Being original (Norwegian Wood)

When Nagasawa and Watanabe are talking about the books they like to read or the ones they have read. Watanabe tells Nagasawa that what he reads is not fashionable, so he tells him: “If you only read what everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking”(p.31).

 When I read this quote I was paralyzed for a few seconds, I had never thought it this way but it is kind of trued. When something is popular at a time like books, TV series, music, sports, etc. we kind of channel into that fashion, and become kind of brained clones. All watching the same, reading the same, doing the same, THINKING the same (as Nagasawa says).

 I agree with what Nagasawa tells to Watanabe, though I think it’s okay to do some things others do, we should also do things not many are doing, even if this is listening to different music, or reading old fashioned or unknown books.

Vocabulary

Barrette

-A clasp for holding a woman's or girl's hair in place.

-"She wore a big, brown barrette"

Leisure

-Freedom from the demands of work or duty.

- Time you take off to do your hobbies.

-"All the leisure spots were crowded"

Hose

-Flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point.

- Plastic tube used to conduct water to a specific point.

-"He led a rubble hose from the exhaust pipe of his N-360 to a window"

Revved

-To increase the revolutions per minute of (an engine, motor, etc

- To accelerate or intensify something.

-"taped over the gap in the window and revved the engine".

Note: all the first definitions of these vocabulary words were retrieved from thefreedictionary.com or dictionary.reference.com.