-moving and adjustment

afresh in my learning :  observation within the pattern of Josie’s life

new views ＜- first time outside

# I copied Josie’s method.

# I would gain new, perhaps crucial insights concerning Josie’s situation. (96)

-Mr McBain’s barn

Sun’s resting place -＞ everyone’s end, death ?

-Mother’s quick coffee (time)

-Rick

Josie’s best friend and neighbor

playing with drone birds alone

-Rick and Josie’s plan

They promised not to change, but he worried about it.

# I thought she might not change. Might stay the same... (82)

-Interaction meeting

weird / welcome (conversation) : peer group sizing up people : formal course(not friendly encounter)

-food blending woman

‘not to go ahead’ kids: Rick -＞ unlucky

said carelessly Josie’s sister Sal passed away

-Josie’s change變心

noticing Josie’s ability to change

# - Why didn’t you get a B3, Josie?

- Now I’m starting to think I should have. (77-78)  ＜-＞ loneliness

It must have hurt Klara. 

-Rick’s rescue

He challenged Danny for Klara as mentioning his pet object in his pocket.

-outsiders

# You shouldn’t even be here. (80)

# I don’t belong here. This is a meeting for lifted kids. (82)

-Sun’s brightness

equal to everybody ?

-Morgan’s Falls

Sal in the photo

Mother didn’t welcome Klara at first, now she spoke frankly to her.

# - Are you happy here?

-It must be great. Not to miss things. Not to long to get back to something. Not to be looking back all the time. (90)

# It must be nice sometimes to have no feelings. I envy you. (97)

-first time inside a car

***Klara was shipped to the house!? like the new items

-Mother’s suggestion -＞ sad but cruel !!

She asked Klara to pretend to being Josie(= imitate Josie).

Klara gave (thin and bony) Mother hope.

# Since Josie isn’t here, I want you to be Josie. (103)

# Your sister made promises too. But she couldn’t keep them. Don’t you do the same. (105)

-(how many) metal boxes (forming) 

complex process of cognition in Klara

-bull in the field

so many signals of anger and the wish to destroy -＞ fear : climate change

-Father

He was a rising star once, but substituted a long time ago.

-Manager / Mother / Melania Housekeeper

Housekeeper calls Klara “AF” and Josie “Miss Josie.” -＞ class difference

-So we’re still good friends

# Kids can be hurtful sometimes. (107) -＞ easier

＞＞＞＞＞ As a Highly Sensitive Person, I felt awful when Klara notices and deters every signal and sign around her. How tired would she be if she is a real person? Klara seems like an emotional labor worker. I wonder if AFs are going to replace it.

-Sun’s pattern

solar malabsorption -＞ weakening / rise in spirits

(pouring) sun’s nourishment(= kindness)

-AFs

made for lonely children

High-rank parents can afford buying them.

-Rosa

having a different character, a friend to discuss

bought earlier than Klara in the store

-finding a home

-Klara

fear not being chosen(= bought), fear of being thrown away(= replaced by)

unique: ability to observe, learn and blend

# You notice and absorb so much. (11)

# You never miss a thing. (22)

She imagines how people would feel.

-Beggar Man & his dog

always being together -＞ family in Klara’s eyes

-Raincoat Man & Coffee Cup Lady

They might lose each other and by chance found each other again.

# People feel a pain alongside their happiness. (23)

-Cootings Machine

Pollution (sunlight is gone)

-spiky-haired girl

possible customer, but Klara didn’t respond to her

# It’s for customer to choose the AF, never the other way round. (34 Manager's advice)

-B2s vs B3s

improvement, new arrival 

-Josie

her cautious walk -＞ sick

promise to take Klara to her room (watching the sunset) : happy match

-Mother

focusing on Klara’s extraordinary observational ability

# Will you please reproduce for me Josie’s walk? (44) ---＞ shocking later

-Manager

like a teacher (letting AFs know their fates)

-What does family mean to Klara?

If there was anything difficult, anything frightening, to be faced in the house we would do so together. (26)

-the effect of the Sun’s special nourishment

a secret deal in the Barn : AF superstition? or a special favor?

-parting time

their real & everlasting love : truth at that time / stronger & into an adult --＞ with separate plans now

# Rick and Josie still show kindness to each other. And yet, they’re now preparing such different future. (287)

# But now we’re no longer kids, we have to wish each other the best and go our different ways. (288)

They might once again meet like the Coffee Cup Lady and Raincoat Man....

occupying the Utility Room(倉庫) : high small window : not a view

-Mr Capaldi’s demand

AFs like Klara offered education and enlightenment well for lonely kids, but people are scared and resentful toward AFs. People have backlash and prejudice against them. They want AFs to be sealed into black boxes forever. He asked her to resist and fight back. However, Mother interrupted and rejected it.

# Klara deserves better. She deserves her slow fade.... Leave our Klara be. (294)

-the Yard at Memorial Bridge 處理場

Klara said to Josie, Thank you for choosing me.

# But I like this spot. And I have my memories to go through and place in the right order. (302)

seeing Manager again : happiness : hearing Rosa’s news

the good service : having successful home : the remarkable AF --＞ complete !!

# I’d never have reached what they felt for Josie in their hearts... It was inside those who loved her... -＞ So Mr Capaldi’s wrong.

The Sun was very kind to me. (302) ---＞ Can I say like that on the last day?

*** light and shadow in life