MODULE 2:

RUNAWAY
1. Why do Children
or Teenagers run
away from home?
2.Why are Friends
Important to
Children or
Teenagers?
3. When do you know
that certain
Friendships are more
important to others?
 The Boy Named
Crow
[Excerpt fron Kafka
on the Shore]
By Haruki
Murakami
(Japan)
SUMMARY:
Meanwhile, The Boy Named Crow
is Kafka’s alter ego that holds his
better, stronger, more sane
qualities. It is his projection of his
desirable self, which he envisions
as a friend for the sake of easier
communication to Crow, his friend.
 The main character in this excerpt, Kafka
wanted to run away from his father because
he wanted to find a job in other for him to get
his own money. Soon after, Kafka found a
friend named Crow.
 Typically, this crow, his friend was
able to give him advice. Advice that
Kafka used for him to depict himself
in running away from his father. Crow
interrogates Kafka to make sure that
he has enough money, stolen from
Kafka’s father, for his journey and to
ensure that Kafka understands the
seriousness of the step he’s about to
take.
Thou Kafka is
apprehensive about
the fate that lies in
store for him, Kafka
believes that the risks
are worth it.
In fact, Kafka is retelling this story after
the events have taken place, as he
foretells: “On my fifteenth birthday, I’ll
run away from home, journey to a far-off
town and live in the corner of a small
library” Both Kafka and the boy named
Crow equate this journey with the
metaphor of a “sandstorm” of fate, which
is Crow stating that..
"You're going to be the world's toughest
fifteen-year-old,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."
Appreciation of
the Story
In our life especially if you are a
teenager friendships are very
important, no matter what happen
and problems has come to you. Your
friends are always on your side to
heal you. The important of friends to
our life is they are the one who make
us happy when we are in pain and
they make us strong when we are
weak.
The advantage of having friends is when
your friends can protect and help you
every time you need and the
disadvantage of having friends is
sometimes friends are bad influence
because they are the one who influence
you to do something like engage with
smoke , drinking alcohol and take
prohibited drugs.
1.How could you describe the
boy named crow?
2.What is Kafka Planning to do
on this 15th birthday?
3. Who is "the boy named
Crow"?
4. What is "Karma"?