After The Quake By Haruki Murakami Analysis

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The story is set at Shinjuku ward of Tokyo metropolis. Katagiri works at the Shinjuku branch of the Tokyo Security Trust Bank and has been collecting loans from the Kabikicho district. The Shinjuku ward of Tokyo is a major business and administrative center of japan making it a place full of sky scrapers and bustling crowds of office workers. The kabukicho district is the entertainment center of this ward, aside from all the shops in this place, it is also notable for its population of gangsters and mafia, making the streets dangerous for a loan collector. Theme Super frog saves Tokyo is one of the six short stories published by Haruki murakami in the book entitled “after the quake” back in 2000. The stories bring forth a common theme …show more content…

This makes us accept what is real for katagiri and what is not even though we cannot confirm reality through another character. This flawlessly redirects our attention to what the author wants us to see, katagiri and his struggle to separate reality and imagination and how he somehow change his personal description of reality. For katagiri what could be considered real is something that makes results. Katagiri’s mindset reminded me of a monologue from a Lady Gaga music video. Marry the night which is her fifth single from her Born this Way album features the monologue at the beginning. When I look back on my life, it's not that I don't want to see things exactly as they happened; it's just that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way. And truthfully the lie of it all is much more honest because I invented it. Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer. Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics, they can be lost forever. It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again. It's not that I've been dishonest; it's just that I loathe

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