The Forest Consciousness Of Banengannen’s Soccer Team

Kenzaburo Oe is the second Nobile Prize writer after Kawabata Yasunari, and plays a vital role in the field of Japanese Literature. Kenzaburo Oe has been living in a forest village since he was a child, thus he has unusual experiences to forest. During the sixty years of his creating period, forest is an inseparable element for his creation which is bestowed with deep meaning. Meanwhile “Forest Consciousness” has always existed in his creation.Banengannen’s Soccer Team is one of the Noble Prize works, it explores the relationship between human beings which contains knowledge, enthusiasm, ambition, and attitudes. Kenzaburo Oe utilizes imagination, and combines past with present, city with country, reality with virility. The meaning of forest in this novel has altered tremendously. As a result the Forest Consciousness has been defined as a creative writing mode.In Banengannen’s Soccer Team, forest has changed into the refuge, which receives the misanro’s family. The forest cures this tiered, venerable family, and the misanro’s family find their root as well as self-acknowledgement. They use their own way to achieve immoral life. The misanro couple also find the courage to live and bravery to hope. They are able to fight with the main stream culture and guard for the variety of cultural diversity. Finally, the Forest Consciousness becomes the power to save the whole modern society.