My favorite story program
"The Elephant Vanishes" by Le Haruki Murakami
1] Vijaybhai opinion (Speaker/Translater)
Vijaybhai starts his talk. -Within this lockdown, he says, he has found time to read a lot in the literature. They have the opportunity to talk about science and the test of God, the questions they read in literature, and the literature they are fighting against. He says reading literature closely is reading. He also mentions his friend Hasmukhbhai Rawal. Telling this story, he says that the stories of Murakami are stories in the first male singular .These stories contain a lot of juices and music. He says remembering Suresh Joshi. આપણી આજુબાજુનુ આત્મસાત કરી શકાતું નથી. જે પામવા ઇચ્છીએ છીએ તે મળે અને હાસ થાય, ત્યાં જિંદગી પૂરી થઈ જાય. Telling the story, Vijaybhai says that at the beginning of the story, Kathak wakes up early and reads the newspaper, 'That elephant has disappeared'. He became more interested in the news and read the whole article. It is a private company in Tokyo. It sells all the animals of the private zoo. In which all the animals are carried. But no one takes an elephant. Because this elephant was old. So what to do with this old elephant now? The municipality and the mayor decided to keep the elephant in the house. He is kept in an elephant house and is kept by a caretaker.
The author sees the elephant and the keeper every day from the back of the elephant house. Such similarity between the two seems wonderful to the author. Seeing such loving nature of both of them, they understand the intimacy of man and animal. One day he sees an elephant and a keeper, he thinks something new. The distance between the elephant and the keeper decreases and both shrink. Thus gradually both of them disappear. The author has seen the elephant and its keeper in this scene. Everyone thinks these two have run away. But what were the footprints of the elephant. The chain was also locked by him. The key was also in its place. Both the elephant and the keeper are groomed. But they do not meet. In a few days people forget all this. But this has a huge impact on the author. The disappearance of the elephant and its keeper has a profound effect on the author. He had seen this thing with his own eyes. He also explained this to a female friend. But he was not ready to believe this thing.Regarding this, Vijaybhai says that the man who has dominated the natural world is not right to some extent. They say it is a matter of balance that surrounds us. There was no balance between Kathak and female friend, there was no balance between the mayor and the municipality. There was no balance between all of them. There was only a balance between the elephant and the keeper. So we also cannot establish such a balance with each other. Which needs to be established. William Dalthy says that literature that balances imbalances in human life is the best. Vijaybhai says that the feelings of the men who have become equal disappear in this stubborn society. They have put more emphasis on balance and imbalance. An imbalance between man and nature, an imbalance between a person and a person, etc. According to Vijaybhai, the disappearance of the elephant is a funny thing. Thus the story is funny but illustrates the balance between nature and man.
2] Others opinions
Commenting on this, Dilipbhai Barad says that Murakami's short stories are really modern stories. The last of all his stories is titled The Elephant vanishes. The story begins with a newspaper reading and one of them begins with a narrator. In this style Murakami raises the narrator. The first narration casts doubt on the whole narration. He gave a good example of life of pi that a man lived with a tiger for years inside the sea.
When interviewed they say whether you tell such stories. This is a story told to a small child. The author of life of pi himself becomes Tiger. We see nature as a person in bliss. It makes the mind happy. They also give a good example of the robot force's poem "પોષાતું તે મારતું".
Dr. Jayeshbhai Bhogayat has also confirmed that he was listening as a teacher. How to start and what to say if he discusses the story in class. He also gave an example of Mahabharata. How much pleasure the author gives you as a work of art in their opinion. That's important. They state that there should be a close relationship between the elephant and the keeper in the society.
3] My opinion
I tell from this story that Murakami has kept the elephant in the center. The elephant is a big animal and its disappearance is a big deal. The elephant is taken as a metaphor in this story. The intimate relationship between man and animal is shown. The Man can deal with an animal like that. He considers everything his own animal. The carkeeper accompanies the elephant until it dies. The two disappear together. That is, death occurs. When there is an imbalance between man to man. So what a wonderful balance this is between animal and man.The second also seems to be that Murakami portrays the elephant as natural and man as a social animal. That is, both natural and social things are interconnected. There should be a balance between the two. But man living in society does a lot of damage to nature. That is, an imbalance has arisen between them. Man has to take care of nature in the same way that a carkeeper takes care of an elephant. You have to walk with nature, you have to take care of its essence. Otherwise, like an elephant, it will disappear.
The story reminds me of a movie called The Tiger. Whose writer and director is Hoon Jung Park. This movie also has to have uniformity and balance between tiger and man. The two could understand each other's emotional language. Tiger also rescues this man's boy. And finally both die together. In which his love for that animal is seen. Even though a predator can understand a person's feelings well. So it can be said that there is uniformity or balance between man and animal.
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