Kafka: main character
- tough fifteen year old who has run away from home in search of himself.
Symbol: the crow that pops up throughout the book telling kafka he is a "tough fifteen year old"
Satoru Nakata: Nakata lost many of his mental faculties when, as one of sixteen schoolchildren out on a mushroom-gathering field-trip toward the end of World War II, he was rendered unconscious following a mysterious flash of light in the sky.
* Satoru Nakata's experience could be from a UFO. He is able to talk to cats, as far as Kafka knows.
Oshima: kafkas friend
Hoshino: bus driver who befriends Kafka on his journey
Sakura: friend of Kafka. Forms relationship with him. Finds out later possibly his sister.
*cats continuously show up for reasons I don't know yet.
Satura is able to communicate with these cats(Goma,Mimi,Okawa,Toro,Otsuka)
Kafka goes through a journey. The garden. The book store becoming a peaceful place for him. Foreshadowing?
** the kids from the field trip made Kafka sad. We were able to see his compassionate side not only with this but with his interactions with Sakura.
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