Perception In The Dancing Dwarf

Perception can be misleading. What you see, isn’t what it really is. The short stories within “The Elephant Vanishes”: “The Second Bakery Attack” makes us question is everything correlated. Are things just building up to a certain climax waiting for the axe to fall? Or is everything just happening at random, without any sequences at all. As for the second short story: “The Dancing Dwarf” it demonstrated how our imagination can change the perspective of a single event, whether or not the actions are justified as logical. Murakami has portrayed the characters of the story to believe everything that happened is always in sequence, never once question the reality of the situation. As Murakami has depicted our lives as solely human beings are accustomed to find ways of explaining certain events.

Murakami also insert his thoughts on how the society perceives, using correlation instead of logic, the book quoted “Personally break the curse” (Second Bakery Attack, P42) and “Attack another bakery. Right away. Now. It’s the only way” (Second Bakery Attack, P43). The quotes shows how people believe one thing triggers the other, which isn’t

“Why my wife owned a shotgun, I had no idea. Or Ski-Mask. Neither of us had ever skied. But she didn’t explain and I didn’t ask.” (Second Bakery Attack, P44). Murakami has expounded the notion that even the most dangerous object, people won’t even question. As shown in our Society, we lack the ability to reject blind faith, thus allowing us to follow rules and the structure of our political routine, just like robots. People do things, just because they were told to do. Our society runs in the form of a hierarchy, where there is always an authoritative figure commanding us in whatever we choose to do. For an example, one would be doing taxes, where we didn’t know what our money is spent for. People are being oppressed, in thinking that it’s for their greater