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Literature of Global Experience - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Shes angry on the behalf of those who can’t protect themselves and takes things into her own hands
        
        “These grotesque figures had four legs and a cabin with embrasures on top. Pulpits, for hunting. This name has always amazed and angered me. For what on earth was taught from that sort of pulpit? What sort of gospel was preached? Isn’t it the height of arrogance, isn’t it a diabolical idea to call a place from which one kills a pulpit?” (Tokarczuk, 54)
  - - - What in the text was “fated” and what was a result of free will? Janina believes that her killing the men who were killing animals was fate, but that was an objective choice she made.
- - - - The narrator is originally very invested in helping Aimee, but once she realizes that Aimee isn’t a great person, she feels like all of her work has been for nothing
      - She feels retroactively helpless for not realizing Tracey’s father was abusing her and not doing anything when it was occurring.
      - The biggest action she takes to not feel helpless is, after parting ways with Aimee, publicly exposing her for buying the child she ‘adopted’
  - - - While not referring to Aimee’s school, this quote still applies: “for myself, I don’t care if there are singers or dresses or platters of food— none of it matters to me. But my grandmothers! Oh, she has started a war in this place!” (Smith, 412)
- - - - “ In-hye was the only one who allowed Yeong-hye to free herself of these expectations, instead she takes them on herself: “Their parents, whom the whole sorry saga seemed to have greatly aged didn’t make any further effort to visit Yeong-hye, and even severed contact with their elder daughter, In-hye, who reminded them of their animal of a son-in-law. The two sisters’ younger brother, Yeong-ho and his wife were no different. But she, In-hye, could not bring herself to abandon Yeomg-hye. Someone had to pay the hospital fees, someone had to act as her carer. And she got by, as she always had done.” (Kang, 142).
  - - - If Kafka builds a wall round himself to keep others out, Yeong-hye builds a shelter around herself that she can let people into as she sees fit, like her sister
- - - - Richard himself didn’t even notice the protests when he walked by them, only when he returned home and saw them on TV.
  - - - “It takes him until it is time to turn on the desk lamp again to understand that all this law regulates is jurisdiction. It doesn’t concern itself with the question of whether or not these men are victims of war.” (Erpenbeck, 66).
- - - - He doesn’t do these things literally, Miss Saeki is a stand in for his mother and Nakata kills Kafka’s father.
  - - - Nakata does what Kafka wanted to do, creating a connection between the two.
    - - “I guess he wanted me to know I was one of the works he’d created. Something he’d finished and signed.” (Murakami, 203).