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f. Artistic
Artistic refers to having or showing natural skill in the arts, eg painting, music or dance “Artistic”. Saeki is an artistic woman. She
expresses her feeling by writing a poem. She is able to set the poem into music and sing it. The poem of Kafka on the Shore is her poem which was
written to express the feeling of losing her sweetheart. Besides, she can play a piano. As what Oshima said to Kafka:
“When she was nineteen Miss Saeki wrote a poem, set it to music, and played the piano and sang it. It was a melancholy melody, innocent, and
lovely. The lyrics, on the hand, were symbolic, contemplative, and hard to figure it out. The contrast gave the song a kind of spirit and immediacy. “
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g. A loner
Loner is a person who avoids the company of others “Loner”. Saeki is a loner. She did not try to socialize with other people. She only
talked to her assistant, Oshima and sometimes to the Library’s visitors. Besides, she is more comfortable to be alone than socialize. Her
socialization is limited only to Oshima, Kafka, and the visitors of the Komura Private Memorial Library. That is why she spends her life to
manage the library.
h. Egocentric
Egocentric refers to considering only oneself “Egocentric”. Someone who is not egocentric will not leave her child. Saeki was an
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38 egocentric woman because she considers that her world was end since the
death of her sweetheart. The only one meaningful person in her life was only her sweetheart who was dead long time ago. Whereas, there are many
people who are more meaningful than only mourn for the death of her sweetheart.
“A long time ago I abandoned someone I shouldn’t have… It was someone I should never have abandoned p.462.” It is the confession of
Saeki to Kafka, the child she abandoned. At that time she was egocentric. Kafka was four years old when Saeki left him. He was still little. He really
needed affection from her mother, even until he is fifteen years old and decided to look for his mother. Saeki’s affection is very important for
Kafka. However, finally Saeki realizes her mistake and confess that she should never have abandoned Kafka.
i. Mystical
Mystical refers to having hidden meaning or spiritual power “Mystical”. Saeki is actually a mystical person. Saeki’s spirit can leave
her body while she is sleeping and becomes a fifteen year old girl who looks at the painting of Kafka on the Shore. There are three events in
which Kafka sees Saeki comes to his room at night.
“I don’t know if ghost is the right word, but it definitely isn’t something in this world….
She’s about my age, fifteen or sixteen. I’m guessing fifteen...She’s wearing a blue dress with a billowing hem that’s just the right length…” p.228
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39 That is the first time Kafka sees the girl who comes to his room. The girl
comes to his room again a night later.
“The girl is seated at the desk, head in hands, gazing at the painting. She’s wearing the same clothes as last night. Even if I squint and look hard, this
time it’s too dark to make out her face.”
p.251 Kafka still does not realize who she is until the next night she comes
to his room again.
“It’s 2:47 when I notice the girl’s here- a little earlier than last night... “She has on her usual light blue dress and is sitting there the same as
before, head in hands, silently gazing at the painting of Kafka on the Shore…
I don’t know if she can see me, but I want her to. I pray she notices me and knows I exist. “Miss Saeki” I repeat. I can’t keep myself from saying her
name. Maybe she’ll be frightened by my voice and
leave the room, never to return” p.274
Finally Kafka realizes that the girl who comes to his room is Saeki. When she comes for the first and second time, she appears in a figure of a
fifteen-year old girl who wears a blue dress with a billowing hem. In this condition, Saeki’s spirit leaves her own body to appear as a figure of a
fifteen-year old girl. At the third she comes in her actual figure of present Saeki who wears
the same dress. In this condition, Saeki’s spirit does not leave her body, however she has an experience of “out of body” or OBEs.
The phenomenon of “out of body “ experiences OBEs are personal
experiences during which people feel as if they are perceiving the physical world from a location outside of their physical bodies Levitan and
LaBerge, 1991.
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40 Therefore, Levitan and LaBerge 1991 concludes that the human
consciousness separating from the human body and travelling in a discorporate form of physical world.
B. How Saeki Manifests Her Love
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