Critical Essay about The Boy Named Crow

Critical Essay

The Boy Named Crow

     The Boy Named Crow is an Excerpt from Kafka on the Shore by a japanese author, Haruki Murakami.He is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. His work has been described as 'easily accessible, yet profoundly complex.His work is a 2002 novel that has been published in Shinchosa,Japan. 

     This work is one of the best novel that we can recommend to many teenager who try or planning to run away from their home.

       The boy named Kafka is planning to run away from his home in Tokyo. He talks about his plans with his imaginary friend which is the  Crow. Tomorrow is his fifteenth birthday and he has taken amount of money from his father. Crow warns Kafka that he can expect many trials on his journey, and he must be the strongest and toughest teenager ever to survive it.

     The excerpt from Kafka on the shore entitled, The Boy Named Crow has a well structure text. I like the way he compare fate into sandstorm. It is well explained in the text. It is chronologically arranged that can easily understand by the readers. No  confusion  because the words used by the author is just simple, no flowering word and no jargons.

       The topic has been portrayed as a major concern in the teenager who try to run away from their home. Nowadays, When a child has a problem in their house, they try to run away because they feel that it is the only way to solve it. Even if they know they cannot sustain in the up coming problems. The topic is critically analyzed to create more knowledge and ideas.

       This topic appeals to many teenager who is planning to run away. This story can enlighten the mind of many teenager. This will help them to think rationally and critically on what decision they will choose. If we will think or understand this deeply we can get many lessons. This lesson will help us to be more practical and to be a better person.

Riddles

Bugtong/ Riddles

Bugtong, bugtong

Matigas at maumbok
labas pasok sa madilim na butas

-Cotton buds

Bugtong, bugtong

Ang ulo'y nalalaga ang katawan ay pagalagala

-Sandok

Bugtong, bugtong,

Sinampal ko muna

bago inalok

-Sampalok

Fray Botod

Title: Fray Botod

Author: Graciano Lopez Jaena

Main Character: Fray Botod - a cruel, greedy, lazy, and lustful friar.

Settings: Philippines during the Spanish Era

Point of View: Second Person Point of View 

Theme: Satire on the Spanish Friars

Summary:

Graciano Lopez Jaena's Fray Botod presents the cliché Spanish monk who uses religion as a device for mistreating others so as to satisfy his hunger for sustenance, cash and ladies. This minister generalization later turned into the image of the Spanish system in the Philippines. The representations in Fray Botod , told through a discourse between a Filipino and his liberal Spanish companion, delineate the despicable character of the monk through different circumstances. These circumstances incorporate having shameless associations with young ladies called canding - canding, undermining and rebuffing a few understudies from the University of Manila, ignoring his obligations as an area minister for betting, directing his business unreasonably, and uncouthly rebuffing an Indio worker who neglected to work at his bequest for three days in light of his wiped out spouse.

Comment:
This story will help us to realize that even before there are already discrimination happening in our country. There are people who are taking advantage other people because they are in position. People who use their power to abuse many poor people instead of helping them.

Overall,I like the story. It has a meaningful story, many people can relate to this. I would definitely recommend and ask others to read this because it has many lesson they can get.

Dead Stars

Title: Dead Stars

Author: Paz Marquez Benitez

SUMMARY:

            Paz Marquez Benitez wrote a story that any Generation-Z teenager will never understand. Dead Stars, a story of pain and sorrow that love can give to an everlasting life of happiness.

ANALYSIS:

            In the story, dead stars symbolize a dream for something that is nonexistent. The guy loved the girl. She was his dream, his star. He thought there was love there. But like a dead star which is so far away, and whose shine could actually be the leftover traveling light from it, he was a long way from getting the girl, and the love he thought was possible, never was.

MAIN CHARACTERS:

            Esperanza – fiancée of Alfredo for four years

            Julia Salas – the daughter of Judge Del Valle; a young girl out-of-town

            Alfredo Salazar – the main in the story; a bachelor over thirty

            Don Julian – the father of Alfredo Salazar

            Carmen – the younger sister of Alfredo Salazar

PLOT:

A.    EXPOSITION

Alfredo met Julia Salas in a out of town business. But rather Alfredo and his father, Don Julian, became close to Judge del Valle. In time, Alfredo fell in love with Julia. Julia did not have any affection to Alfredo. But Alfredo has an on-going relationship back at home.

B.    RISING ACTION

At the azotea, Don Julian and Carmen talks concerning the on-going relationship of Alfredo Salazar and Esperanza. Perhaps, the relationship between Alfredo and Esperanza for four years gradually ready to disappear. Don Julian once said “I supposed long-engaged people are like that; warm now, cool tomorrow. I think they are oftener cool than warm. The very fact that an engagement has been allowed to prolong itself argues certain placidity of temperament--or of affection--on the part of either, or both.'' Everyone takes it for granted that Alfredo will eventually marry Esperanza. But although he is ashamed to admit it, the intensity of his passion for Esperanza has faded and he is attracted to Julia, whom he meets at a dinner party. But he is aware that all his loved ones-including Julia-would disapprove of his failure to honor his understanding with Esperanza. So he and Esperanza get married and have a family.

D.    CLIMAX

Then, eight years later, he goes on a business trip to the town where Julia, still unmarried, lives. He goes to visit Julia, whom he has never forgotten.

E.    FALLING ACTION

But he is surprised to find that he no longer feels attracted to her. He compares the memory of his love for her to dead stars, whose glow is still visible from the earth for years after they are gone.

F.    RESOLUTION

Remember love is a choice not an obligation. Make sure to lend touch, gifts, time, acts of service and last but not the least words of compliment. Every person understands love best when it is communicated in one of those ways. 

Point of view

3rd person point of view

Conflict

Man vs Circumstances

My Comments to the whole story

''Dead Stars'' by Paz Marquez Benitez is addressed from one love to a woman to another woman. The story talks about forbidden love. This is one of the best story we could recommend in some teenager because it can help them to be more serious in love. Nowadays, many millennial didn't know the true meaning of love, that love is just not about romantic but having commitment. Overall the story is good, the character, and the way author wrote this.

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