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Book 3, Chapter 15
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Reality and Subjective Experience
Free Will
Desire and Irrationality
The Personal Impact of War
Social Alienation
Summary
Analysis
Ushikawa contacts Toru and requests to visit him at his house. They meet, and Ushikawa informs Toru that he will facilitate communication between Toru and Kumiko. Additionally, Ushikawa discloses that he has come across the contract regarding Toru’s arrangement with the company that purchased the property containing the well. Both Ushikawa and Noboru are intrigued that Toru secured such an agreement. Ushikawa assures Toru that Noboru is willing to offer substantial money to buy him out of the property. As Ushikawa departs, he promises Toru that he will be in contact soon with a means of communicating with Kumiko.
Although he is repulsive, Ushikawa is resourceful. In a short time, he has managed to gather all the information he needs to bargain with Toru. Additionally, it sounds like Noboru is getting increasingly desperate and his motivations are clearer here than before. More than anything, he does not want Toru to have the Miyawaki house. Evidently, something about the house bothers Noboru, which appears to extend beyond mere superstition.
Themes
