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Stéphanie asked this question about Klara and the Sun:
Anyone already finished & want to discuss the ending?
Patrick Stirling I think it's all more straightforward!
<spoiler>Klara's obsession with the sun is purely her own - she's solar powered and has amplified that in her ow…moreI think it's all more straightforward!
<spoiler>Klara's obsession with the sun is purely her own - she's solar powered and has amplified that in her own mind and made a god of the sun
Josie is ill either due to Munchausen by proxy from her mother, there were a few hints of this, or a side effect of being lifted. Her sister Sal didn't survive for the same cause, whichever it was.
Josie recovered coincidentally with the storm, it was just Klara's interpretation that the Sun healed her. Actually IIRC she doesn't really start recovering for several days after the storm.
As for the very ending, After Josie heads off to college, The Mother sends Klara off to the Yard. It's interesting that they don't just turn her off, but leave her to rot there - "gradual fade" as it's put. Perhaps there's no off switch, or perhaps society really is that unfeeling. This latter is to me the main theme of this book. Cf Never Let Me Go!</spoiler>(less)
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One Flew I picked up on the Munchausen by proxy element as well, and wondered whether there was a possibility that the mother was somehow the cause. It was one ...more
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by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
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