Super Frog Saves Tokyo Analysis
Amrih Saleh
Super Frog Saves Tokyo Response Haruki Murakami’s short story about a mysterious gigantic frog that saves the lives of 150,000 Tokyo residents from an unavoidable earthquake with the unexplainable help of an ordinary but unordinary man carries much more meaning than what was unambiguously written down. Super Frog Saves Tokyo, written after the Kobe earthquake, symbolizes the state of Japan during that devastating decade and the means to recuperating. Katagiri’s struggles and instability, the underground, and the worm can be seen as symbols. Along with Katagiri’s struggles of lack of recognition, loneliness, and taking up the dangerous dirty work that his job requires, he suffers a break with reality after a huge amphibian paid
Super Frog Saves Tokyo Response Haruki Murakami’s short story about a mysterious gigantic frog that saves the lives of 150,000 Tokyo residents from an unavoidable earthquake with the unexplainable help of an ordinary but unordinary man carries much more meaning than what was unambiguously written down. Super Frog Saves Tokyo, written after the Kobe earthquake, symbolizes the state of Japan during that devastating decade and the means to recuperating. Katagiri’s struggles and instability, the underground, and the worm can be seen as symbols. Along with Katagiri’s struggles of lack of recognition, loneliness, and taking up the dangerous dirty work that his job requires, he suffers a break with reality after a huge amphibian paid