Yozo's character traits
Causes Yozo to constantly feel sad and a big reason for him not feeling human.
What is depression?
Displays how there can be happiness on the outside, but darkness on the inside.
What are cherry blossoms?
What Yozo feels for a woman he meets that shocks Yozo.
What is love?
The woman Yozo attempts to commit suicide with.
Who is Tsuneko?
What Yozo does to try and get by socially.
Causes Yozo to be awkward in interactions and scared of interactions.
What is Social Anxiety?
Represent Yozo's escape from reality.
What are drugs and alcohol?
What Horiki brings Yozo to, Yozo is made a leader of these.
What are the Communist meetings?
A rich, townhouse owner. They are related to Yozo
Who is Yozo's father?
Yozo befriends Takeichi to stop Takeichi from doing this.
Telling the students Yozo is faking his clowning.
Causes people to laugh at Yozo
What is funny?
Represents how Yozo begins to suffer more and more each day.
What is Yozo's imaginative wound?
Occurs when the townhouse Yozo is living in is sold.
What are financial struggles?
Yozo's friend, loves to drink.
Horiki
A type of people that trouble Yozo.
What are women?
Causes Yozo to be scared to stand up for himself
Represents Yozo feeling human and shocks Yozo.
What is love?
Causes Yozo to come to the conclusion he needs to die.
What is embarrassment from no money?
accuses Yozo of faking his clowning, Yozo becomes friends with him.
Takeichi
Yozo and Tsuneko jump into the Ocean
How does Yozo attempt to die?
Allows Yozo to do well on tests in school, even though he often misses school and doesn't study.
What is intelligence?
What are the seagulls at the end of the notebook?
Causes Yozo to escape from his life for a little bit
Love to talk to Yozo, amused by Yozo's clowning.
A relative tells Yozo this is going to happen to him in the hospital, but Yozo doesn't care
What is being disowned?