Confession By Kanae Minato

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Revenge, the act of inflicting hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong suffering at their hands. In the novel Confession by Kanae Minato, a school teacher Moriguchi reveals to the class that her daughter Manami was murdered by her two students. After Moriguchi resigning speech, her revenge start, where the students lives starts to change, due to the fact that their classmates understood who the murderers were. The lives of the main characters are directly impacted by the murder of Manami. Naoki, one of the murderers that killed Manami, had turned insane to where he killed his own mother. After Moriguchi left the school, a new school year starts. Throughout the year the homeroom teacher, Mr.Terada and class president, Mizuki visits …show more content…

“Moriguchi or Terada or Mizuki… I’m so frightened I can’t do anything. They all want to kill me” (Kanae,167). Naoki involving in the murder of Manami had made him sink into fear. It emphasizes how he not able to bear what he has done and is scared about the public opinion. His guilt has caused him to suspect everyone around him that they will punish him for what he did. It relates to how he is suffering with insanity, and had lost his morals. Also, through Naoki’s new life as an insider, he does not take showers or cleaning himself for months. Therefore his mother was worried and cuts his hair and cleans him while he was sleeping. Once he wakes up, he reacts, “ My Life! Life! Life… I can’t breathe… Death, death, death,... I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die… Help me! Somebody!... I was still breathing… I was alive. Or was I?” (Minato,168-169). Naoki’s role in the killing Manami has lea Moriguchi to take revenge and infected him with AIDs. Therefore, he is terrified of himself for his death caused by …show more content…

Throughout the book, Shuuya does not care about anyone around him or himself. The only motive for his life was his mother, which is why he killed Manami. ”She was dead! My plan was a success. My mother would come now… we’d never have to be apart again”(Minato,203). This emphasis how Shuuya’s vision of the world has been just his mother. The only things he cared about was nothing but his attention for his mother who had left him. This was his motive in killing Manami so that he can get his own revenge on his mother for leaving him, but getting back together and gain her love again. By the end of the novel he plans to do something bigger since his murder of Manami did not get his mother’s attention. Shuuya plans to commit suicide, along with his school by using a bomb he has created on the last day of school. However, Mrs. Moriguchi had removed the bomb and set it in his mother’s working office, where Shuuya ends up setting the bomb off, killing his mother. Moriguchi tells him, “Your bomb, detonated by your own hand. Funny-i’ve finally had my fill of revenge now… started you out on the road to your own recovery”(Minato,234). Shuuya’s lack of thought of human life has come back at him from Moriguchi revenge on him. Him murdering her daughter has lead her to take revenge on him. This revenge has lead him to realize what he has been

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