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Global Experience, Desire, Identity, Rebellion, Ecofemism, Alienation,…

- - - - restriction of public services
    - - growing up working class, and is heavily influenced by both her mom and dad
      - Moves up from working class via education and connections, but still feels like an outisder due to working class background
      - although coming from the same background, the two of their lives go in completely different directions
    - - working class like the narrator and influenced by her parents, although Tracey's family situation is more messy
      - Talented dancer but cannot make anything of it due to her class and limited access to education and other resources
    - - Elite celebrity with massive wealth and global stardom
      - Her status allows her to have control over terms in her relationships
        
        "There was a kind of flirtation in the way she spoke to me, as there was in the way she spoke to everybody. She held my chin in her hand. 'Don't believe you,' she said, took my fake nose ring out in one swift movement, and handed it to me." (98)
  - - - CAN BE MARKETED AS AID OR DEVELOPMENT
    - - Morally questionable motivation
      - Disconnect between Developed and Underdeveloped World
        
        Aimee's adoption of black baby
        
        The dance moves choreographed marketed as "more exotic" when in reality it is cultural appropriation
        
        "I gathered some kind of West African theme was afoot. A set of atumpan drums were delivered to the house, and a long-necked kora, swathes of kente, and-one fine Tuesday morning-a twelve-person dance troupe, African-by-way-of-Brooklyn, who were taken to the basement studio and didn't emerge till after dinner." (365)
- - - - Kafka forgives his mother for abandoning him. (free will)
      - Kafka internalized this prophecy since elementary school. "My father told me there was nothing I could do...That prophecy is like a timing device buried inside my genes" (202)
    - - Nakata chooses to sacrifice himself in order to open the entrance stone. (free will)
      - Nakata doesn't usually have a reason why he does certain things, he just has to.
        
        (Hoshino) "'You're just going to cross the bridge to Shikoku and then go somewhere else.'" (Nakata) "'That's right.'" (Hoshino) "'And you don't know where that somewhere is.'" (Nakata) "'I have no idea. But I think I'll know it when I get there.'" (209)
  - - - The mysterious village within the woods behind the cabin
      - The incident at Rice Bowl Hill
      - Nakata's ability to talk to cats and make strange weather occur
      - Kafka's spirit leaving his body
        
        Ikiryō: when a living person's spirit leaves their body to carry out a task
- - - - Critique of Hunting
    - - the consequence of these beliefs
        
        Alienation from society
        
        the uncertainty if she is unstable or sane
        
        eventually takes the side of nature and becomes a vessel for revenge on behalf of it
- - - - The legal system and asylum system restrict refugees to living where they end up, regardless of any outside factors
      - Migrants have to wait for undefined periods of time to figure out their future
      - Psychological challenges such as trauma, alienation, and loss of self-worth
      - Social challenges like prejudices, racism, and the language barrier
      - Lack of job opportunities and the chance to
    - - Exposes the injustice of the asylum system
      - Confronts not only Germany's colonial legacy, but Europe's as well
      - Calls for a change in social structure and also forces German citizens to come to terms with an uncomfortable reality
    - - vs
      - Richard beginning to see the migrants as individuals
        
        "Richard considers what to say as a resident of a country that has seventy thousand vacant apprentice positions with no one to fill them, a country that suffers from a shortage of trained workers but is nonetheless unwilling to accept these dark-skinned refugees." (125)
      - His moral awakening the the failures of the German legal system
    - - The German legal system deems refugees as illegal
      - Legal system only serves to further the exclusion of the migrants from society
      - control of public opinion
  - - - Refugees histories are shaped by trauma, violence, and displacement
        
        "When I tried to complain, he says, they hit me in the head with a rifle butt. You can still see the scar: Awad parts his hair with his fingers and shows the scar to the professor...If you're lucky, you get beaten, if you're unlucky, you get shot, someone said to console me." (61)
      - Richard lived through Germany when it was divided and when it was reunified. Being from East Germany himself, he has experience under an oppressive regime
      - Unaware of refugee crisis despite his academic background
    - - The refugee crisis is a consequence of European colonialism in Africa
        
        In the case of German history, they choose to emphasize in acknowledging certain parts of their history (Holocaust) while ignoring others (colonialism and racism)
        
        The Dublin II Regulation prevents refugees from gaining status as true citizens
      - Neocolonialism derives from European colonialism
- - - - The marital rape of Yeong-hye by her husband
      - Yeong-hye's father forcing meat down her throat against her own will
    - - Yeong-hye getting coerced into sex by her brother in law
        
        projection of sexual desire
    - - Yeong-hye cuts herself at dinner with her family
        
        "Jaw clenched, her intent stare facing each of us down in turn, my wife brandished the knife...Blood ribboned out of her wrist. The shock of red splashed over white china." (46)
      - Yeong-hye's brother in law's attempt to end his life
- - - - Nakata represents Kafka's missing half
- - - - "All you want from your mother is that...she is your mother and only your mother...Only as an adult did I come to truly admire her...When I was young her refusal to submit to me confused and wounded me...My earliest sense of her was of a woman plotting an escape, from me, from the very role of motherhood." (18)
- - - - Kafka's true familial relationship comes from his found family, like Oshima and Miss Saeki
  - - - found family
- - - - The prophecy Kafka's father places on him is that Kafka will one day kill his father and then sleep with his mother and sister