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The Year Of Spaghetti Short Text Study 2
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The Year of Spaghetti - Short Story Analysis
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Plot
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Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
Exposition
"1971 was the year of Spaghetti. In 1971 I cooked Spaghetti to live, and lived to cook Spaghetti."
Rising Action
"Spring, Summer, and Fall, I cooked away, as if cooking spaghetti were an act of revenge. Like a lonely, jilted girl throwing old love letters into the fireplace, I tossed one handful of spaghetti after another into the pot."
Climax
“At first, I didn't recognize it as the phone ringing. It was more like an unfamiliar memory that had hesitantly slipped in between the layers of air.”
"When I hung up the phone, the circle of light on the floor had shifted an inch or two. I lay down again in that pool of light and resumed staring at the ceiling."
Falling Action
"Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing. Now I regret, a little, that I didn't tell the girl anything."
Resolution
"Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they were exporting in 1971 was really loneliness?"
B
Setting
Secluded Apartment
The Passage of Seasons
Style of Text
- Less known about the character helps to relate to the character
- Murakami's favorite type of text to write are short stories.
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E
Character
- Little information about protagonist
- Few secondary characters
- Seemingly unimportant events reveal more about the protagonist
Theme
Isolation and Individualism
D
Isolation
- spaghetti as a symbol of loneliness and isolation
- The spaghetti would vanish into the night
- The girl would disappear forever in the shadows of 4:30 pm
Individualism
- Self reliant and independent
- Enjoys eating spaghetti by himself
- Thinks that getting involved is going to be more complicated
- Liking loneliness became a habit of the protagonist that it became one of his identity
C
Mood
Peacefulness, Serenity, Anxiousness, Sadness and Isolation