Watanabe and Muyue often go to play table tennis. On a pleasant afternoon in May before the college entrance examination, Muyue invited Watanabe to play table tennis. One day, Muyue played seriously and his eyes were subtle. He won Watanabe. However, that night, Muyue committed suicide in her garage.
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Lush years, life is speechless. I tried to read it. When I read it here, I tried to guess why Muyue did it. I want to see myself at the age of 16 and 17. It seems that I want to commit suicide vaguely in my mind. I'm not surprised at all. After all, I am young and ignorant and don't understand the meaning of death.
Later, I experienced some things to understand that death is not the opposite of life, but always a part of life. Death is a matter of time, and death is profound for anyone.
Naoko's life has suffered a great blow since Muyue's death. Naoko is used to the boy being with him all the time. After Muyue's death, Naoko was in a trance, sometimes hysterical and sometimes very quiet.
Muyue's death also had a great impact on Watanabe. Muyue couldn't find her place in the next ten months, so she just went to a university and slept with several girls ... I think Watanabe is empty at the moment.
Muyue always keeps a distance from people and things around him. He doesn't want anyone to enter his heart except Naoko.
A year later, Watanabe met Naoko by chance. At this time, Naoko has become demure and shy, with watery eyes. The next day, Watanabe and Naoko began a tryst until Naoko's 20th birthday. Naoko was very wet that time, and Watanabe made Naoko reach the climax, which was the only climax in Naoko's life. Unexpectedly, Naoko disappeared the next day.
Naoko actually went to a psychiatric nursing home, which is an isolated peach blossom garden and self-sufficient. Of course, he can't be found in remote forests and Watanabe.
In this way, Watanabe and Naoko lost contact, and Watanabe's life fell into a new confusion. It is necessary to introduce the background of Haruki Murakami's creation of Norwegian Forest.
In 1960s, Japan entered a highly developed capitalist society. With the rapid development of economy, people's mental crisis is increasing day by day. The richness of material life and the expansion of people's desires have caused a serious imbalance in the spiritual world and produced a confused generation. In fact, there are people in America who are called the beat generation. That was the era of Beatles music.
In the book, one person has to be introduced. He is Watanabe's college roommate Yongze, a rich second generation, an exquisite egoist, a selfish man, a gentleman with high IQ and emotional intelligence. He has a clear positioning for himself, is handsome and courageous, and has won the favor of girls around him. Yongze once said a classic sentence to Watanabe: "Don't feel sorry for yourself. Feeling sorry for yourself is what despicable cowards do." It can be said that Yongze is a highly self-disciplined person, and he always does what he wants by hook or by crook.
Yongze looks down on everyone around him except Watanabe. Their acquaintance is also quite interesting, because one day when Watanabe was reading a book, Yongze happened to pass by and fell in love with it. They became friends because of a book called The Great Gatsby.
In the following time, because Yongze and Watanabe have some similarities in their hearts, they often go to bars for recreation, mainly looking for prey and sleeping with beautiful girls ... There are countless examples in the book.
Haruki Murakami has many similar descriptions in the book. In response to some people saying that Norwegian Wood is a pornographic book, Murakami retorted in an interview that the sex scene is not sexy at all. "Some people even say it is pornography." He went on to say:
China's China is a country deeply influenced by Confucian culture. By 2 1 century, many universities in China had no open education courses. Talking about sex is as sensitive as politics, which is really puzzling.
Next, Watanabe learned that Naoko lived in a mental nursing home far away in the mountains. In the following days, we communicated with each other and established mutual inner trust. Watanabe went to a nursing home in the mountains and forgot Naoko several times. During this period, the two people got along well, which shows that people need to keep warm with each other.
When I arrived at Naoko's residence, I met Naoko's roommate Reiko Kobayakawa Ishida. Xiao longed to be a professional pianist, but was forced to give up because of mental illness. Naoko likes a song "Norwegian Forest" very much, and Ishida often chats with her.
There is another incident about Reiko Kobayakawa Ishida's sister-in-law. She was insane by a 13-year-old lesbian who was studying piano. At that time, Reiko Kobayakawa Ishida was over 30 years old, and I didn't know what the author thought of homosexuality.
For this reason, I checked the number of homosexuals first published in China in 2004: According to the statistics of the Ministry of Health, the number of gay men is about 5 million ~100000, and the number of lesbians has not been published, but I don't think it is necessary to write this passage in this article, which has little to do with the theme the author wants to express.
Confucius said, "There are 300 poems. In a word, they are innocent." Since homosexuality has entered poetry, it can be seen that homosexuality is a very pure emotion in his eyes. He didn't drive it, but homosexuality was not considered abnormal at that time.
What we don't know is not untrue.
When I visited Naoko in Watanabe. One night, Naoko quietly went out and hanged himself with a rope prepared in advance in the depths of the jungle.
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Next, Watanabe is more closed to himself. I thought he would kill himself and die for love, but thank God he didn't. He packed his bags and began to travel long distances, sleeping wherever he went, doing odd jobs without money and experiencing physical fatigue and hunger. I think Watanabe wants to say goodbye to his past memories through this behavior.
But it was all in vain until he met the green child.
Kobayashi Midoriko and Watanabe are freshmen in Class Two of Drama History. His family runs Kobayashi Bookstore in Otsuka, Tokyo. Optimistic and cheerful girl, very emotional, like to be angry with others, love coquetry. I can cook Kansai-style dishes and have the habit of smoking.
During this period, Watanabe was very depressed and confused. On the one hand, I can't forget Naoko's lingering pain and tenderness, on the other hand, I can't resist Naoko's bold confession and charming vitality.
For example, the following is a transcript of a conversation between Qing Zi and Watanabe:
Watanabe is obsessed with Naoko who died, and Yoko loves Watanabe very much, which can be reflected in every word and deed, which makes Watanabe very entangled and doesn't know what to do. It seems that I am caught in a fog and can't see the direction of choice clearly.
You are always curled up in your own world, but I have been knocking at the door to call you. So you quietly raised your eyelids and immediately recovered. Naoko's confession to Watanabe was not affirmed, disheartened and disappeared.
This move is very effective for Watanabe. After Watanabe found Naoko lost, his favorite person was Yoko, so he began to look for Yoko through various methods, but all of a sudden, Yoko seemed to come out of thin air and could not be found anywhere. The author didn't tell us whether they finally came together, but it doesn't matter, does it?
Everyone has his own forest. Maybe we've never been there, but it's always there, always. What has been lost is lost, and the people you meet will meet again.
A book, recalling fleeting time and commemorating people's youth.