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Kafka Coming Of Age Analysis
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I chose to examine the coming of age of Kafka through the form of diary containing live events, including people who affected his life. I chose the diary format because it was the most effective way to demonstrate Kafka’s thoughts in each important event and how those events affected Kafka. In this diary, I only used quotes from the book only when it is necessary, such as where the text given would be analyzed with Kafka’s voice. Adding on, in order to mimic Kafka’s voice as close as possible, I tried not to be enthusiastic on any event since he never panics in the book especially because Crow was there as well. Furthermore, I did not include Crow in the diary to establish that this diary is Kafka’s own, without the influence of
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The night that day, she came into my room and we went for a walk, and she cried to me about how much she missed me and I think she replaced me as her boy friend back when she was younger as if her inside was still young and only the appearance looked older. When we went back we had sex and I’m not sure if I liked her or I did it because it was my fate and it's what I’m supposed to do according to my father’s curse. All long this was going on, I wasn’t sure if this was all fate, but then “[I] become someone else there, something else . [I am] somewhere else.” (Murakami 320) I feel like I am slowing getting consumed by my father’s prophecy, but also at the same time growing as a man experiencing sex with an adult women and being able to choose better decisions and cope with problems maturely without running away.

It had been few days since the death of my father was shown on the newspaper with the notification of the police searching me, I was quite scared, but Oshima ensured me and one day the police actually came by to the library while I was out working out so now I have to leave the library and stay at the cabin in the woods of the mountain Oshima owns for my own safety. Oshima had been impacting me a lot in terms of growing up intellectually with our discussions as well as life experience advices. I’m really thankful I met

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