My favorite book

My favorite book is Woman in the Dunes written by Koubou Abe. This novel describes the story of a man who was confined to the hole in dune. At first, he planed to escape from the hole. However, he found new way to live in that hole. I think this book describes the weakness (or the changeability) of human's subject.

Firstly I want to summerize the novel. The main character is a man who works in a school. His hobby is to collect insects. His wish is to list his name on the encyclopedia of insects as a descoverer of new kind of Spanish fly. For that reason, he often goes to country to collect insects.
One day, he went to a villedge surrounded by dune. After the sun set, he started to look for lodging. Finally, he decided to lodge at a house of a woman in the hole of the same biledge. However, actually, cheated by inhabitants of the viledge, he was confined to the hole. The inhabitants made him remove sand because the viledge was able to carry through only with daily removing sand. He planed to escape from the hole by using many ways. However, finally he decided to continue to live in the hole.

He objected to inhuman act of the inhabitants and planed to escape from the hole. However eventually he decided to live there. What change his mind? I think what changed his mind is surroundings. The surroundings in the hole was hard. Water provided by inhabitants daily was not enough to share two people, the main character and the woman. When they stopped to remove sand, providing water was also stopped. Therefore they had no choice but removing. The life in the hole, however, became not bad to him day by day. He found the fact that the life in the hole had a value all its own. In the course of time, the both made a child in the hole. Then he decided to live in the hole. Every factor in the hole made him do so. Living and surroundings in the hole changed his subject gradually.

I want to say that human's subjects is not made by themselves. Surroundings create all subjects. My way of thinking is also made by my all experiences given by surroundings about me. Human beings is tend to think their thinkings is something special. I think it is not true. If someone is good, it suggest only the fact that he was lucky. There is noboby who is good or bad innately. This is what I learn from this book.