Answer any one of the questions below:

  1. Like many works we've looked at this semester, Eye in the Sky is centrally concerned with the shifting nature of reality. What is Dick suggesting about the role of point-of-view in shaping what is considered "real"? How does the book focus on Dick's (uneasy) feeling that the idios kosmos (personal view) and the koinos kosmos (common view) are not always (ever?) in sync?

  2. OK, answer question 1, but instead of applying the idea to P.K. Dick's novel, apply it instead to any of the writings of Haruki Murakami. Be sure to use examples from his work to support your discussion.

  3. There is a clear similarity between the ending ofEye in the Sky (where the partners are cultivating their hi-fi shop) and Voltaire's Candide (where the principal characters are cultivating their garden). But there are also larger similarities of form (plot design), tone (dark comedy), and satire (social, religious, political). Find examples to support this.

  4. In much fiction we can unlock the meaning (theme) by tracing changes in the main character from beginning to middle to end. Looking either at Eye in the Sky or at one specific work of Haruki Murakami, discuss what changes in situation and attitude the main characters undergoes? What does this suggest the theme of the book is (perhaps there is more than one)?