![]() ![]() ![]() As affective gestures established outside traditional communities of belonging, these friendships teach characters new ways of interpreting their painful past, while allowing readers to reflect on their own sense of shared responsibility. Reaching across generational shores, friendships are used in the text to bridge the gap between past and present, personal trauma and collective amnesia. ![]() The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. At the same time, the book also talks about an older man named Satoru Nakata. The even chapters tell the remarkable and deeply moving narrative of Nakata Satoru. The story in the Kafka on the Shore is about a teenager, Kafka, who runs away from home though he has no experience. Initially isolated, both characters leave Tokyo for Shikoku (the smallest of Japan’s main islands), only arriving at their destination after accepting the support of others. In conclusion, we look briefly at Murakamis Kafka on the Shore to. In the form of two parallel narratives, Kafka on the Shore juxtaposes the story of Kafka Tamura, a fifteen year-old runaway searching for his mother, with that of sixty year-old Satoru Nakata, a man who lost his memory in a strange episode during WWII. In Kafka on the Shore (2002/tr.2005), Haruki Murakami explores the ambiguities surrounding Japan’s traumatic history and its lingering impact on contemporary generations. ![]()
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