Kafka

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.

And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.” P.5-6

This quote is significant to the character Kafka. It is significant because Kafka goes through a lot during the book. This quote introduces Kafka’s adventure, when he escapes from his father and is in search for himself. The quote means that you can’t ever be certain of what is going to happen to you, and you can’t chan...

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...person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much a thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half.” P.39

This quote explains Kafka’s view on Ms. Saeki. I think this because he has a strong feeling towards her, even though he had never met her. He was almost “fated” to be with Ms. Saeki, but he also has a feeling that she is his mother. This would make his father’s oedipal curse come true, but he cannot remove himself from her. This quote shows the theory that we all have someone who is fated for us and is waiting. It can also mean that the world is based upon searching for your soul mate.