Jane+Chyun

The book, //Sound of Waves// is a third person point of view which other characters outside the story discuss about the story. For example, it generally discusses about the places in Utajima and other characters that are in the story. Even though the point of view of the book doesn't change, I noticed that the focus of the story shifted. For example in the begining of the chapters it was generally discussing about the place and explain the basic background that are necessary for the book. (Especially first 2 chapters confused me to think if this book is really love story or not because it had so many different names of mountains, lakes and celebration of god.) However as the story progresses and the relationship of Hatsue and Shinji got deeper, the story was focused more on to their love and the conflicts that follow them. Also more and more characters are appearing as the story progress such as Niyoko and Yatsuo who distract the love between Hatsue and Shinji.