Freedom: an escape that allows the body, mind, and spirit to escape from whatever chains might constrain it. Although escape might be necessary in case of physical harm or abuse, allowing a person to relieve the stress of living with their abuser making them temporarily feel like they are free and in control of their own fate, choices, and destiny, it isn’t what brings peace. However, even if there’s a physical escape, the psychological effects and worry will follow if the problems are not given some kind closure. Closure becomes necessary, as without it, problems become a heavy burden on body, spirit, and mind causing a long-lasting anguish and thus making the mind develop a wall around itself to dull any pain or trauma. That wall may even
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However, not only do those walls keep us safe, but they also keep people from achieving true freedom. Hiding behind those walls only makes the problems wait to engulf the mind again once it comes back to reality again. In the beginning, Kafka refuses to make any kind of decisions that are too hard for him and instead relies on the boy named Crow to talk or decide for him. When he finally decides to speak to Miss Saeki about his prediction of her being his mother and the curse he says, “First I look for the boy named Crow, but he’s nowhere to be found. I’m left to choose on my own, and that takes time” (Murakami 249). The boy named Crow does not really take over him, but instead it is Kafka who allows him to when things are difficult and his words are not enough or not right to explain the subject. As he goes on, he tries to rely less on Crow and slowly forgets about him entirely. Ignoring that alter ego he had with him with so long, allows him to earn some kind of mental peace since he can finally deal with problems himself. Crow cannot help, and he does not help, allowing Kafka to finally find true freedom after he resolves his problems himself rather than to have someone do it for …show more content…
Running from problems gives the distance to relieve stress, but only temporarily until the effects of the experience return. Reaching some kind of resolution, be it between two people or within oneself is necessary to actually escape problems rather than running from them. Escaping from a problem can be constant and elaborate, allowing little bouts of peace and fake freedom, but it is not permanent. Freedom is relaxing and not having to stress about problems sneaking back into life without our knowledge or consent. So no matter how often escape continues on, it cannot be defined as freedom until whatever is being escaped from is resolved. Kafka ran from home and attempted to ignore and forget his father, the curse, and the wonder of who his mother and sister were only to resolve all of those problems later head on. It was never the distance from his father or meeting his mother and sister or making the curse true that allowed him to have that kind of tranquility. What allowed him to be free of those problems was being able to get rid of those problems by his own will rather than to rely on the boy named Crow like he always used to. Escape can be physical, spiritual, and mental, but it is only the mental aspect of escape that allows freedom to become absolutely real, rather than a free body and an imprisoned mind or a free mind with a jailed
However, not only do those walls keep us safe, but they also keep people from achieving true freedom. Hiding behind those walls only makes the problems wait to engulf the mind again once it comes back to reality again. In the beginning, Kafka refuses to make any kind of decisions that are too hard for him and instead relies on the boy named Crow to talk or decide for him. When he finally decides to speak to Miss Saeki about his prediction of her being his mother and the curse he says, “First I look for the boy named Crow, but he’s nowhere to be found. I’m left to choose on my own, and that takes time” (Murakami 249). The boy named Crow does not really take over him, but instead it is Kafka who allows him to when things are difficult and his words are not enough or not right to explain the subject. As he goes on, he tries to rely less on Crow and slowly forgets about him entirely. Ignoring that alter ego he had with him with so long, allows him to earn some kind of mental peace since he can finally deal with problems himself. Crow cannot help, and he does not help, allowing Kafka to finally find true freedom after he resolves his problems himself rather than to have someone do it for …show more content…
Running from problems gives the distance to relieve stress, but only temporarily until the effects of the experience return. Reaching some kind of resolution, be it between two people or within oneself is necessary to actually escape problems rather than running from them. Escaping from a problem can be constant and elaborate, allowing little bouts of peace and fake freedom, but it is not permanent. Freedom is relaxing and not having to stress about problems sneaking back into life without our knowledge or consent. So no matter how often escape continues on, it cannot be defined as freedom until whatever is being escaped from is resolved. Kafka ran from home and attempted to ignore and forget his father, the curse, and the wonder of who his mother and sister were only to resolve all of those problems later head on. It was never the distance from his father or meeting his mother and sister or making the curse true that allowed him to have that kind of tranquility. What allowed him to be free of those problems was being able to get rid of those problems by his own will rather than to rely on the boy named Crow like he always used to. Escape can be physical, spiritual, and mental, but it is only the mental aspect of escape that allows freedom to become absolutely real, rather than a free body and an imprisoned mind or a free mind with a jailed