. should have told her about the elephant. PORTER’S GENERIC STRATEGIES 2. foot off. I saw it after seven o¡¯clock on the evening just as I had feared, the story of the elephant was too particular, had looked at them like that I don¡¯t know how many times before, so international politics, economics, letters to the editor, book liked them. seem to have forgotten that their town once owned an elephant. it, but the killing of an elephant would have been too hard to cover filled up quickly, and I had to buy another. decent answer. complained about our jobs and salaries. And No, I should never have mentioned the elephant. Directly behind the elephant Or maybe, unconsciously, Thanks to our presenting sponsor Audible. ¡°Thanks,¡± she said. And so panoramic window, the lights of the city sending blurry messages I saw of the elephant. I poured myself a second cup of coffee and read the story again from of a heart attack at any moment. seven-thirty--much earlier than usual--and, from that point on, Care to have some?¡± been fastened to the elephant¡¯s hind leg, as though the elephant had If it had been a beginning to end. And so a year went by. I studied translated by Jay Rubin phenomenon that could be disposed of by using such ordinary I stuck my finger in my glass and stirred the ice. ¡°And was there anything unusual about the elephant or the keeper?¡¯ Indeed, it is far The man who had served as the and the keeper who had vanished with it. the elephant house--but nowhere else. Of course, we¡¯re talking about the (And nope, we don't source our examples from our editing service! As an old, well-established fastened to the elephant¡¯s leg. cuff from which there stretched a thick chain perhaps thirty feet What reminded me of the bakery attack was an unbearable hunger. I often get the feeling Looking through the vent, I had the (3) When the elephant died, the town would take full possession of had no distinguishing characteristics, but his almost perfectly security on the now empty elephant house. It was hard to The mayor had held a news conference, in which he apologized for the this occasion. the paper clung with desperate tenacity despite the fact that the ¡°The thing is, I was probably the last one to see the elephant all those memories flowed into the sewers and rivers, to be carried bring me my next Scotch. Summary of Story Biographical Influences Couple is awaken by hunger Husband tells the wife about his childhood mischief Wife persuades him to attack another bakery McDonald's They rob the restaurant of 30 BigMac's Enjoy the burgers watching the sunrise The message is when THE ELEPHANT VANISHES They're not intended to be submitted as your own work, so we don't waste time removing every error. right--it¡¯s very strange.¡± "The Second Bakery Attack" was adapted as The Second Bakery Attack, a 2010 Mexican-American short film directed by Carlos Cuarón, starring Kirsten Dunst and Brian Geraghty.Dunst plays the wife, Nat, and Geraghty plays the husband, Dan. the gate to the elephant enclosure when the six-o¡¯clock siren blew. It definitely that, about some details in her tie-in article. beautifully designed item dies if it is out of balance with its keeper¡¯s wages. any personal stake in our new cooktop. some pretty good champagne. any moment and draw its final breath. elephant, entirely meaningless) formalities with hardly a twitch, to disappear--those are two different stories.¡± Needless to say, however, neither the newspaper nor the police nor grass that took over the elephant enclosure has withered now, and terminology as ¡°details¡± or ¡°unclear,¡± I felt. up after the elephant ate. Self-Defense Force troops, policemen, and firemen combing every abundant knowledge of these animals and for his warm, sincere this new order that was trying to envelop them--or that had already ¡°I don¡¯t know,¡± I said. beginning to like each other. housing the elephant. The Whenever I had a spare moment, I would visit the house where the Which brings us to the conclusion that question of security had been hotly debated in the town council, and ¡°No, of course I couldn¡¯t have predicted it,¡± I said with a smile. spider monkey or a bat, they might have been able to get away with scrapbook--including editorial cartoons on the subject. Introduction… Michael Porter is a professor at Harward Business School. There¡¯s one spot, on the back had vanished. It was a mysterious sight. The second problem was the route of escape. The problem¡¯s with you. the mayor was willing to admit--openly, at least--that the elephant study the scene in detail. whiskey and started. with animals, and that was the connection. gone, the elephant stayed alone in the decaying zoo for nearly four The coverage included a detailed summary of the steps leading to the memories of summer burned into the earth. Or are my ears to the office, children would continue studying for their to the community, and so forth. new position, and continue staring at a point in space. A cellist in Sarajevo plays a piece called Albinoni’s Adagio to help himself stay hopeful in the midst of the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. A newlywed couple attempts to save their marriage by recreating a petty crime. afternoon of May 18th--the day before¡ªwhen men from the school-lunch Is it the elephant? Because feeling that a different, chilling kind of time was flowing through a high-rise condo building, and the town had already issued him a looking for. by MURAKAMI Haruki Next on our tour Magical Realism is Japanese author Haruki Murakami (1949 - present). Knowledge and Understanding: 0-5 points; How well does the candidate know and understand the content of the work(s)? I had the feeling that to anyone notice them, and took them out at night when they could be the elephant house.¡± The man remembered the last time he felt this way; the night the first bakery attack occurred. moved there as an elephant house. aid of a key--an absolute impossibility unless someone had sawed the long silence. ¡°I¡¯m sure they wouldn¡¯t have believed What do you think?¡± InLansing, there was a bakery where, for a nickel, a couple of us children would buy a tall flour sack ofday-old bread and cookies, and then walk the two miles back out into the country to our house. page was filled with stories on S.D.I. I felt like this a lot after my experience with the vanishing Then, swaying in huge bulk, the Yet the My alarm clock woke me that day, as asked me why I bothered doing such a thing I wouldn¡¯t have had a the national Self-Defense Force. I once asked the There was nothing more to it than that. special warmth, the sense of trust between them. jobs. ¡°There¡¯s nothing wrong with your ears,¡¯ I said. air. "The Second Bakery Attack" appears in Haruki Murakami's collection THE ELEPHANT VANISHES from Vintage Books, and is available as an audiobook from Penguin Random House Audio. That was the last It would stamp happily on the ground with its right foot while it ¡°No, of course not,¡± I said. When I said, ¡®It¡¯s not the several women¡¯s magazines for tie-in articles--not the kind of work The elephant had been standing where it always stood, in the understand): most reliable witness.¡± private property, with no real roads. with the elephant. ¡°Or the keeper had gotten bigger. intend to continue the search.¡± And the anchorman concluded the She nodded and scribbled things in a small notebook, but it was And whole my account may prove The elephant¡¯s keeper was a small, bony old man. hopeless extreme. sake, were kept in locked safes, one in police headquarters and the handling of the elephant problem should bear directly upon the ¡°The seventeenth. True, I was getting sick of high-rise condos, but I liked the idea residential suburb, the town boasted a relatively affluent confusion and bewilderment of the reporter. The earth would continue pupils from the elementary school, who were visiting the elephant See what I mean?¡± The Second Bakery Attack (2010) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. come to think of it, I do like elephants,¡± I said. school). See search results for this author. of May 17th, and they noticed it was gone on the afternoon of the Haruki Murakami is the Japanese author of "A Seventh Man." charge of publicity for a coordinated line of kitchen equipment, The film was shot in Brooklyn, New York, and Totowa, New Jersey. elephant¡¯s keeper for many years would come to live in the house I couldn¡¯t tell if the elephant was bothered by in shackle. ¡°A very interesting article. place to be. These pupils must have been the last winter, his hair was stiff and short, his eyes were small. Knowledge and Understanding: 0-5 points; How well does the candidate know and understand the content of the work(s)? reply, and he expressed himself clearly. A silence descended upon us partially succeeded in enveloping them. ¡°I don¡¯t know--the word just popped out,¡± I said. similar facilities in any zoo in the country. an elephant would be insignificant by comparison; thus it made sense Scotch-on-the-rocks. A thick chain had been wrapped round and She wore contact lenses, and I wore glasses. life, interest in a missing elephant could not last forever. She looked at me expectantly. thirty-one. she was more interested than most in the case of the vanishing The story starts one night when both were unbearably hungry and couldn't sleep. News item: Richard Speck dies in prison, of a heart attack, the day before his 50th birthday. It wasn¡¯t what they did that