A Wild Sheep Chase
Beginning of paper
Boku, thirty years old, is in many respects an average middle-class citizen who, free from excessive financial worries, enjoys the kind of independence his status bestows. A product of 1960’s, he takes endless pleasure in smoking, drinking, and eating in bars, cafes, and restaurants. He dresses w ....
Middle of paper
.... of media-dominated and consumer-orientated contemporary Japanese culture, which is revealed to be under the thumb of the right-wing leader by virtue of his financial holdings; it is this man who indirectly draws Boku into the maelstrom of the sheep chase and robs him of his independence. No wonder, then, that there is no core, only vacuity, to Boku's being. He is literally without a past (or a future, for that matter). Victims of erasure, neither his family nor his divorced wife, for instan ....
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Word count: 1735
Page count: 7 (approximately 250 words per page)
