At the end of the novel, Oshima tells Kafka, "You've grown up" [p. 463]. Kafka feels he has entered "a brand-new-world" [p. 467] Kafka has has reached "a brand-new-world" of maturity. He has gained a bit of wisdom in life through his little vacation from reality. He realized that running away from his father's evil prophecy does no good. It is just an illusion, a dream that he has to eventually wake up from.
This whole world is just Kafka's fantasy, his respite of the tangible world. It sort of makes sense. You can become anything you want in a dream, thus, he chooses to be Kafka Tamura who has an imaginary bird friend named "Crow." The entrance stone opening and closing are metaphors of falling in and out of dreams. All of the weird spirit characters or "concepts" such as Colonel Sanders are just those that keep the dream running. This novel is very magical, very metaphorical.
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