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- - - - This novel connects to global experience due to the global political structure which is male dominated. The novel explains the effects of a patriarchal society on women and the resulting abuse that comes from it that even make family members accept these abuses as the norm.
      - “She's a good woman, he thought. The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive.”
      - “The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure. She had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. Her devotion to doing things the right way had been unflagging, all her successes had depended on it, and she would have gone on like that indefinitely. She didn't understand why, but faced with those decaying buildings and straggling grasses, she was nothing but a child who had never lived.”
- - - - This connects to global experience through Oshima's use of Western philosophy to explain humanity's actions to Kafka serves as a way for Murakami to connect Kafka's learning experience with a global audience.
      - “It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.”
      - “According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people.
        In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangment and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing half.”
      - “It’s like my identity’s an orbit that I’ve strayed far away from.”
      - “Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.”
- - - - This novel connects to global experience by understanding the effects of white supremacist post-colonialism and neo-colonialism on the people living in the countries that were victims of their effects. It also teaches us how we as Westerners continuously contribute to neo-colonialism through tourism that takes advantage of the people living within these countries.
      - “What we heard all the time is that you were not working. That's what was said, that that degree of yours was just a piece of paper sitting, silently rotting.”
      - “How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?”
- - - - This connects with global experience through the themes of self discovery present in all of the novels. It also connects through the use of western media in the development of the characters identity and actions. Dance plays an important part in this story.
      - “A truth was being revealed to me: that I had always tried to attach myself to the light of other people, that I had never had any light of my own. I experienced myself as a kind of shadow.”
      - “People aren’t poor because they make bad choices. They make bad choices because they’re poor.”
      - “I often wondered: is it some kind of a trade-off? Do others have to lose so we can win? •”
      - “The fundamental skill of all mothers—the management of time—was beyond her. She measured time in pages.”
      - I did not want to rely on each European fact having its African shadow, as if without the scaffolding of the European fact everything African might turn to dust in my hands.
- - - - The novel follows Janina who is an older woman who lives in a rural Polish village. Janina is passionate about astrology and the poetry of William Blake. Janina believes that all life is sacred including both animals and humans and criticizes the acceptance of the murder of animals as a form of hypocrisy espoused by both the law and the catholic church which outlaw killing. In the end, it is revealed that Janina took revenge into her own hands believing that her action of killing humans is justified due to humanity being the only being capable of doing cruelty against defenseless animals.
        
        This connects to global experience due to the global domination of humanity over animals. This includes the idea of human supremacy which shows how humans use different forms of supremacy to justify cruelty to those they consider inferior whether human or not. The novel also revolves around Western literature similar to other novels through Janina being influenced by the poetry of William Blake.
        
        Title inspiration from the poem "Proverbs of Hell" signifying how humanity creates hell on earth for animal-kind. In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
        
        “It made me feel sad, horrified, for even someone as foul as he was did not deserve death. Who on earth does? The same fate awaits me too, and Oddball, and the Deer outside; one day we shall all be nothing more than corpses.”
- - - - "Why would we want to move?' she said. 'To be among our own kind,' Saeed answered. 'What makes them our kind?' 'They’re from our country.' 'From the country we used to be from.'
        'Yes.' Saeed tried not to sound annoyed. 'We’ve left that place.' 'That doesn’t mean we have no connection.' 'They’re not like me.'"
      - "but that is the way of things, for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind."
      - This connects to global experience through the experiences of those needing to leave their homes due to dangers out of their control. The novel explores the idea of nationalism as a reaction to fears from people that are perceived as others coming into human-made borders and countries that do not allow humans to do what they naturally are inclined to do when dealing with danger. It also explores the difficulties that those have to leave their homes where they have made memories at.
      - "We are all migrants through time."
- - - - "The colonised are smothered in bureaucracy, which is a pretty clever way to keep them from taking political action."
      - This story connects to global experience through Richard not needing to learn about the effects of colonialism until he decided to learn about the Asylum seekers. Richard realizes that the asylum seekers have to learn about their countries political situations and the history of these situations as a necessity to seek asylum in Germany highlighting how privilege allows those that posses it to remain ignorant. This ignorance causes people to not care about the plight of their fellow humans through human made differences created by white supremacy and sources of privilege.
      - "The Africans probably had no idea who Hitler was, but even so: only if they survived Germany now would Hitler truly have lost the war."
      - "The foreigner … is trapped between the now invisible fronts in an intra-European discussion that has nothing at all to do with him or the actual war he’s trying to escape from."
      - Jorg and Monica having the privilege to travel to Italy on vacation in contrast to the Asylum seekers being stuck in the camp.