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Kafka on the Shore Kafka Tamura, who just turned fifteen, runs away from home to get away from curse from his dad, Koich Tamura. The curse was laid on Kafka after his mother and sister left home.
Koich kept telling Kafka that he is going to kill his father and sleep with his mother and sister since Kafka was little. Koich must’ve been psychopathic father for telling his own son such things like that. There wasn’t specific reason why two of them left home, but I think they left because of Koich. Kafka decided to go to Shikoku in Takamatsu, which no one in his relative are living. He met Sakura, who’s age of 21, on the bus. After Kafka get out of the bus he get some noodle and find a library. He found many information about library before
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He negotiates about room price, then goes to the gym to work out. He must be diligent fifteen years old boy. After he works out, he goes to the Komura Memorial Library, the same one as yesterday. He eats lunch at balcony of library, since library did not allow eating food inside. Kafka does same thing for eight days. But on eighth day something weird happens. Kafka get up in the middle of lots, cannot see anything, too dark. He spotted his backpack, and grab it and slung it over his shoulder. He lost his baseball cab. He found near public rest room, he goes in and stand in front of mirror and found blood stain on his shirts. He takes it off and washes it. Worried. He takes puts it in zip lock bag. He calls Sakura, only one he knows in Shikoku. He go to her apartment, and tell her everything that he know also that he is fifteen years old runaway from Tokyo. He sleep at her …show more content…
The old man, who has name of Nakata, was not able to read or write, but able to converse with others, also with cats. He was one of the best cat finder that you can find in Tokyo. He gets subsidy from governor and lives in little apartment that was originally belonged to his relative. Nakata talks with cat about where Goma is. While he was talking with the cats around his apartment, he hears somebody calling him. Another little cat, she said that he must been napped by cat collector. She said that cat collector does all the weird things. And that cat collector is wearing weird hat and boots. She said that he often can be seen at the empty lot. So Nakata decided to stay there. Which I think would be really boring work, and might even be

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