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The Man Who Turned Into a Stick Study Guide

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by Kobo Abe
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Hippie Boy

Hippie Boy Hippie Boy is standing on the sidewalk outside a department store when a stick falls, barely missing him. At first he is angry at whoever threw the stick down, then, as the play progresses, he becomes simultaneously attached to the stick and repulsed by it because it reminds him too much of himself. He thinks he looks like the stick and believes that the stick understands him.

In the beginning, Hippie Boy does not want to part with the stick, but in the end he sells the stick to the Man from Hell. Hippie Boy tells Man from Hell that the only reason he is selling the stick is because he doesn't want to sell it. Hippie Boy represents the alter ego, or opposite, of Man from Hell. He is a.....

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