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The setting is some sort of therapy session perhaps one where "survivors" tell their stories. The seventh man of the title tells his story within this minimal framing. He recounts a childood experience, the loss of his best friend K, and his own survival, during a typhoon and tsunami when he was 10 years old.
America passed the intolerable acts after the Boston Tea Party, where colonists dressed as indians and threw tea overboard England's ships, because we were sick of the taxation. The intolerable Acts were a set of laws limiting what Britain could do.
<h2>Not the answer: </h2><h3> I don't know, maybe ask someone else.</h3>
<span>The people were unfriendly and suspected anything that entered their territory to be an enemy.</span>
