Comparison of Murakami’s “After the Quake” and J.D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye”

Develop a literary and critical argument of the text as a whole, through the comparison of both texts according to one of the following topics: City, Shock, Story-telling, Birth, Death, Art, Performance. You may or may not wish to focus on historical change across the “modern and contemporary” era, and develop your argument in relation to current research by responding to the arguments of at least three peer-reviewed secondary sources (additionally to the books), so 5 sources in total. Please refer to the Murakami text as a whole, and not as separate stories.