Death is a division which is essential in this world as Kobo Abe writes it a passage in his short story, "The Magic Chalk." The passage comes from the protagonist Argon. He says, "Death, I'm going to make death. We need some divisions. They're very important in making a world" (337). This passage brings forth the main idea of the whole story as Argon creates a world of his own with a magic chalk only to let it dies out on him. In comparison to Argon's magic world and the real world, human creations can sometime go wrong; like Argon's creation of Eve. Behind every creation, there lies a fault, or miscalculation, that can cause severe problems.
             Argon is an artist, and like many artists, he can also be labeled as "a starving artist." Argon lives in an apartment which has nothing but a chair. Days without eating bring out a major hunger for him. He then realizes that he has a piece of chalk in his pocket, but unlike any other chalk, this one is a magic chalk. He finds that whatever he draws will become reality as long as he blocks the light from the outside world from his apartment. In order to take away his loneliness from the dark room, he thinks up of drawing a person. He finally draws Eve as his companion. In Argon's mind, he is Adam and she is Eve. Together they would live in his room or "the Garden of Eden" (325). But like many human creations, Eve goes against Argon's ideal value of her creation. He believes that she would listen to him, but she does not. Eve, like every real human being, believes in the importance of money. She asks him, "We're going to get rich right?" as she begins to accept him as someone whom she would live with forever. Argon then tells her that in the world they are living in, "money's irrelevant" (325). Perhaps to Argon, what he tries to say is money is irrelevant in the world which he ...