Analyzing The Theme Of 'A Sense Of Loss In Murakami's'

The reason that the wife became upset is that she was not in search of a solution to her problem but she was in search of support.

In the story “The Hunger of Memory” Richard Rodriguez uses allusion, anaphora, repetition, diction, tone and syntax to express how education had changed his life.

The Metamorphosis, written by Franz Kafka, is a cultivating story about how the life of Gregor Samsa and his family drastically changes. This change causes Gregor’s father and sister to betray him and even Gregor to betray himself. This all starts when one morning Gregor wakes up as a giant bug. This occurrence does not allow Gregor to work anymore and provide for his family. As the novel goes on his sister is the only one to take care of him but this takes a toll on Gregor and the rest of his family. Soon his family is in a financial crisis causing each member of the family to start working. They even had to start renting out a room in their apartment just to make ends meet. With all of these events happening to the family it causes many

Imagine living in a country that you truly love and then being discriminated and questioned just because of your race. How insulted would you feel if your own country’s government interrogated and accused you of being disloyal? Nowadays, loyalty is an important quality that everyone wants to possess, so many people do whatever is possible in order to prove themselves. Loyalty shows a lot about a person’s character and their motives; it is truly a reflection of what type of person we are. In Farewell to Manzanar written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston she talks about the experience that she had while living in an internment camp and how it really affected her and the way her family lived. The internment camp caused many problems for the Wakatsuki

nonchalant manner about the issue of his wife’s death is also seen through his diction. He

It was not really anything of a separation, yet he was surprised to find that is seemed to him a grave one perhaps because his business was grave, or because of the solemn hour. He saw this in her face as well, and almost wished they had waked the children after all" (44).

The loss of a family member is always hard to deal with and it affects everyone differently. Some people are open about their feelings and others bottle them up. In terms of relationships within a family, usually the closest is between the parent and child. When this relationship is cut short or is nonexistent because of a loss it can be especially devastating. The loss of a family member does not always refer to an actual physical loss, but can also refer to an emotional distance put between two people. In “The Shawl” by Louise Erdrich, there is an example of a physical loss and its effects on the family, while in “Bone Black” by Bell Hooks the loss shown is of the emotional kind and it's aftermath. It is interesting to view these stories

Upon hearing the death of her husband's, Mrs. Mallard went through many different emotions. The first emotion is grief, the author tried to compare Mrs. Mallard to other women that would've responded to the news of their husbands death with "paralyzed inability" ( "she

In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Marquez employs the motif of flowers within the novel to illustrate the role of women within a Latin American society; the cultural and symbolic implications of this associate flowers with purity, victimization, gender barriers, and deceit. In doing so, Marquez creates a microcosm of Latin America, exposing the core of Columbian culture and society with all its aspects such as ethnicity, and social norms and conventions that led to a series of insecurities and poverty in the community, and its affect on the role of women. The cultural context of this novel must first be considered before examining the symbolic importance of flowers.

In his memoir “What I talk About when I talk about Running” Haruki Murakami writes about his love for writing and how it lead him to start running so he could keep writing. David Foster Wallace in his commencement speech “This is water” gives a speech to a graduating class about the struggles they will face in their future. Both focus on training, they agree that age cannot be controlled, on being self-centered, and on the natural default-settings of people. They both argue that this are things that can be changed and can improve your life. Both focus on training.

Through his manipulation of conventional conceptions of different realities and dreams, Murakami establishes a case for Tsukuru’s guilt. He did not rape and murder Shiro in a physical sense, yet he acknowledges responsibility and guilt on a mental and emotional level. Murakami alludes to this sense of responsibility through a parallelism between Shiro’s accusations towards Tsukuru and his own negative sense of self. Tsukuru demonstrates a pervasive idea that he has evil rooted within him. From the beginning of the novel, he feels that “something must be fundamentally wrong with [him]” (Murakami 62). Murakami utilizes repeated diction to form this parallelism between Tsukuru and Shiro. When Shiro first shares that Tsukuru allegedly raped her,

In the novel, “The Songs of Distant Earth” by Arthur C. Clarke, there are many details that predictions and inferences can be derived from. One inferences that can be made is that the character Moses Kaldor greatly misses his wife after he left her to depart from Earth. This can be shown through his emotions and words when talking to the character Mirissa. Clarke writes, “‘Yet we never really believed that End would be in our time — who could! And if anyone had ever told me that I should leave Earth and everything I’ve loved…’ A spasm of emotion crossed his face, and Mirissa waited in sympathetic silences until he had regained his composure.” (Clarke 149-150). When he is recalling when he left Earth to Mirissa, he begins to get emotional and

Since the Age of Enlightenment, the ideas of identity and consciousness have been explored by philosophers, psychologists, writers, and more. Since then, the definition of what identity is has changed and evolved, leaving the true, overarching definition unknown. In his novel Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Japanese author Haruki Murakami explores the ideas of identity and the consciousness through ideas brought up by postmodernist philosophers and psychologists such as Karl Marx, C.G. Jung, and Sigmund Freud and uses them to create characterization,

The quote shows that even though he was upset, he couldn’t be cruel to his wife and didn’t want to upset her.

“After the Quake” is a collection of imaginary short stories written by Haruki Murakami which became well known after his emotional impact of the Kobe earthquake. The protagonist in “UFO in Kushiro” is Komura, a Japanese salesman, who practically lives as an average person nowadays. However, five days after the earthquake, Komura’s perfect life falls apart when he finds a letter from his wife, saying that she is gone forever. Trying to get use to the thought, Komura takes a break from his work and goes on a journey to deliver a small box to another part of the country. Haruki Murakami presents the story with an illustration of various senses. A Visual image is one of the author’s senses in the story that helps readers to imagine a picture