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Kafka’s Sister
Setsuko Okamochi teaches elementary school. During the war, children from Tokyo were temporarily relocated into Setsuko’s class in the countryside, where it was safer. Nakata was one of those students. Setsuko remains shaken by the accident that rendered Nakata unconscious, known as the “Rice Bowl Hill Incident.” She reveals in a letter to Dr. Nakazawa that she feels guilty because she believes that the strange incident was somehow related to a sexual dream she had had the night before.
Setsuko Okamochi Quotes in Kafka on the Shore
The Kafka on the Shore quotes below are all either spoken by Setsuko Okamochi or refer to Setsuko Okamochi. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 12
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I didn’t cry at all. I already knew that somewhere, on some distant battlefield, my husband would lose his life. Ever since the year before, when all those things I just wrote about took place—that erotic dream my period starting ahead of time, hitting Nakata, the children falling into that mysterious coma—I’d accepted my husband’s death as inevitable, as something fated to be. So news of his death merely confirmed what I already knew.
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Setsuko Okamochi Quotes in Kafka on the Shore
The Kafka on the Shore quotes below are all either spoken by Setsuko Okamochi or refer to Setsuko Okamochi. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 12
Quotes
I didn’t cry at all. I already knew that somewhere, on some distant battlefield, my husband would lose his life. Ever since the year before, when all those things I just wrote about took place—that erotic dream my period starting ahead of time, hitting Nakata, the children falling into that mysterious coma—I’d accepted my husband’s death as inevitable, as something fated to be. So news of his death merely confirmed what I already knew.
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