1.“Kikuji did not know whether or not he would go to the tea ceremony” (Kawabata 3).
In this passage, Chikako invites Kikuji to a tea ceremony that she is holding, she also had an affair with his father. This is the reason why Kikuji is questioning going to the tea ceremony. Kikuji is the main character of Thousand Cranes and this passage is relevant to analyzing his character because he does not want to be anything like his father, including getting involved with those close to his father. Kikuji is lost as a character and he has not idea who he is; he just knows that he does not want to be like is father. Kawabata does this to help the readers understand Kikuji’s emotional conflicts that take place through this work. Kikuji ends up doing to complete opposite of what he said he never wanted to do, be like his father.
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The major conflict in Kawabata’s work is the affair between Kikuji and Mrs.Ota leading up to her suicide, which is also a major point in the work. Kawabata states, “If Mrs.Ota had made her mistake when she saw Kikuji’s father in Kikuji, then there was something frightening, a bond like a curse, in the fact that, to Kikuji, Fumiko resembled her mother; but Kikuji, unprotesting, gave himself to the drift” (Kawabata 78). This is ironic because Kikuji does not want to be like his father and yet he becomes romantically involved with Mrs.Ota. Foster, in chapter 26 of How To Read Literature Like A Professor, states “Irony- sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes wry or perplexing- provides additional richness to the literary dish. And it certainly keeps us readers on our toes, inviting us, compelling us, to dig through layers of possible meaning and competing signification… irony trumps everything” (Foster 244). The idea irony trumps everything is true in this work because Kawabata’s ironic example is the reason for all of Kikuji’s internal conflicts throughout the
In this passage, Chikako invites Kikuji to a tea ceremony that she is holding, she also had an affair with his father. This is the reason why Kikuji is questioning going to the tea ceremony. Kikuji is the main character of Thousand Cranes and this passage is relevant to analyzing his character because he does not want to be anything like his father, including getting involved with those close to his father. Kikuji is lost as a character and he has not idea who he is; he just knows that he does not want to be like is father. Kawabata does this to help the readers understand Kikuji’s emotional conflicts that take place through this work. Kikuji ends up doing to complete opposite of what he said he never wanted to do, be like his father.
2.“A wave of …show more content…
The major conflict in Kawabata’s work is the affair between Kikuji and Mrs.Ota leading up to her suicide, which is also a major point in the work. Kawabata states, “If Mrs.Ota had made her mistake when she saw Kikuji’s father in Kikuji, then there was something frightening, a bond like a curse, in the fact that, to Kikuji, Fumiko resembled her mother; but Kikuji, unprotesting, gave himself to the drift” (Kawabata 78). This is ironic because Kikuji does not want to be like his father and yet he becomes romantically involved with Mrs.Ota. Foster, in chapter 26 of How To Read Literature Like A Professor, states “Irony- sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes wry or perplexing- provides additional richness to the literary dish. And it certainly keeps us readers on our toes, inviting us, compelling us, to dig through layers of possible meaning and competing signification… irony trumps everything” (Foster 244). The idea irony trumps everything is true in this work because Kawabata’s ironic example is the reason for all of Kikuji’s internal conflicts throughout the