Walls Don’t Move
When I read “Always on the side of the Egg” by Haruki Murakami. I started disagreeing with the contents of it immediately. Murakami starts by saying how an egg is always the victim and how the wall is the system that destroys the egg. Yet a wall can never move to destroy the egg. Eggs are representative of citizens and the wall represents the system. I believe that for an egg to be destroyed by the wall, another egg must force the egg to hurt itself. This so-called Wall is also run by other eggs. Eggs have the power to shape the wall to its desire and mold it to do what they want. But not one egg can simply transform the wall by itself, numerous eggs must have the same desire as the first egg, but other eggs can also attempt to transform the wall with their own backing. This allows for democracy and majority-rules giving balance and a system for eggs to follow, which prevents eggs going into chaos and destroying each other. The wall is simply the byproduct of what the egg desires and if negative actions occur because of the wall, it is truly the fault of the egg. This allows for new eggs to have new ideas to fix what previous eggs have done. Through trial and error the wall attempts to be as fair as possible, but it’s the eggs that change the wall and create cracks and imperfections.
