Blog Post 3

(Realized I forgot to do this post) I found Murakami's The Mirror to be quite engaging and rather unique amongst his other works. The reader follows one character throughout the story and the character directly speaks to the reader. This work also contains "detective-fiction" elements as you are trying to figure out the cause and situation the janitor is in. I actually find Murakami's short stories a lot less confusing than his novels as he tends to reveal more of what the theme/idea of the story is.  In The Mirror, the story was ultimately based on the idea that the scariest thing in the world is perhaps oneself. There's an ominous feeling when reading The Mirror; however, there's no actual monster within the setting, it's all in the character's/reader's mind. I think a lot of Murakami's works deal with the happenings in the mind: fear, lust, love, imagination, they all start within and then are exploited in our reality.