Chapter 8

Kafka On The Shore
By: Haruki Murakami

Chapter 8
In chapter eight we encounter another U.S. Army Report on Doctor Shigenori Tsukayama, professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Tokyo Imperial University. He was called to the military hospital to examine the boy who was still in a coma from the rice Bowl Hill Incident. They guess that something had to trigger the unconciousness of al l the children. And that this incident has happened in the world before. they all have taken place a little ways away from the school the children go to and all the children fall and then get up on their own with the lack of memory. This has been the first case that one of the children has not regained their conciousness. We find out that Nakata IS the boy that remained in the coma and although he was in a coma his body reacted the same way. He closed his eyes at night, went to the bathroom etc. One day while the nurse was taking his blood, he bled a lot and a couple of hours later he woke up, not knowing anything. He couldn't recognize his parents, he couldn't read, he didn't even know that Japan even exsisted.

Important Quotes
"He'd returned to this world with his mind wiped clean. The proverbial blank state(68).