Kafka on the Shore Lesson Plan

One of the first people to help Nakata get to Takamatsu is Hagita, who engages Nakata in a philosophical conversation about intelligence and history. At one point, he says that everything is changing: "The information revolution, stock options, floating assets, occupational restructuring, multinational corporations--what's good, what's bad. Boundaries between things are disappearing all the time" (p. 191). How does the novel reflect this sentiment in today's readings?

Liminality is a major theme of Kafka on the Shore, and in this section the theme is developed extensively. Students may bring up Kafka's direct mention of the boundary between the ghost of 15 year old...