1. Kafka on the Shore is a novel that takes you through the barriers of reality and into the world of magic realism. In the story there are two main characters who's paths will inevitably meet. Kafka Tamura is a fifteen year old boy from Tokyo who decided to run away from home because of his relationship with his father who was sometimes abusive. Nakata is an elderly man who has a strange role in the story. He is able to talk to cats and they can talk back to him as well. As there lives begin to mesh in the story they find themselves on the search for the gateway to the spiritual realm.
2. I think that a central theme or medium of the story would have to be that sometimes things are much different than what they first seem to be. Throughout the story events unfold that you might think are non relevant but then as you look back and think about what really happen, you understand the true meaning.
3. the tone of the novel is very mysterious and exciting. Because the story is written with magic realism you never know what could happen on the next page. With people talking to cats and others trying to kill them and use them in order to make a flute the story can get confusing at some points.
4. The main literary elements that I could see in this story are foreshadowing, allusion, and magic realism. Magic realism played a huge role in the story. It developed the characters along with the entire storyline.
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