For The Hole, I wonder what the black animal represents. The main character seems pretty listless and doesn't assign much of her energy towards any sort of confrontation. She seems to put herself down in comparison to other working women, like her mother in law. (Ex. let's Tomiko do whatever she wants, didn't tell Tomiko about her owing a lot more than she paid, etc.) I wonder if the black animal represents a "monster" leading her to a restricting life (the hole), and if this mirrors the main character conforming to the life/gender role being kind of pushed on her.
For the Twelve Twitter Stories, I was really confused the first three times reading it. I still do not fully understand what was actually happening.However, it was definitely a distinct style of writing, and it seems that each of the stories do not have much to do with each other plot-wise. The third story seemed lighthearted, as it framed literature as a virus, which was intriguing to think about. Did he mean passion/interest for reading spread, or the book's popularity itself? Or a mix of both (or is there no real distinction). For the eel story I genuinely was lost.
In I want to kick you in your back, I like the main character. Hasegawa seems kind of forlorn and extremely aware of the silent pressures and feeling alone even when you're with someone.and struggling with those feelings of alienation (craving human connection yet still trying to respect/protect your identity). This guy is weird, and his room and lifestyle, and generally everything about him is unsettling. For some reason, at first glance I thought it was going to be revealed that he was secretly the model Oli. And I wonder if the main character's interaction with the women and the cameraman(?) was kind of racist, or if it was just some kind of really jarring behavior. The hand feeding the cornflakes scene was really weird, and the way she described their expressions and how they took pictures of her legs seemed very off-putting, as they did not ask, and overall they seemed to be treating her like a spectacle at their amusement.
In People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice, I interpreted the main character to be an asexual or somewhere on the aroace spectrum. He presents high emotional intelligence and sympathy, and is overall a really kind person, always wondering/considering other people's feelings. He also feels things on behalf of others. His relationship with Mugito is something special, as the way he describes her over all the other people in his life has no comparison: it seems like he found his platonic soulmate. He values friendship way more than romantic relationships. Like other main characters in the stories we read for this week, he seems to be an outlier to gender norms found in his immediate/general community (described himself as more feminine or androgynous appearance-wise, and didn't have the same sexual/romantic feelings or experiences like his friend(s) and peers have. His asking out the girl from the club was an attempt at conforming, though his heart is not in it. The club he keeps going to seems to be a safe place where he can escape from some of these social norms.
In Hunchback, the main character Shaka is a character that seeks normalcy beyond the pains to her organs and social life from her disability. She craves experiences of her able-bodied counterparts. I have noticed she also has many different writing mediums which she expresses herself in, and she is a passionate woman in all of them. She kept mentioning/tweeting about wanting abortions, which reflects how she herself wants to have the ability to choose or have more choices that her curved spine took away from her. It was interesting to see the stark contrast between what she was writing/reading in the beginning to her day to day life.
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