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Global Experience in Literature, Yeong-Hye is initially the "ideal…

- - - - Kafka's relationship with Miss Saeki is a deep admiration for her. He looks up to her as a mother, but also a lover. He begins to dream of the young version of her and eventually comes onto her in the real world. (Oedipus)
        
        Colonel Sanders plays the role of a "pimp" but also as a helper in Hoshino's mission. Mr, Sanders finds Hoshino the perfect lady to service his needs. This escort mentions how she sells sex as a way to pay for college,
  - - - Miss Saeki uses writing as an outlet to process her feelings of grief and isolation. More of a diary entry than the idea of publication. She asks Kafka to destroy her writing once she's passed.
        
        Miss Saeki was a singer, made her fortune off of her one hit record, "Kafka on the Shore", but then her grief got the best of her and she stopped singing or listening to the record she made for her lover
    - - Kafka's father was a sculptor
      - Oshima's reference to T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" speaks on his opinion of society. Hollow people stand for nothing, believe in nothing, have no sense of larger ideas
  - - - Nakata has a talent of communicating with cats. Since Nakata lives a fairly isolated and simple life, never leaving his neighborhood, he finds joy and connection with the world around him through the cats and the conversations he is able to have with them.
  - - - Hoshino lived an empty existence until he met Nakata. He spent most of his life working and traveling that he never had the opportunity to just see where life would take him. Along the adventures he had with Nakata he became selfless and open to the grey area between black and white thinking. Nakata taught him how to slow down and look at the world differently. Hoshino discovered a new sense of self during his time helping Nakata recover the entrance stone.
- - - - BIL hears of Yeong-hye's mongolian mark that never faded with age and it becomes his main motivation for his next creation
        
        BIL contacts his ex-girlfriend who was a painter, and recruits her to paint on him in the same style he painted on Yeong-hye
      - In-hye supported her husband mentally and financially while he was struggling to create something new for years. He was essentially a broke artist and relied on his wife to care for the family and home while he continued to brainstorm ideas for his next big project
  - - - Observing Yeong-hye and trying to help her only leads to In-hye's discovery of her own self. She becomes somewhat envious of Yeong-hye's ability to take control of her life and disregard societies expectations. In-hye begins to question if all of the choices she's made in life were really what she wanted or if it was just what was expected of her. At the end of the novel she decides to reevaluate her decisions and open herself up to discovering her true self, like her sister chose to do.
- - - - The narrator makes the decision to help Tracy out with her children as an act of unity and sticking together in a society that is challenging for single women.
        
        The narrator's resentment towards Aimee gets the best of her when she exposes the adoption papers for Aimee's newest child. Could be potentially read as jealousy because her own mother had mentioned to her about having children.
        
        Aimee opens a school for girls (though the boys needed one as well) but the importance for girls is empowerment, education on their bodies, and to teach them things to take back to the villages.
        
        The males are forced to leave their village and sometimes even their country to go find work because there is none in their area... even more of a reason that boys need school too
        
        The judgement placed onto the narrators father because of a potential rumor shows Tracy's jealousy of the narrator having a strong father figure in her life. Sad how this rumor ruins her relationship with her father.
  - - - Aimee uses her personality as the cause for her success. She's a famous singer and performer and displays her passion for it by her elaborate pep talks and lack of understanding of the world around her. She thinks she can use her wealth "for good" by trying to fix the problems in a small African village. She also names the school she builds for the community after her most recent successful album - emphasizing her lack of understanding of the struggles these villages are facing.
  - - - There's a moment that shows the narrator's lack of connection with nature - When she uses a bucket of water to rinse away a cockroach in the home she was staying in. When the housemate tells her how far she walked to retrieve that bucket of water, the narrator realizes just out of touch she is. This moment shows her lack of understanding of nature, culture, and the struggles of other countries around things we take for granted such as water.
- - - - When the hunters showed up to mourn Bigfoot, the insisted on Janina singing a song for the dead. She didn't even like Bigfoot, or understand why she was called to the wake. When she asks "why me?", one replies, "because you're a woman." (38)
  - - - Janina was an Egnlish teacher and was passionate about her work. She enjoyed the children because the world hadn't tarnished them yet.
  - - - Janina was fascinated by Boros and his research of beetles. Janina felt a strong connection to the animals of the area but hadn't considered the bugs much until Boros taught her about the special beetles in the area.
- - - - Richard had both a wife and a "lover" and seemed to admire and dislike different qualities about each. The ending of the relationship with his lover was due to her choosing to have autonomy in their relationship. He wanted her to follow a very strict guideline on their meetings and she decided that wasn't the type of relationship she wanted.
  - - - "musicians use the black and white keys to tell stories that have nothing at all to do with the keys' colors." (161)
  - - - The refugees are on a never-ending path of self-discovery. Their whole worlds have been turned upside down and now they have no home, no family, no where to be, and no purpose. Most of them only own the clothes on their back and their memories of their former lives. They're thrown into new worlds where they're not welcome or wanted and told to figure something out. They make the best of what they can but Richard realizes how difficult it is to hold onto one's "self" when there isn't much that remains besides memories.
        
        Through Richards interactions with these men, he finds himself a new purpose and opportunity post-retirement. Richard takes on the responsibility of helping and understanding these men to give them some type of stability. He drives them around, consults with them before their appointments with lawyers, and eventually finds homes for them. Though he recognizes he can't fix the overall problem of displacement and the refugee crisis, he recognizes that he's able to do what he can and that gives him a sense of purpose and pride.
- - - - There was only one male character in the novel that understood taking advantage of Yeong-Hye was wrong. (the brother-in-law's colleague)
      - The brother-in-law mentions that Yeong-hye is more "his type" than his wife - because Yeong-hye is more submissive and passive than In-hye (initially)