Seta

            Seta by Alessandro Baricco

              Seta or Silk in English translation is a Novel Made by and Italian writer Alessandro Baricco during 1996. Where Harve Joncour is wishing a trade of silk to a Japanese Emperor Hara Kei at first they have a good relationship but when Hara kei find out that Harve Joncour is also having an affair to his second wife he become angry. In addition his second wife is trying to attract Harve Joncour who has already wife during the talk between Harve Joncour and Hara kei, by also drinking  the sake in the spot where Harve Joncour drunk. It was a good story yet not good for some children. The place was good where you actually notice that it is like a old times in Japan and the costume of the Japanese are all like a samurai that show the Japanese culture.

          I love the story but it is not a romantic for me, but it tells the reality in life, once you cheat it doesn't mean you don’t love your girlfriend or wife but you choose to hurt your love ones, you choose them to have a trust issues and to have anxiety, yes we can learn about our mistake but cheating is not a mistake it is a choice you choose it. Harve Joncour can’t blame a girl who is already having an affair with a emperor of Japan, because maybe the girl is desperate to escape to the hands of Hara Kei. The story also tells us that every country need to help each other in order to fight the problems and crisis in our society but for me they use a metaphor in the novel, there’s a betrayal between a French and Japan, the Japanese girl represents Japan country and Herve Joncour represents the French, that has been attracted to the beauty of Japan and intended to steal it. For me it is not Romantic movie it is a tragic story.

            Overall I liked the story but if you will ask me is it romantic or not, probably I will answer no it is a itchy story where an affair wants to have affair that already married now they’re both affair. But the Protagonist still choose to be a good person at the end part of story he choose and learn from his mistake. I wonder if how many people also experiencing this kind of conflict.

Surrealism of Kafka on The shore

              Haruki Murakami

                          One of the famous novelist in Japan. He was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1949. He grew up in Kobe but later on he moved to Tokyo. His first work is Hear the Wind Sing that won a  Gonzou Literature Prize for Budding Writers during 1979. And followed by Pinball 1973 and A Wild Sheep Chase, which all Together form "The Trilogy of the Rat". He is also the writer of " Kafka on The Shore" it is all about a boy named Kafka that run away from home.


Reflection

        Based on what I understand about the novel it is all about a life of a teenager that everyone can experience. Kafka is the most relatable character on the story, whenever you read about his story in the novel you will also tell to your self that i'm still lucky because some of the teenagers also suffer from what they call mental illness like Kafka, in the story the writer did not state that Kafka is having a mental illness but after reading the story maybe he became depressed on what happen in his family, and Crow is just his imaginary friend that making him feel alive and made him to think twice, and have a proper decision. It is creepy but everyone of us want a friend that will guide and correct us

       Another one that the novel tells us is to learn to be alone because in real life we got nothing, the only thing we need is to fight and dream, because the only thing we can do if there is a tsunami in our front is to face it and fight do not run away, because when we turn our back it means surrender. It is OK to have nothing because you can not lost and lose, instead of having a lot then you will felt dead in the end. Kafka already lost his mother and sister but it seems he want to find them even he do not know how he will start and first of all he has no friend that why he can not ask help for anyone ,but what ever happen there will be a people or person that will help you, no matter how big or what worth of their help the important is you help people.

      Demons... all of us are having demons inside us sometimes they command us and control us, their strength is our weakness, and the only way to defeat them is to overcome our thoughts and fear, sometimes they are the great pretender, but in the novel it also tells that once we defeat demons inside us it means success and knew tasks. They will comeback after we defeat them and stronger and wiser but this demons are our dark side, we just need to cuddle the darkness so it can become light. Kafka was slowly swallowing by the darkness once he was still a child and suffer from pain that's way he become like a rebel son while growing and we can not blame him because of his life experience.

     In the story the writer also tells the reader that the attitude and the way how the child act is the way how their parents grow him, and it also show that what will happen if the a child experienced disorganized attachment. Once a child experience this it can have a big impact to a personality even he still growing up.

    The most amazing lesson of this story is once the storm is so strong, do not run away from it or escape the only thing you can do is fight that storm and wait for the shine of the sun, or once you have a problem solve it or find a solution, yes it is harder than a mathematical problem but you just need to know the equation and correct formula, because once Kafka run away from his home it means he is scared from facing his problems, maybe the only solution he can think is to run away from it, but for me the interpretation of why did he go to the gym, it is because he is working out for his problem.

    His Hemophilia maybe, he is bleeding inside because of what happened.