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Global Expirience
the book follows Kafka as he runs away from his father who has prophesized that he will have sex with his mother and sister and that he will kill his father. Kafka gets on a bus and meets Sakura. Kafka spends most of his time at the library but goes to a gym and hotel as well. Kafka wakes up in a bush outside of a shrine covered in blood. He has no recollection of how he had gotten there. He calls Sakura who lets him stay the night. Kafka leaves and goes to the library where they let him work. Kafka meets Oshima and Mrs.Saeki at the library. Kafka's father was murdered and people are looking for Kafka as he hasn't been home and people want to know what happened. Oshima lets Kafka stay at his house in the mountains to let things cool down. Kafka is warned about the woods and how he wont find his way back if he enters them. Kafka reads books and exercises. Eventually he goes back to the library where he works. Kafka begins seeing someone in the middle of the night at the library who he believes to be a 15 year old Mrs.Saeki. Kafka talks to Mrs.Saeki and it is revealed that she could be Kafka's mom. Kafka wakes up again to find Mrs.Saeki there. They have sex and both of them act as what the other needs. Kafka is the boyfriend that was taken away from Mrs.Saeki and Mrs.Saeki is Kafka's Mother. Kafka goes back into the mountains. Kafka goes into the woods and allows himself to go without fear of being lost by dropping all of his equipment. Kafka eventually finds two soldiers who have been lost in the woods for years and they take him to an area where he meets Mrs.Saeki one last time. They talk and Kafka asks if she is his mother. She says that he knows the answer and he leaves. Kafka goes back to the library to find that Mrs.Saeki is dead. Kafka goes back home.
The books has a second story happening at the same time. Something happened in Japan during the second world war that caused a class of children walking in the woods to collapse. One of the children is named Nakata and he doesn't wake up after having collapsed for about three weeks. When Nakata wakes up he seems to be stupid. He doesn't remember much and now he has the ability to speak to cats. The book picks up again in the present and now Nakata is searching for a missing cat. Nakata's search for the cat takes him to someone named Johnny Walker. Walker kills a bunch of cats in order to harvest their souls. Walker tells Nakata that the only way that he stops is if Nakata kills him. Nakata kills him and wakes up as if it had never happened. Nakata goes to turn himself in and the police officer lets him go. Nakata begins traveling west. Nakata hitchhikes and gets to a stop. Nakata meets Hoshino who helps him continue going. Nakata made it rain fish and leaches. Nakata was in search of a a stone that would help fate continue on its set course. Nakata goes to sleep for comically long amounts of time. While Nakata sleeps Hoshino encounters real life Colonel Sanders. Sanders gives Hoshino a prostitute and then takes him to a shrine where they get the rock that Nakata is looking for. Hoshino brings the rock and then Nakata ponders it. Hoshino and Nakata open the rock and it allows fate to continue as it is intended. Nakata goes and meets Mrs.Saeki and she gives him a bunch of papers that chronical her entire life. Nakata takes the papers and destroys them. Mrs.Saeki dies. Nakata goes to an apartment given to them by Colonel Sanders and they wait for the time to come for the to close the rock. Nakata dies and Hoshino has to close the rock at the proper time but he doesn't know when he's supposed to do that. Eventually Hoshino closes the rock and goes back to his normal life.
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Book opens narrated by Yeong-Hye's husband. he wants to live a normal life with nothing that makes him different from others. He wants a normal wife who doesn't do anything out of the ordinary. Yeong-Hye wants to take up a vegan lifestyle to help her stop having dreams that are harming her. The two of them go to a work dinner for her husband where she embarrasses him by not wanting to eat meat. We get a glimpse into what Yeong-Hye dreams of with moments where she says that she sees all meat and the process that allows us to eat it as violence. Yeong-Hye's family is invited to their house where they discover that she doesn't want to eat meat. They force feed her meat and her Husband thinks of her father as an amazing man for not letting her not eat meat. The chapter ends with her hospitalized because she refuses to eat meat.
Chapter opens narrated by Yeong-Hye's brother in-law. watching a performance. He calls the performance crude and gross. He believes that he can do it better. He draws a character covered in flowers and the more he draws the more it resembles Yeong-Hye. He contacts Yeong-Hye and asks her to get the flowers painted on her. Yeong-Hye agrees because she believes it will help stopping the dreams. Yeong-Hye is no longer married and lives on her own. Yeong-Hye's Brother in-law takes her and paints on flowers. He then wants to get his co worker to come and also get flowers painted on him and then they will take pictures in sex positions. the co worker doesn't agree and backs out. Yeong-Hye thinks he needs to take the pictures so he paints himself and records himself having sex with Yeong-Hye. Yeong-Hye's sister finds the recording and leaves her husband and puts Yeong-Hye into a mental facility.
The Final Chapter opens with Yeong-Hye's Sister Narrating. She has to take care of her own child now on her own and also look after Yeong-Hye who has been placed into a mental health facility. Yeong-Hye's sister is jealous of Yeong-Hye because she was able to stop being a person and defies all of the societal norms. Yeong-Hye stops eating and acts to try and become a plant. Yeong-Hye is unable to become a plant and still refuses to eat. She is forced to eat and does everything in her power to prevent it. When the facility cant get her to eat she was put into an ambulance and her sister realizes that Yeong-Hye isn't a bad person and just wanted to live how she wanted.
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Generational Trauma
In Go, Went, Gone people forced out of their countries and made refugees would suffer a generational trauma. Some of them had families they left behind. Generations of people would be impacted by the situations that led them to seek asylum elsewhere
In Exit West the unnamed civilization that Nadia and Saeed originated in was on the brink of collapse. Generations of people will be and were impacted by the issues that arose.
Yeong-Hye was forced to be "normal" because of generations of people before her establishing societal norms. Generations of people caused her problem
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The book opens with two main characters. Nadia and Saeed. The Two of them live in a society that has a multitude of problems and is close to war. Due to values imposed by society Nadia and Saeed are not meant to be seen together in public. They text often however soon the government shuts off all cell data and Wi-Fi. Tensions in the country worsen and Saeed's Mother is killed by stray gunfire. Nadia Moves in with Saeed and his father. Nadia hears rumors of doors that can take people to different countries. The state of the country worsens and they find someone offering a magical door to leave near them. The two of them go through the door and end up in the Mykonos. Wealthy countries have found the doors and want to keep people out as best they can. Months later Nadia meets a girl and she helps them through a new door. The door takes them to London where they stay for a while. The couple's love starts to diminish. London does not want the refugees coming into their country and ultimately instead of wasting resources just to keep them out they accept them. The refugees are divided into groups based on nationality and Saeed wants to join people like him while Nadia wants to stay with the people they met where they arrived. London makes a halo city on the outskirts of London for refugees. They move to California Saeed and Nadia separate and live apart. 50 years later they meet up in the country they originated.
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Fictional Elements
Kafka has souls moving around in space and talking to cats and people living in the woods for an extended amount of time and not aging and seeing people who died else where and raining fish and leaches and rock. and Colonel Sanders
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The second part of the book opens with Tambu still hospitalized as she interacts with other patients. Tambu's family visits her and she is reconnected with her cousin who recently returned from Europe. She stays at their house and meets up with an old co-worker who she hated because she took credit for her idea Tracy. Tracy hires Tambu to come work on a new project.
Tambu works and they come up with the idea Village Eco Transit which would take tourists to go visit her home village. Tambu goes to make sure that her village is fine with it. When the time comes to take the tourists to the village they are having a celebration and the women of the village are doing a dance. One of the tourists tries to take a picture and Tambu's mother is furious. The visit goes horribly and Tambu quits. The book ends with her getting a job working in security.
The book opens with Tambu in a women's hostel where we can see that she hates her appearance and views herself through all of her negative characteristics. Tambu moves out and goes to live in the large estate of MaManyanga. Tambu gets a job working as a teacher and proceeds to hit a kid. Tambu has a mental breakdown and is hospitalized.
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Swing Time follows an unnamed narrator who goes to dance class with another girl named Tracy. Both characters are mixed having one black and one white parent. Tracy and the Narrator become great friends. Tracy's father isn't present in her life and they like to believe that he is a back up dancer for Michael Jackson even though they both know that isn't true. Both children grow up and as they grow they drift apart. The Narrator goes and gets a higher education and works as an assistant to the pop star Aimee and Tracy works as a dancer however it doesn't work out and she becomes impoverished again. Aimee goes to a village in Africa and dumps a ton of money into a school in order to help children who she declares are in need of her help. The narrator gets involved with a scandal because of her association with Aimee. Tracy releases a video of the Narrator and Tracy from when they were kids. In the video the kids were wearing revealing clothing and dancing. the novel ends with the narrator going to Tracy's house where she finds Tracy and her kids dancing on a balcony.
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Issues With Family
Yeong-Hye was abused by her father and her sister watched and did nothing as he hit her. Yeong-Hye's sister was also a problem with her situation as instead of trying to really help she put her into a mental health institution
In This Mournable Body the climax of the book was brought forth by her mother as she was angered by the tourist taking pictures of them
Kafka's father is a part of the reason he ran away in the first place. He was also in search of his mother and sister.
In Swing Time the Narrator's parents caused issues through the way they lived. The father had a secret second family and the mother had a lifestyle that wasn't very nurturing
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The book opens with Janina being awoken by her neighbor Oddball who informs her that their other Neighbor Bigfoot has died. Bigfoot had died from choking to death on something he poached illegally. Janina is convinced that the murders are done by wild life and can be predicted via the stars and astrology. Janina's former student finds the police commandant dead and Janina is still pushing the theory that it is the wild life pushing back. Janina is questioned by the police who view her as crazy and she says that the stars can explain everything happening. A wealthy business man goes missing and his foxes have been released. Janina becomes romantic partners with a man who researches bugs. As spring comes around the body of the business man is found. A new patron saint of hunting is established by Father Rustle. Father Rustle is also a hunter. Janina criticizes the church and is mad at their hypocrisy as they praise hunters who are doing bad things. Overnight the chapel burns down. Oddball and Dizzy suspect Janina of killing all of the men and she admits to four of the murders. she is adamant that bigfoot choked to death and it was not her. She did it because the four men killed her two dogs and she found the evidence of that at bigfoot's house the night that he died. The next morning police go to her house but she has already fled to the Czech republic
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The book follows Richard a retired professor. Richard lives in Berlin Germany and notices that there are a ton of refugees near where he lives trying to get a home. Richard visits the refugees and initially just listens to them. he doesn't provide anything to help. Richard goes back again and begins talking to the refugees trying to help. he talks to a bunch of them and wants to help as best he can. Richard works to help the people. Some he teaches German, some he works with to teach skills to make money and others he just listens to and helps their problem. Richard has a group of friends that he does stuff with often. and he talks with them about how he is helping the refugees. some are accepting and others are defiant of the idea that refugees need anyone's help. the refugees move to a different location further from Richard. Richard realizes that many of the refugees are skilled and capable workers however the government wont take them. the government makes it illegal for the refugees to stay so Richard takes in as many as he can. The book ends with a party at Richard's house with friends and refugees and Richard finally realizes that he wasn't happy with his and his wife's relationship.
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impact of refugees
Refugees make up the entire plot of Go, Went, Gone. Refugees give Richard purpose. without them he wouldn't be doing anything and his life wouldn't have changed
The refugees in Exit West allowed for the world to change and stop viewing the refugees as people who don't belong. In London they had the halo city for the refugees