The Theme Of Life And Death In Norwegian Wood By Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami takes the reader through story of a man’s journey and his love life. On the back of the book, it describes the novel as “a magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one’s college student’s romantic coming of age…” This quote can be seen through the relationship of Toru and Naoko. The development of the plot in Norwegian Wood are taken through challenging events the characters go through.
It is difficult to choose a single theme or only one motif because Haruki wrote the story to surround many.
The theme of life and death is obvious from the very beginning of the book to how the story progresses to the end. The title "Norwegian Wood" is actually based off the Beatles’ song and it was being played in the airport when Toru was there. The story starts to be tragic, but has a good plot to …show more content…
We should not lose the thought that these are Toru’s memories compressed together of what he remembers. It was enjoyable to read about his life in his perspective and what he had thought about the situations he had been in. At the end of the first chapter he writes of how the painful clarity of his memories of Naoko And how he affected him in the early life. He writes a plethora of letters that get sent out to Naoko, Reiko, and Midori. After the stunts he pulled with Midori, I was a bit supposed she still talked to him. Reading more and more into the book, the characters deal with mental and emotional disorders like depression. One of the letters Toru writes is about him getting over whelmed by everything and hating everyone who he saw and how he viewed the world. It was more a journal entry than a letter. Naoko has trouble herself into words to share with others, and this serves as the essence of her pain. The theme of life and death affects them and us as