A Critical Analysis of Haruki Murakami’s Work, “The Boy Named Crow“

"The Boy Named Crow" by Haruki Murakami  ( Excerpt from kafka on the Shore) Critical Analysis by:  Jhanine R. Adona                                       The story of Kafka on the Shore is structured around the alternating stories of Kafka Tamura, a 15- year-old boy who runs away from home to scape an awful oedipal prophecy,and Nakata, an aging and illiterate simpleton who has never completely recoverd from a wartime affliction. Kafka’s journey brings him to a small private library in the provincial town of Takamatsu and to a mountain hideway where the ordinary laws of time no longer apply . But, like Oedipus, the more Kafka tries to avoid his fate, the closer he comes to fulfilling it. Nakata also sets forth on a quest for an enigmatic rntrance stone, the significance of which he does not understand these narratives push relentlessly forward like trains running on parallel tracks we know the tracks will converge at some point but not knowing when or where or ho

@ source  The story “ The Boy Named Crow ” that was excerpted from “ Kafka on the Shore ” by Haruki Murakami, that is from Japan, was about Kafka and Crow’s interactions talking about Kafka’s plan to run away. It started with Crow asking Kafka if he has the money needed for his necessities so he is prepared for the outside world after he flee. Crow keeps interrogating him about what he haves in mind and gave an advice to him that fate is something that you cannot escape and that he should be strong in order to face it and Kafka did put this advice in heart. Eventually on Kafka’s fifteenth birthday he intended to run away from home, goes to a journey in a far away town and lives in a small library, being the strongest fifteen year old there is.   A short story of a child dreaming to be an independent person and be free from the chains of his home and with his acquaintance offering his guidance to the boy in a dallying way. At first read it might be difficult to understand since