Friday, March 16, 2007

Polar Opposite


*“A Wild Sheep Chase”, author Murakami always uses “Polar Opposite” in this fiction. As we already know what Polar means, this world has two polars that are North and South polar which are totally in the opposite side of each other. We can use this phrase to compare two things which absolutely separate or different to each other. Then we can find these style when we read in this novel. Sometime we can meet these in one to next episode, sometime in next chapter, sometime in next pharagraph, and sometime also in the next line.

Murakami also uses the randomness theory to write his novel. In chapter to chapter, he always write as the thing that he wants it to be. We can assume from the first chapter in the first episode that he mentions about the woman’s funeral. In this chapter, it has a lot of detail to make the audience to convince by his story. However, it seems to be no more continuing story after that. He absolutely changes his topic to describe in the man’s life in chapter two – espeacially in his marriage problem. These style can be assume to be the Polar Opposite too. Because Murakami try to make a fragment in his novel. To separate it into an opposite side.

In the emotion of A Wild Sheep Chase, Murakami also plays with audiences’ mind. We can find two major emotion in his novel. First, it is the adventure theme which we can see a lot of roles in this fiction are explain by exciting tone. Such as, when the Secretary comes into the man’s office. It seems to be an exaggerate explanation from the real man’s body. The another theme is boredom. Sometime Murakami tries to give audiences too many details to make people feel deeply believe in this boredom situation.

The Polar Opposite is on of the most significant style which is very impress an audience to read “A Wild Sheep Chase”. Furthermore, this style can motivate an audience’s energy to pay attention in his novel.

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