
Blue and Orange Morality: Colonel Sanders claims to not know what "right" or "wrong" are and only cares about keeping the timeline in order.Despite apparently no one being around for him to have attacked, Kafka comes to fear that he may have killed his father via Astral Projection.

Blood-Splattered Innocents: A few days after running away, Kafka blacks out for about four hours and wakes up with his shirt stained with someone else's blood.Bishonen: Oshima is described as "pretty, rather than handsome" with a clean look and a charming smile.Author Appeal: As usual in the case of Murakami, music, especially classical music and opera.The conversation also opens Kafka to the possibility that he killed his father via astral projection. Astral Projection: Discussed by Oshima and Kafka when Kafka realizes that his ghost girl is probably the still-alive Miss Saeki.He pulls this off at least two more times. Asleep for Days: When Hoshino and Nakata arrive in Shikoku, Nakata promptly goes to sleep for 34 hours.Arc Words: Cryptic references to an "entrance stone" start showing up about halfway into the book.Tropes used in Kafka on the Shore include:
