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This was my sense of the ending as well...that AFs were made illegal or something like this. But it's so interesting/odd that the humans would have left them 'on' and semi-functioning...
Yeah I thought highlighting Manager's walk may have something to do with Josie as well. "Projection" is well-said!
Yes, and the loose thread of the father's involvement in a fascist community...
This is the part that grinds my gears. It's as if the author intentionally blunts the emotional impact of the book by omitting critical parts. Is it that Klara is so distraught by what happens to her that she purposefully deletes those memories? Why even bring in any kind of political world-building element to it if you aren't going to exploit it to amplify the impact of the book's conclusion? Are we not to consider how to feel about Klara's journey? Can we even do that without all of that crucial context that we may well have access to through Klara that we are just not given for some mysterious reasons?
I think Ishiguro just has a sadistic streak and couldn't handle a happy ending. I feel like he resisted the urge to kill Josie so he had to do something to make up for it. By leaving Klara in the yard (not unlike the polluting machine), he managed to leave us a bit less happy than we could have been after Josie lives.
The manager, like Klara and the other AFs, had become obsolete. And all Klara‘s humans had moved on and outgrown her. The Mother clearly had no use for her once she didn’t “become” Josie so she just trashed her, never truly understanding how much Klara felt. The slow fade in the junk yard seemed appropriate.
This also seemed like a comment on disposable humans--old people--sitting in their scrapyards, watching, and fading.
It's so interesting to me how Klara ends up in the "Yard," a place similar to where found the Cootings Machine with the Father. It's like she's considered just another old piece of machinery.
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This was my sense of the ending as well...that AFs were made illegal or something like this. But it's so interesting/odd that the humans would have left them 'on' and semi-functioning...
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Yeah I thought highlighting Manager's walk may have something to do with Josie as well. "Projection" is well-said!
Yes, and the loose thread of the father's involvement in a fascist community...
This is the part that grinds my gears. It's as if the author intentionally blunts the emotional impact of the book by omitting critical parts. Is it that Klara is so distraught by what happens to her that she purposefully deletes those memories? Why even bring in any kind of political world-building element to it if you aren't going to exploit it to amplify the impact of the book's conclusion? Are we not to consider how to feel about Klara's journey? Can we even do that without all of that crucial context that we may well have access to through Klara that we are just not given for some mysterious reasons?
I think Ishiguro just has a sadistic streak and couldn't handle a happy ending. I feel like he resisted the urge to kill Josie so he had to do something to make up for it. By leaving Klara in the yard (not unlike the polluting machine), he managed to leave us a bit less happy than we could have been after Josie lives.
The manager, like Klara and the other AFs, had become obsolete. And all Klara‘s humans had moved on and outgrown her. The Mother clearly had no use for her once she didn’t “become” Josie so she just trashed her, never truly understanding how much Klara felt. The slow fade in the junk yard seemed appropriate.
This also seemed like a comment on disposable humans--old people--sitting in their scrapyards, watching, and fading.
It's so interesting to me how Klara ends up in the "Yard," a place similar to where found the Cootings Machine with the Father. It's like she's considered just another old piece of machinery.
