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Summary of Klara and the Sun

Summary of Klara and the Sun

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This is an unofficial summary & analysis of Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” designed to offer an in-depth look at this book so you can appreciate it even more. Smart Reads is responsible for this summary content and is not associated with the original author in any way.It by chapter summaries-Trivia questions-Discussion questionsAnd much more!Download and start reading immediately!Klara and the Sun was written by Kazuo Ishiguro, a Japanese native who grew up in Britain from the age of five. Born in 1954, he's written eight other fiction works, which have earned him many accolades, including the Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Two of his books — Never Let Me Go and Remains of the Day — have been recreated for film, to high acclaim. For his services to literature, he was knighted in 2018. He also has been granted special accolades by the countries of France and Japan.Klara and the Sun is a beautiful, quirky, albeit sometimes troubling and dystopian novel featuring a young girl robot — an "Artificial Friend," or AF — commercially designed for the purpose of assisting a teenager through the transitional years into adulthood — more specifically, to prevent her owner-child from becoming lonely. Through the novel's storytelling, we not only see the world through this AF's eyes, but we also get a glimpse into her own inner life, the way in which she experiences and processes new information. Klara, the AF on whom the story focuses, possesses many aspects of human form and habit. She walks, sleeps, thinks independently, and generates her own goals based on the observations she makes in the world. She relates in uniquely personal ways to those around her and experiences some version of hope, fear, pain, and love as she lives out her purpose in the world. At the same time, however, we also see her distinctly computational qualities at work. Constantly breaking complex visual information into "boxes" or "partitions" and then reintegrating them into a newly understood whole, we're called to also slow down and notice those things that we might otherwise breeze by — important observations representing the complexity of feeling around us — and to consider the more complete meaning that such observations might hold. Despite her advanced technological capacities and keen observational skills, Klara is far from perfectly intelligent. In fact, she can be quite naive. Throughout the story, we as readers get to witness her development and the deepening of her awareness and insight as she encounters and engages with new, complex, beautiful, and often difficult circumstances. Through Klara's eyes, we recognize the story's moderately dystopian social world and are led to grapple with questions about technology, surveillance, humanity, love, education, and social status, parenthood, hope, and much more. Despite her mechanical makeup, Klara is the one who leads the way for the humans around her toward hope, life, faith, and connection as she devotes herself in service and self-sacrifice to the wellbeing of her owner-child, Josie, inspiring us to seek to do the same. A constant interplay between warmth and coldness, and an insightful examination of love and loneliness, the story of Klara and the Sun will both move you and cause you to think differently about your own world — most importantly about your relationships your choices about how best to live.
Language
English
Pages
83
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
August 09, 2021

Summary of Klara and the Sun

Smart Reads
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This is an unofficial summary & analysis of Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” designed to offer an in-depth look at this book so you can appreciate it even more. Smart Reads is responsible for this summary content and is not associated with the original author in any way.It by chapter summaries-Trivia questions-Discussion questionsAnd much more!Download and start reading immediately!Klara and the Sun was written by Kazuo Ishiguro, a Japanese native who grew up in Britain from the age of five. Born in 1954, he's written eight other fiction works, which have earned him many accolades, including the Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Two of his books — Never Let Me Go and Remains of the Day — have been recreated for film, to high acclaim. For his services to literature, he was knighted in 2018. He also has been granted special accolades by the countries of France and Japan.Klara and the Sun is a beautiful, quirky, albeit sometimes troubling and dystopian novel featuring a young girl robot — an "Artificial Friend," or AF — commercially designed for the purpose of assisting a teenager through the transitional years into adulthood — more specifically, to prevent her owner-child from becoming lonely. Through the novel's storytelling, we not only see the world through this AF's eyes, but we also get a glimpse into her own inner life, the way in which she experiences and processes new information. Klara, the AF on whom the story focuses, possesses many aspects of human form and habit. She walks, sleeps, thinks independently, and generates her own goals based on the observations she makes in the world. She relates in uniquely personal ways to those around her and experiences some version of hope, fear, pain, and love as she lives out her purpose in the world. At the same time, however, we also see her distinctly computational qualities at work. Constantly breaking complex visual information into "boxes" or "partitions" and then reintegrating them into a newly understood whole, we're called to also slow down and notice those things that we might otherwise breeze by — important observations representing the complexity of feeling around us — and to consider the more complete meaning that such observations might hold. Despite her advanced technological capacities and keen observational skills, Klara is far from perfectly intelligent. In fact, she can be quite naive. Throughout the story, we as readers get to witness her development and the deepening of her awareness and insight as she encounters and engages with new, complex, beautiful, and often difficult circumstances. Through Klara's eyes, we recognize the story's moderately dystopian social world and are led to grapple with questions about technology, surveillance, humanity, love, education, and social status, parenthood, hope, and much more. Despite her mechanical makeup, Klara is the one who leads the way for the humans around her toward hope, life, faith, and connection as she devotes herself in service and self-sacrifice to the wellbeing of her owner-child, Josie, inspiring us to seek to do the same. A constant interplay between warmth and coldness, and an insightful examination of love and loneliness, the story of Klara and the Sun will both move you and cause you to think differently about your own world — most importantly about your relationships your choices about how best to live.
Language
English
Pages
83
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
August 09, 2021

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