u/Ledwis

My main question is: is the book always going to be completely disorienting or am I eventually going to learn to “navigate” the book more?

Also is it the intended experience that I literally don’t know what’s going on? Not just that I don’t understand why orin is talking about why he is scared of cockroaches but sometimes i literally don’t understand what’s going on in a passage and it looks like word soup.

Any help would be appreciated

SPOILERS FOR 1Q84

What do you think ushikawa’s role in the story was? This is something that I have pondered since finishing the story. Tengo and aomame are the central characters and then ushikawa is tagged on for a reason that I can’t comprehend. No major reveals come out of him other than Tengo’s mother’s fate, but there are so many other unanswered mysteries in the book such as Tengo’s girlfriend’s fate, so why introduce ushikawa? Maybe he is some sort of metatextual comment on how Tengo and Aoname’s stories are no longer about the cult and now the cult is separated into its own storyline. It would be great to hear your opinions.