Kafka on the Shore: Difference between revisions

* [[Mrs. Robinson]]: Miss Saeki, who might also be Kafka's mother.

* [[New Weird]]

* [[Or Was It a Dream?]]

* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: In some ways more subtle than others.

** Things {{spoiler|[[You Can't Fight Fate|go south.]] }}

* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: {{spoiler|Saeki's lover was killed by student revolutionaries who mistook him for a university official and refused to listen to his denials of this}}.

* [[Shrug of God]]: Murakami specifically states in his blog that the interpretation of {{spoiler|Saeki and Kafka being related}}, as well many other parts of the novel, are all up to the reader.

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Oshima is charming, well-read, and physically weak. His older brother is an asocial surfer. {{spoiler|Subverted when Kafka finally meets Oshima's brother. Oshima is really just as asocial, but Kafka is somehow able to tease conversation out of both brothers}}.

* [[Transsexual]]: {{spoiler|Oshima is female-to-male transsexual attracted to men. He's intersex as well, having underdeveloped breasts and no period}}.

* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]

{{quote| ''"First of all, {{spoiler|I'm not a male}}," Oshima announces.<br />

A dumbfounded silence follows on the part of everybody. I gulp and shoot Oshima a glance.<br />