the grasshopper and the bell cricket theme
The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket Theme: Biology Meets Symbol Kawabata’s story “The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket” is a meditation on the tension between the common and the rare. In the narrative, children search for insects—most find grasshoppers (abundant, noisy, straightforward), but a bell cricket, with its rare, delicate song, is only found by […]



