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Concept Map Fall 2021, Anima mundi - the interconnectedness of all life…
Concept Map Fall 2021
hollow men - uncreative, unimaginative, and unyielding to change when presented with new information
Intolerance in Kafka on the Shore: the three women that come into the library touting tolerance and equality while their actions, efforts, and words betray their true hollowness.
Mr. Cheong in Vegetation shows his hollowness in his unwillingness to address his wife, Yeong-hye's, mental illness. Instead, he reacts with violence and abuse against his wife while he fantasizes about his sister-in-law, In-hye. He is the one that betray's his wife's diet to her strict family, inviting more abuse upon his own wife.
In-hye's husband is an artist and film-maker haunted by dreams of his sister-in-law, Yeong-hye. He films her with a friend to fulfill his sexual fantasy. He ends up using her and filming their intercourse and when In-hye discovers the film, she calls emergency services on both of them to protect them both and herself.
The Hunters in Drive Your Plow exhibited hollowness in their inability to recognize their impact on the community's biodiversity as well as their cult-like beliefs in how they tie into their Christianity. Instead of embracing all life as equal, the hunters (under the pastor) use their religion to justify their elevated position of superiority over animals who exist to serve and feed humanity.
In Exit West,* the doors in wealthier countries were more closely guarded and more selective with who they let through, despite having plenty of empty houses.
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nature vs nurture
The Caldwell Estate produced many different individuals, some that interpolated the system they worked within and others that were killed before they could change their nature.
Kafka believed he had no agency in changing his father's prophecy, but with the guidance of Oshima and Ms. Saeki, he left his past behind and started a new life.
Yeong-hye was raised in a misogynistic and meat-eating culture and she rejected her life as a human, which she had been stifled and she wanted to become one with the earth instead
Tambu missed a lot of the violence in her country and felt disconnected from her family and the people in her village. She interpolated a lot of the values instilled in her in a religious school. She could only see the damage her dissociation had done when her mother lashed out at her
Because of his father's abuse, Kafka adopted another personality, or an imaginary friend that he would sometimes talk to. Crow was a wiser version of Kafka and tried to steer him in the right direction. He tries to stop Kafka from raping his sister in his dream, but Kafka wouldn't listen because he was subconsciously fulfilling his father's prophecy, something Crow did not want for him
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Identity, Imagined Borders & Limits
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The refugees were all but helpless in a foreign country, learning new languages and living together in scattered pieces of community. It was fate that Richard met them and later he sympathized with their predicament and sought to learn more about them.
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Ms. Saeki's life, at least her will to live, ended with the death of her lover when she was 20 years old. She worked at the library but she never allowed anyone into her life like that again
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autonomy
Fate
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It was fate that Nadia and Saeed left together on the boat and through the doors but they had different needs and desires, which caused them to end their relationship. The old woman in Palo Alto accepted her fate when she mused, "we are all migrants through time." She accepted the world would grow and change rapidly around her.
The doors represented not only rapid change, but the interconnectedness of human life and activity, and what would happen if the borders humans established were made ineffective. Billions of dollars goes into the effort of halting human migration, but Exit West is a testament to the spectrum of kindness and violence when physical borders are dissolved and all that is left are the borders and limits within human perception.
Janina was an avid tracker of horoscopes and saw the death of the hunters written in the stars as a grand gesture of justice
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NW: Four characters try to live their adult lives outside of the Caldwell Estate with various success but their stories are interconnected, and incomplete without describing their stories in tandem
Natalie: she has achieved everything anyone could want on paper... but she leads a double life setting up encounters with swingers to have some control over her unfulfilling life. When she is discovered by her husband, she almost ends her life
Felix: he was a drug addict but breaks things off with his lover to start a new life with his girlfriend... but is a victim to violence and his past and dies during an armed robbery
Leah: she is naive and in her kindness, falls victim to a scam which leads her to question her trust in community. She does not share her husband's desire for children and secretly takes birth control to hold autonomy over her own body and desires.
Post-colonialism
NW: we see how race and class status breeds doubt, imposter syndrome, and deep unhappiness with no sense of relief. The four principle characters navigate a post-colonial landscape marked by their success or failure to navigate that system.
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Yeong-hye suffers at the hand of domestic abuse from her husband and her father. She is not allowed autonomy when she changes her diet and her father forces meat into her mouth, at which she cuts herself and goes to a psychiatric hospital, which removes one's autonomy for the health and safety of that person. Her autonomy is taken away again at the lustful hands of her brother-in-law, but her sister, In-hye, remains her biggest advocate for Yeong-hey's health and safety at the end of the novel.
Tambu watches her hostel-mate Gertrude as she is harassed by a crowd on the combi. Tambu feels separated from her war-torn hometown because of the western education she received. She does not realize the reification of the woma
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