![]() ![]() ![]() Then it gets REALLY WEIRD out of nowhere!! The older sister is sound asleep, and the TV flicks on and off and the reader, who is kindof acknowledged by the author as being in the room, sees a man in a chair in the TV, and the man in the tv is watching the older sister sleep. (the chapters are entitled as times of night, not ‘chapter one’ etc. ![]() Then, in the second chapter, I realized it was a novel, not a short-story collection, because the older sister in chapter one comes into play. I like how Murakami uses simple scenarios to communicate profound ideas in life what makes us feel good within ourselves, how can we capture that? How do we stop comparing ourselves to others (such as beautiful older sisters)? How can we tell if someone has our best interest in mind? It seemed to be a character-study type of short story. I read the first chapter, which was deceivingly slow-moving, wherein a quiet, studious girl reads a book in a Denny’s in the late morning, and a boy who had a crush on her sister sits down next to her. When I first started reading After Dark, I thought it was a short-story collection, somehow. ![]()
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