Reading Notes Week 16B: Kenzaburo

The Tree at night is only present by the sound of water drops hitting the ground.  There is not much detail described about it other than its silhouette

Rain Tree is destroyed in a fire

Rain tree a symbol? Metaphor for something?

The tree is always talked about during the night, when it is dark?

Relation to Indian Folk Art- this black tree Krishna has climbed is undoubtedly what would be called an Indian in my country.  It has certainly been no tree through the sensibility and techniques of Indian Folk Art style" (1119)