What do we know about Banana Yoshimoto's personal life?
What is very little as she is a very private person.
100
"I need nothing else. It flashed for only an instant, but it left me extremely confused, dazzled as I was by the light given off by his eyes" (Backus 62).
What is Love
100
What is the food that Mikage gave Yuichi?
What is katsudon
100
Sotaro is always sad?
What is False; "(Sotaro is always cheerful)" (Backus 23).
100
What was the food that Yuichi and Mikage shared prominently?
What is Ramen
200
What inspired the authors name to be Banana Yoshimoto?
What is her love for banana flowers
200
What did Mikage find helpful to subside her loneliness?
What is a kitchen
200
What emotion did Yuichi expect to receive from Mikage when he called to explain about Eriko's death?
What is anger
200
When Mikage first saw Yuichi at her grandmother's funeral, she felt her love for her grandmother was weaker than his?
What is True
200
Where was Yuichi calling from while Mikage was at the hotel?
What is Tokyo
300
What do her books primarily aim to achieve?
What is to bring out youth and modern living of Japanese people.
300
Find a quote to represent the theme of death?
Answer's vary
300
"A lot of people would say you learn a lot from the ________"
What is "A lot of people would say you learn a lot from the toilet" (Backus 9).
300
Mikage felt happiness even with Yuichi.
False. She still felt lonely every time Yuichi would fall asleep stating she "[...] was crying for having been left behind in the night, paralyzed with loneliness" (Backus 67).
300
How did Eriko die?
She was killed by a man who became so obsessed with her that he felt he was taken advantage of and so he stabbed her.