In class we were discussing the possible meanings behind various ideas and themes in the book. I found it very interesting to hear other people’s ideas on sheep and how we are all kind of like sheep, brainlessly following. The time was another interesting one for me since I have traveled to several areas in the world including Peru (South America was mentioned in class). Time goes by at the same rate there, there is still 60 seconds to the minute and 60 minutes to the hour, but they all treat time as more fluid than we in America do. To them two o’clock is sometime after two, but to use two means get there ten minutes before two o’clock. It is so interesting to think about the difference between the two.
My group had the cold topic; when we got assigned it I immediately thought of how Boku has acted rather cold throughout the book. My other group members were thinking about how it was becoming physically colder when Boku was traveling North. I’m not sure if I shared my train of thought but I felt like Murakami made Boku seem cold because that is the direction the World seems to be taking. Everyone is getting colder and more desensitized; they don’t value their family or friends like people used to. All they seem to care about is me.
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Great work, Anthony, as usual. I agree that there's a lot of social commentary in this book, especially in regard to the desensitization or general coldness of humanity. It seems to me that Boku embodies this state. How can he - and we - get out of this predicament?
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