 In every event and conversation , the protagonist draws parallels to something he has read in comics . He has a withdrawn personality averse to risk @-@ taking ; he declares himself a " true adherent of <unk> " , and quotes the character Linus from Charles M. Schulz 's comic strip Peanuts : " No problem is so big or so complicated that it can 't be run away from . " His mother 's home , which he calls " sealed in amber " as it never changes , provides him a safe berth from the ever @-@ changing modern world . 
