I wanted to write the blog post for the stories we had to read for class on 27 March for the blog due in a few days.
The First Bakery Attack is one of those short Murakami stories that builds up to a conflict, has a simple resolution, and then people basically move about their business. I am personally not a fan of this format of story because I think it resolves too fast. This is the same kind of story that we saw in Sydney Green Street and other stories we had to read that day. I did like that The Second Bakery Attack was an extension on the first one, and I didn’t expect the wife to be the kind to be ready for some kind of crime, and the ending was funny. 50 BIG MACS? Wow.
The last story, A Small, Good Thing, was weird. It’s weird that Ann wanted to kill the baker but then the baked goods are enough to convince her not to, and Howard is just there. I didn’t really get a sense of time until the end when the baker said that the cake was three days old. Intentionally, it felt like the story was going on forever and time didn’t exist, which is some of the feeling I imagine a parent goes through when they’re seeing their own child on a hospital bed.
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