Week 3 - A Wild Sheep Chase

A Wild Sheep Chase : Haruki Murakami’s A symbolic book from the first page to the end. Murakami make a immensely popular book in Japan. I have never read of his books nor heard of Murakami. “The Wild Sheep Chase” is narrated by a modern Japanese guy. Average man overall that is divorced and works a everyday job. Everything seemed very monotoned even if something exciting happening the character would just accept it and move on. Very little emotion in general. Being a hybrid of mythology and mystery this novel begins and ends with little climax but there is a story that develops over time. His mans goal in the novel is to find the sheep with the red star on his back. Starting a surreal journey that brings him to the sheep but his inner demons as well. The main character was almost annoying with his lack of emotion told life and people around him. Even forward the end when he begins to lose people the response is anything but normal. There are no stakes in this book, whether they be lives, reputations, jobs, money, nothing that anyone really cares about enough so that it would affect them in any way to lose anything. Murakami is known for this I guess after doing some research on the writer himself. When I read I want to fill a connection with the character and in this book I don’t. He seems to lack life in his story which I do believe is what Murakami brings up in his book. A contrast of characters that are not complex, deep, and that don’t have a realistic or interesting life. By far a interesting read but I would not choose to read it again.