Welcome to Week Three of the Discussion! This weeks discussion will run from Monday, March 9 to Sunday, March 15.
This week's discussion will be on figurative language and literary elements in your book. Please find an example of these in your book and POST a 10-sentence comment on it. Don't forget to comment on 5 other posts on this blog. You have all week to complete this assignment, please don't wait until the last minute.
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"Boarding a long-distance train without any luggage gave me a feeling of exhilaration. It was as if while out taking a leisurely stroll, I was suddenly like a dive-bomber caught in a space-time warp" (99).
ReplyDeleteAfter recieving his second letter from Rat (who is an unknown character at this point, old friend, one could guess.)the narrator decides to do something with himself. He hears of Rat's constant moving around, never keeping the same identity, never staying long enough to be who he really is. This feeling that the narrator gets as he decides to get on a bullet chain is envy, I think. He sees his life as complete boredom. After this revelation, he shakes things up, heading back to his hometown. In his describing things, he uses many metaphores to show the reader how he is feeling. He refers to this moment in his life as a "leisurely stroll". One can assume a leisurely stroll to be carefree...in no particular direction...and with all of the time in the world. His life wasn't going anywhere, he didn't care about anything, and quite frankly, he just didn't care about deadlines. When he recieves this letter, its as if he's a "dive-bomber caught in a space-time warp". One of the keywords i see is CAUGHT. He's caught off guard, but somehow he feels like no matter what he has a destination. His hometown. Just as if that time-warp wasn't going to stop, neither is his necessity to go home.
typo- I meant to say bullet TRAIN. :)
ReplyDeleteThat scene where he visits J's bar and the river is chock full of figuratiive language. It kind of needs to be because it is so full of stillness and silence. Some authors I feel can express pensive silence better than others. This sounds ditzy but I honestly think Ann Brashares (of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants fame) is really good at it. The similes and metaphors in A Wild Sheep Chase don't actually follow a logicalor relatable progression in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI really like that quote. I feel like it wraps up Murakami's writing really well. I agree that the word 'caught' is really important, but I don't know that he's caught off guard. It does seem like he has no destination. He's in a different environment.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Rebecca. He's caught in several ways. It’s mostly in his thoughts and lack of productive lifestyle.
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