Hello, peeps howz you doing? hoping for the best for you
always!!
Romaaaaance, everyone wanted, some get it and others always
remain with their unfulfilled desire, and few actually realised true love. This
blog post will teach you the mystery of love via a beautiful book
"Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami, he is a great writer, and his work
is always intertwined with mystery, hidden desires, and the complexity of human
feelings one of his best works is Norwegian wood.
Norwegian wood is based on Toru remembering his college
days, he was a quiet, serious young college student in Tokyo who had run away
from his hometown like all of us wanted to run away from our home, and our
problems and wanted to start a new life, that Toru actually did but he failed
when he met Naoko, his dead best friend’s girlfriend what happened where they
lead well read it yourself. here, I am writing what I realize and understand
from that.
Haruki Murakami wrote the book with so much clarity you immediately
connected with the book, in starting you felt quite dark and depressed that how
the characters were but as you move with every chapter everything comes into
place, whenever he writes confusion and chaos occurs in the character’s mind
you as a reader exactly know what that character was thinking and how he will
react. He also did full justice with the environment I loved most about the
surrounding description focusing on the small description of wind, refreshing
mountains and use of different music to connect with the environment all made
this book aesthetically perfect.
But!!! This is not what Author wants to convey - when I
first read this book I fall in love with the writing style and story but when I
reread it again, I found the hidden story inside those words, there are not one
story just about Toru but four different types of love which everyone
fortunately or unfortunately encountered once in their life-
1. Lust Love – Toru and Naoko, Lust always desire the body,
and wanted to touch physically but never touched each other’s soul. That’s
where everyone misunderstands this lust into love and leads to chaos, that’s
how Naoko and Toru were, trying to complete their incomplete part i.e., Kizuki
but failed even though love was their forced nature and sympathy were there
too.
2. Unconditional Love- Hatsumi and Nagasawa, Romance novels
mostly romanticize unconditional love, badass male and the female lead that
bear everything for him look familiar, but they failed to tell the female lead
come to a male character for her own selfish reason for her own happiness,
right?!, Hatsumi an innocent soul believed in these unconditional love stories.
3. Indecisive Love- Naoko and Kizuki, can end up well if he
sees themselves together, if they really loved each, and if they were not
indecisive.
4. Conditional Love- Love brings freedom but it brings a lot
of conditions, you know terms and conditions applied, that's how Toru and
Midori were, the only love story that sounds real and practical, true friends
showing their realities, their insecurities, and everything. Every time
Midori's character came in the book, I enjoyed her so much she brings a smile,
a warm irresistible smile. She is the most beautiful soul that doesn't want
anything she is complete in herself, she did everything that the world wants
from her, and when her turn came, she won Toru, a pure Toru with no exchange of
bodies but only soul and thoughts, that’s the Toru and Midori were.
Conditionally Yours!!!!
In the end,
the only conclusion that came to my mind is to find your Midori and life will
become the most beautiful tragedy 💓
Peace!!! With terms and conditions applied*.
