The Wind-up Bird Chronicle Chapter Summary & Analysis - Book 3 Chapter 33: A Dangerous Place ● The People Watching Television ● The Hollow Man (Pgs. 565-574) Summary

Book 3 Chapter 33: A Dangerous Place ● The People Watching Television ● The Hollow Man (Pgs. 565-574) Summary

Back in the hotel, Toru watches the waiter come out of Room 208 and follows him all the way to the hotel lobby where he saw his brother-in-law on television in the previous dreams. Noboru Wataya is hospitalized following an attack on his life. Eyewitnesses saw a man who fits Toru Okada's description to a tee. People are following Toru when the hotel goes completely dark. The faceless man tells Toru that some very dangerous people are convinced that he is responsible for the attack on Noboru Wataya.

Book 3 Chapter 33: A Dangerous Place ● The People Watching Television ● The Hollow Man (Pgs. 565-574) Analysis

At this point, the reader follows Toru's progress in the latest of the Room 208 dreams. This time, after coming through the wall, other people at the hotel see Toru and notice something is not quite right with him. As is true in the waking world, Noboru Wataya's presence is in Toru's dream landscape. ...
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