The prose is what blends all these elements together. When you’re awake you can suppress imagination. But you have to sleep, an dreams are a part of sleep. Afraid of the responsibility that begins in dreams. Obviously, I’ve only read it once but I feel like I’ve just scrapped the surface of what this book has opened up to me (does that make sense?) and I look forward to rereading it and gaining even more out of the experience. That definitely comes across in this book. A quote from the author’s website has him explaining the reader would benefit from multiple reads of the story: It’s an epic tale, really, and part of the reason I love it so much is that the answers are never spelt out but there’s enough to go on that you can read between the lines and figure things out yourself, it’s not so open ended. Murakami provides the readers with some answers but never anything flat out and only enough that you, the reader, has something to further reflect upon. It deals very much with life and death, love both physical and emotional, the meaning of life and finding your place. Kafka on the Shore is a novel that was written to make you think. Leading straight into the emotional value of the piece, I actually felt hollow and sad when a character died and I felt proud and happy when a character realized how they were changing for the better (trying to avoid spoilers here, my apologies for the generalities). Each is unique and well-developed and while those are just two general words to describe the characters, those are the only two words that I love to be able to apply to a whole cast of characters. Let’s start with the characters, since the three other elements pretty much evolve from there in this book, I think.There are five characters central to the story.
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