1. Kafka On The Shore
Chapter 10 – Talking Cats
CD3 Tracks 9-13

2. Question 1
Who is Nakata talking to at the start of the chapter?

3. Question 2
How is the first conversation?

4. Question 3
What is the difference in communicating with Siamese cats?

5. Question 4
Who is Mimi?

6. Question 5
What does Mimi find out?

7. Question 6
What does the man who has been talking to cats look like?

8. Question 7
What is his persona?

9. What do you think is going on here?
Question 8
“Nakata let his body relax, switched off his mind, allowing things to flow through him. This was natural for him, something he'd done ever since he was a child, without a second thought. Before long the borders of his consciousness fluttered around, just like the butterflies. Beyond these borders lay a dark abyss. Occasionally his consciousness would fly over the border and hover over that dizzying, black crevass. But Nakata wasn't afraid of the darkness or how deep it was. And why should he be? That bottomless world of darkness, that weighty silence and chaos, was an old friend, a part of him already.” –p90
What do you think is going on here?