Ozeki Essay

Ozeki believes that humans tend to preserves experience when they realize how short life is. This idea is seen in the novel with the connection of Ruth to Nao’s life which is living in multiple realities along with the ideology that one is only responsible for creating self. Living in multiple reality in scientific term is called Quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is the idea that particle can be in two or more places at once. When Nao decides that she wants to commit suicide, she starts to focus on the things she would like to do before her time is up. This realization leads to her writing the story about 104 year old Jiko and she wants to write everything in great details. Nao writes, “There’s nothing like realizing that you don’t have …show more content…
While her consciousness ideology helps her preserve environmental experience, Internet helps her preserve the sour and bad memories which help her identify her true self and how fake the people are. Haruki #1 connects religion and science together to show how each experience is different and can be stored in the memory forever. He says, “I have vowed to sit zazen and study my thoughts and feelings meticulously, the way a scientist would dissect the cadaver” (Ozeki 323). Through this connection Haruki #1 can make people understand how great Zazen feels by comparing it to science which everyone is more likely to understand. Marlo Starr in the article, "Beyond Machine Dreams: Zen, Cyber-, and Transnational Feminism in Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being” writes about how the novel revolves around Buddhist ideology and feminism. Starr claims, Ruth through constant use of digital technology may actually create a meaningful relationship with Nao, in terms of social media and cell phones