II. Coin Locker Babies, Ryu Murakami, 1980, Kodansha International
III.
Two boys when babies where left at the train station locked inside lockers by there mothers. There names were Kikuyuki Sekiguchi, they call him Kiku for short. Once at the orphanage he meets a kid named Hashi and they become friend, both of them have no other friends and are the only ones to survive the coin lockers everyone else died. They get adopted after a few months by Schuichi Kuwayama (new father) and Kazuyo Kuwayama (new mother). Hashi heads for Tokyo without any warning and a year late Kiku heads over himself along with his new mother to find him. His new mother dies and he is left alone in Tokyo in search for his Hashi, he finds him after a lot of searching in a place they call The Market. Here he discovers that Hashi was trying to make a living of of singing and selling himself to other men. Kiku raged tries his hardest to get him out of there but with no success.
Hashi makes a career in singing, through a guy who's known as D, and D promises he will see his mother soon in a TV show. Kiku hears about this and is furious that they would let him see his mother that he never saw and make it into a show so he decides to go over and take Hashi with him, once he gets there he is brought with the news that it was his mother shocked by this he starts to fading away and everything bothered him so he pulled out his shotgun and shot accidentally killed his mother. He was sentenced to 5 years in jail, and while he was here he had a decent life better than expected from a jail. Hashi now becoming famous is marries and is loosing his mind. Hes mentally ill and has the desire to kill at all times, he ends up killing his own wife to satisfy his needs.
IV.
"Hashi! That sound! Its a heartbeat!... Hashi its your mothers heartbeat!" (Murakami 318).
V.
Kiku is in prison and Hashi has gone insane. Hashi is having the a problem remembering a sound they played for them while they were at the hospital when they were younger because they were different than all of the kids at the orphanage. So he comes to Kiku for help by visiting him at the jail and having a talk with him, buts its too late as Kiku remembers when they shut the door at his time was up. I liked this moment because throughout the whole book they talk about this noise that they have been hearing when they were young and how it makes them feel good for some reason. When they revealed it its like a moment you think and you discover that that's all they can remember from their moms, their heart beats when they were doing the wrong thing by putting them in the Coin Lockers
Hashi makes a career in singing, through a guy who's known as D, and D promises he will see his mother soon in a TV show. Kiku hears about this and is furious that they would let him see his mother that he never saw and make it into a show so he decides to go over and take Hashi with him, once he gets there he is brought with the news that it was his mother shocked by this he starts to fading away and everything bothered him so he pulled out his shotgun and shot accidentally killed his mother. He was sentenced to 5 years in jail, and while he was here he had a decent life better than expected from a jail. Hashi now becoming famous is marries and is loosing his mind. Hes mentally ill and has the desire to kill at all times, he ends up killing his own wife to satisfy his needs.
IV.
"Hashi! That sound! Its a heartbeat!... Hashi its your mothers heartbeat!" (Murakami 318).
V.
Kiku is in prison and Hashi has gone insane. Hashi is having the a problem remembering a sound they played for them while they were at the hospital when they were younger because they were different than all of the kids at the orphanage. So he comes to Kiku for help by visiting him at the jail and having a talk with him, buts its too late as Kiku remembers when they shut the door at his time was up. I liked this moment because throughout the whole book they talk about this noise that they have been hearing when they were young and how it makes them feel good for some reason. When they revealed it its like a moment you think and you discover that that's all they can remember from their moms, their heart beats when they were doing the wrong thing by putting them in the Coin Lockers
