Literature Analysis #2

1. The main plot in Kafka on the Shore revolves around a boy who runs away from home in order to feel free and find his long lost sister and mother. While this happens two other stories take place, one about a man who speaks to cats and one about a teacher. Kafka takes a bus to a city in order to find a new life. On the bus he meets a woman who he is attracted to and starts a conversation with her. He asks her about his sister but is not given the response he was hoping to hear. Once reaching the city he enters a library where he befriends the person at the front desk. He tells her about his intentions and she says he could stay at a small shack up the mountains not far from where he is now. After a while of staying there he is allowed to stay at the library's guest room. Here he encounters the owner of the library who is a woman. He befriends her and starts somewhat of an attraction with her. On the first night there he witnesses a ghost an tells the library attendant about it. The books ends up with Kafka having a sexual relationship with the library owner but also the girl he met on the bus who is later revealed to be his long lost sister.  The story involving the man who speaks with cats is about him looking for a cat throughout the the story. He later finds out that cats around the neighborhood are being kidnapped and killed in order to be used for a ritual. This all ties in with Kafka in the end.

2. The main theme to this is love and human nature. The author Haruki Miramaki really explores the human nature throughout the story like sexuality, isolation, violence, and imagination. Love also plays a key point through out the story.

3. The authors tone is serious. He does shift into a happy tone in occasion but he usually stays on a serious tone to create an atmosphere to the reader.

4. 5 literary elements the author uses on the book include dialect. The dialect really demonstrates the characters intentions but also their emotions. Another technique he uses is imagery, he uses this by creating a surrealistic yet realistic environment for the reader. Another technique is tone. The tone creates the setting of mood the book is meant to be read and comprehended in. Another technique includes diction. The words he chose allowed certain sentences to flow clearly to be taken into thought rather if it was choppy.