Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood is a nostalgic novel imbued by death, suicide and sexuality. Murakami describes a Japanese youth beset by doubts, embedded in the Spleen and surrounding by dreams. The protagonist and narrator, Watanabe, is remembering his past as a university student, while in a plane bound to Hamburg. All his memories appear because of the song during the landing, Norwegian Wood by The Beatles. The song brings him back twenty years earlier, during the Sixties in the middle of the Japanese student

overlook these references as unimportant character traits it becomes apparent as the novel continues that music is purposely bound to this novel for a distinctive purpose. In the novel Norwegian Wood by Haruki Marakami music is used to mirror characters, foreshadow, and be used as dramatic irony. “Norwegian Wood” is not only the title of Haruki Murakami’s novel but it is also the first Beatles song we hear in the book. The song immediately becomes a important and integral part of the story because

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