As discussed in class, we looked into Tolkien's mind to observe his ideas on how fantasy stories should function in order to create a successful “world” for a reader to dive into. In an essay “On Fairy Stories,” written by Tolkien, he describes to us what he believes makes a “fairy story,” a “fairy story.” One of these rules he describes is Escape and the ways a story can connect, not only within itself but, with the reader in order to create a total immersion between the reader and book. When I had read Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World by Haruki Murakami, it was clear to me that this was not a traditional “fairy story,” or as one that Tolkien would describe. This book written by Haruki Murakami does not create the feeling of
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In the first chapter the audience is introduced to an unnamed narrator who tells us he’s on his way for a job and that he's currently in an elevator in order to get to the meeting place. The details given to the readers are very descriptive and allow them to clearly picture the setting where this narrator is currently in; all things that would give a sense of immersion. While the audience is given a clear image of the setting the information given about the narrator is very limited in that we are only given a gender and few facts about his mental capability. After more information is gained throughout the first chapter and a sense of escape starts to cloak the audience. Murakami quickly tears this blanket off the readers as chapter two not only places us in a new scene completely different from where chapter 1 ended, but in a new world with a new narrator, or so the audience is lead to believe. During the first exposure to chapter 2 the audience is usually lead to believe that they may have misread something from chapter 1, but instead only to discover that this is the start of the book The End of the World. Murakami has structured this book so that all the odd …show more content…
Murakami’s text are amidst many psychological tricks, which isn’t surprising as the whole story revolves around the mind and subconsciousness. In terms of psychology, someone's name gives a person credibility and creates a connection between two people, this also enables someone to view back on a person's previous actions and more clearly evaluate them if we are given a name to make these connections to. This is why authors are able to bring forth feelings in the audience with the mentioning of a name because people are able to connect past actions with the name given. Murakami’s goal is not to create this effect with his protagonists. By giving us nameless characters the audience can not be immersed with them, causing the actions of these narrators to not pick up connotation but to leave these actions just as actions. The reason to leave this disconnection between the reader and the narrators is to create a non biased focus on these actions in order to be able to bridge these behaviors between the stories Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World. Each narrator is an equal figure in the eyes of the reader which causes their activities to appear more clearly as parallels between worlds and in order aid the ongoing question of “who’s who?” For example both characters have relations with
In the first chapter the audience is introduced to an unnamed narrator who tells us he’s on his way for a job and that he's currently in an elevator in order to get to the meeting place. The details given to the readers are very descriptive and allow them to clearly picture the setting where this narrator is currently in; all things that would give a sense of immersion. While the audience is given a clear image of the setting the information given about the narrator is very limited in that we are only given a gender and few facts about his mental capability. After more information is gained throughout the first chapter and a sense of escape starts to cloak the audience. Murakami quickly tears this blanket off the readers as chapter two not only places us in a new scene completely different from where chapter 1 ended, but in a new world with a new narrator, or so the audience is lead to believe. During the first exposure to chapter 2 the audience is usually lead to believe that they may have misread something from chapter 1, but instead only to discover that this is the start of the book The End of the World. Murakami has structured this book so that all the odd …show more content…
Murakami’s text are amidst many psychological tricks, which isn’t surprising as the whole story revolves around the mind and subconsciousness. In terms of psychology, someone's name gives a person credibility and creates a connection between two people, this also enables someone to view back on a person's previous actions and more clearly evaluate them if we are given a name to make these connections to. This is why authors are able to bring forth feelings in the audience with the mentioning of a name because people are able to connect past actions with the name given. Murakami’s goal is not to create this effect with his protagonists. By giving us nameless characters the audience can not be immersed with them, causing the actions of these narrators to not pick up connotation but to leave these actions just as actions. The reason to leave this disconnection between the reader and the narrators is to create a non biased focus on these actions in order to be able to bridge these behaviors between the stories Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World. Each narrator is an equal figure in the eyes of the reader which causes their activities to appear more clearly as parallels between worlds and in order aid the ongoing question of “who’s who?” For example both characters have relations with