Haruki Murakami

When I was a child, I loved reading so much that I would read anything I passed by. No warning sign, instructions, or map directions were left unread. My mother would buy books for me whenever she went to a store. My Aunt Kate gave me a collection of The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley books when I was in middle school. No library could compare to my Dollar General and hand-me-down book collection. My mother told me a story about one of the first times I ‘read’ a book. My mother used to read a…

Haruki Murakami’s novel “Norwegian wood” contains elements of violence and mental illness. The story treats mental illness as a natural part of life.In Japan,mental illness is considered to be caused by a weakness in personality rather than a biological dysfunction.This ideology stigmatizes mental health(introduce reference?).Stigmatization is identified by three factors: knowledge, attitudes, and behavior.Murakami explores the tension between these conflicting ideas though the characters in the…

According to Haruki Murakami (2016) learning another language is like becoming another person. A starting point in learning a new language is being able to start constructing our own identity. Through finding new meanings, metaphors and manners of speech. One may start to see a new identity within themselves. This online course will hopefully allow students to grow as individuals. In order to have an effective course, data must be evaluated from student feedback. Points to be discussed are the…

readers in imagining the scene and gradually understand the beauty of nature through what he saw on the beach. First of all, to help readers recognize the beauty of nature, he uses repetition in several significant point of the poem. According to Haruki Murakami, noted in brainpicking.com, a repetition is a form of words/phrases that could catch the attention of someone easily (Popova). This quote has come from an experienced Japanese writer that has sold millions copies of books. With…

I compared the book by Haruki Murakami with the book by Yoko Ogawa, to my understanding, the former one is a book of complex evil that people hold inside, while the latter one is a book of pure goodness that people express outside. In the other word, the book reveals that everyone has his/her own dilemma and dark side, but we usually choose to hide in deeply inside of our heart, bury it with our history. However, the book teaches us that humanity did not extinct, there do exist pure…

I began writing An Interview with a Trout in March, right after we finished reading One Hundred Years of Solitude. With all of the texts involved in the second half of the Haruki Murakami class, one theme that reverberated in my head was how family can come to represent latent memory and one’s cyclical history. These stories made me think about my own family history and the potential stories that could hold a prophecy on my own life. Both sides of my family had no ties to the United States…

A man by the name of Haruki Murakami once said, “No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.” It is difficult to imagine that a man that lived over twenty four centuries ago still has no parallel competitor to the amount of influence that he had. The man’s name is Plato. A student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle, he founded one of the first advanced academic institution in…

As the novelist Haruki Murakami wrote, “Now, though, I realize that all I can place in the imperfect vessel of writing are imperfect memories and imperfect thoughts” (12). A work of literature is imperfect in the sense that it is more or less related to and restricted by the social context in which it is written and is a memory-carrier of its own culture. Sophocles’ Attic tragedy Antigone carries memories of sociopolitical concerns over the future development and fertility of the city Athens.…

He has no clear goal or conflict other than he, like everyone else, has no practical conclusion as to where the elephant went. Here, the author stylistically does something that wasn’t present in the other short stories of the collection. Murakami blurs the lines between reality and the bizarre. “Looking through the vent, I had the feeling that a different, chilling kind of time was flowing through the elephant house-but nowhere else.” This makes the story appealing to both the practical…

We young folks in Cusco were very much concerned with poetry as much as Bolano’s visceral realists did in Mexico City but unlike them, Octavio Paz was not our enemy. We loved discussing the labyrinth of solitude but It was the poetry of Cesar Vallejo, Arguedas, Garcilazo that matter to us. It reflected our Andean traits. Cusquenhos are different from coastal Peruvians. We are because of our cultural traits. We are visual, silent, introverts, stoic and very much good listeners and enjoy jokes…