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What is the Cooting's machine? It must have an actual purpose?
Summer (speaking_bookish) I read an article about different elements in this book and the Cootings machine was one of them. Apparently it is simply a piece of construction equi…moreI read an article about different elements in this book and the Cootings machine was one of them. Apparently it is simply a piece of construction equipment of which the actual purpose is of no importance. No different than one you might pass while driving. You know it’s equipment but not what it does. The important thing here is that Klara views the machine as a possible enemy of the sun - which she looks upon as another person would a God- since it causes pollution when being used.

Obviously if you’ve read the book you already know all this. I, too, thought there was some significance in the purpose of the machine and was so curious about what it actually was but once I realized it was simply like any other machine and held no actual importance I was appeased.

The story needed something that caused pollution for Klara to focus on and this is what the author chose. It’s that simple. Kind of disappointing as I was hoping for some revelation of sorts, haha. (less)
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Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
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