-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

-Klara’s request (vs Mother’s one)

Jose’s losing strength again -＞ hoping the special help : making a special plea

She confessed underestimating her task so She failed to stop Pollution(= perform the service). --＞ too professional mind? perfectionist? Just programming?

She prayed to God for Josie’s getting better again. She was asking the Sun to make exceptions and exercise favoritism this time. She praised the Sun’s compassion, special nourishment and great kindness for their strong and lasting love. Klara has in mind only the Coffee Cup Lady and Raincoat Man & the Beggar Man and his dog. She never gave up hope.

-Mother’s harsh(childish) words

She said that Josie bet high, but Rick played it safe. What Josie’s won must be small and mean.

# Do you really feel like a winner? (276) 

Rick told her what Josie’s message(遺言) is about. She’s been doing the best for her daughter. Mother spoke nonsense because of fear of losing Josie again after Sal.

In the cloudy weather, Josie got new strength.

-city visiting

Josie stayed in the Friend’s Apartment / Rick in the hotel

the old store moved --＞ Klara’s hometown gone ?

-Father

Paul = Mr Arthur -＞ Mrs Arthur = Chrissie

He calls Josie (wild) Animal.

substitution : losing a job --＞ He lives in the (unemployed) community and is satisfied with it. Mother seemed hard on him ?

# But I keep hanging on, as you put it, because on the day I stop (working), Josie’s world, my world, would collapse. (189)

-Father’s objection to Mother’s plan

performing roles --＞ also human fate ?

unique and irreplaceable --＞ not be copied and transferred / If so, why he was fired?

# When they(scientists) do what they do, say what they say, it feels like they’re taking from me what I hold most precious in this life. (222)

human hearts : poetic sense : each of us special and individual

# Wouldn’t you have to learn her heart? (215)

Klara can understand Mr Paul’s unease and the initial coldness toward her.

Father started hoping again after talking with Klara frankly.

***Isn’t he a facist or thinker? --＞ dreaming the equal, fair society

# There are many different ways to lead a decent and full life. (228)

# Lifted or not, genuine ability has to get noticed. Unless this world’s completed crazy now. (227)

# But when I won’t accept is that Rick can’t have a decent life. I refused to accept this world has become so cruel. Rick wan’t lifted, but he can still go far, do very well. (233)

# The monster(Pollution machine) won’t rise again.

*** The author pictures the patriarchy being naturally deconstructed, but the good father is hopefully left. 

-Mother’s request

Mother’s narrowed eyes : complex to read  

She called Klara Honey and also rocked gently during a long embrace.

Klara’s loyalty to Mother -＞ shocking too !

# We’re asking you to become her. (207)

# I’ll be able to love you. (210)

-＞ If you were the new Josie, you would be loved by Mother and Rick. Too tempting ?

the second Josie : not a copy but extra same : observe and learn entirely to inhabit the new Josie

-Mr Capaldi’s studio

He is called Henry.

He mentioned Mother as a boss.

Is he a typical scientist? Is it just paid work (not requiring ethical choices?)

# We shouldn’t fear their(AFs) intellectual powers. (197)

# You mustn’t let Paul sway you... You can’t weaken now. (203)

the Purple Door --＞ very horrible !!!

# The new Josie won’t be an imitation. She really will be Josie. A continuation of Josie. (205)

claiming no difference between the first Josie and the second

# You’re being asked to continue her for Chrissie. And for everyone who loves Josie. (207)

-Promise with the Sun

completing the bargaining with the Sun in Mr McBain’s barn

destroying(= disabling) the Cootings Machine(= Pollution; climate change) with Father's help -＞ hope of Josie’s full recovery

-Mr Vance

class difference(discrimination) : no chance of higher education(= tutorials here)

Miss Helen’s guilty feeling for her son, not a former lover at first

# Do you regret it? Not going ahead with Rick? I feel I didn’t do my best for him. (235)

He said it would be favoritism(= corruption) when he does her a favor, not for talented kids.

He felt both sadness and delight in her being poor and fragile with age. She was once a beautiful queen, behaved badly, and hurt him hard.

Klara became to know the possibility of change in love.

complicated human heart --＞ maybe Rick and Josie too ??

-Rick’s chance

making his own (drone) system without any tutors and genetic editing

Getting into the college becomes a lottery for no-hopers. 

-hatred against humanoid

# They shouldn’t be taken by machines... First they take the jobs. Then they take the seats at the theater? (238)

-Klara and the Sun 

She believes in the Sun’s return strongly.

# In the morning when the Sun returns. It’s possible for us to hope. (253)

She was considering happily going away if Mother quitted her job for Klara. ㅠㅠ

-Morgan’s Falls shadows

cold manners -＞ Klara’s limitation of being a good AF ?

-Rick’s visits

Josie is sick and stays in bed : no tutoring

-Klara’s estimate

gathering fresh observations while listening them talking. ＜-＞ giving privacy

-bubble game with tension

Josie’s picture(drawing) / Rick’s (bubble-filling) words -＞ their old habit

unkind exchange : misinterpretation

Josie told him that his mum has no individual friends and society.

# I think your mom never went ahead with you because she wanted to keep you for herself. (128-129) -＞ not true

# Who wants to be the same all the time? (126) -＞ Josie’s ability to change

Rick spoke to Klara why he was angry and upset. She went too far about his mom and trapped him over and over. -＞ sulky 

# She pushes it too far, then thinks it can all be fixed with a nice picture. (140)

Rick thinks that doing her portrait is creepy. ((instinct))

-Getting into Atlas Brookings

Rick’s only chance, but theoretical chance : 2% admission for unlifts

# Our plan, I mean. How’s it going to work if I’ve got society and you haven’t? (129)

***Josie and Rick didn’t see eye to eye about their mother’s Courage. Is it mother's love for kids? Or selfish wish? Why is education so important to them?  I think that it causes unequalness among children.

# It goes wrong with Sal, but even after that, she finds the courage to go ahead with me all over again.

# But I can’t because my mother has Courage. So instead I get to stay in bed and sick. -＞ Rick’s bitter interpretation

-errand to Rick’s house

to be a kind, helpful AF : comparing two houses

Klara doesn’t have smell faculty, but B3s have it a little.

Klara delivered a Picture to Rick. She wanted them to make up and be friends again.

***People around Klara share secrets(confidence) openly. How possible? She is machine not to spread it or just a third party or has the same duty to protect Josie? 

-Miss Helen’s idea about education

her requests and secret weapon(= old flame) 

She wanted her son' to try and hope for his own life.

Helen maybe witness Sal' clone ... -＞ superstitious, telepathy, naive ?

Klara was surprised that Miss Helen preferred(= chose) loneliness(not avoiding).

-journey to Mr McBain’s barn

Rick was following Klara not to get lost.

When Klara sees the strange objects, her sight is divided into boxes(not a single clear picture).

-Klara’s request and proposal

She believes in the Sun’s generosity and great kindness.

She prays to the Sun for Josie's situation. -＞ This attitude reminds some readers of Japan's national flag.  !?

Klara thinks that the Sun’s angry and sad because of Pollution and inconsideration. She decided to destroy Cootings Machine in return for his special help. She wanted Klara to get better and be saved like the Beggar Man with his dog.

-side by side

Josie and Rick promised to be together forever.

Housekeeper declared “Okay, AF. We same side.”  She also supposes that Mr Capaldi must be a creepy Son Bitch. ((instinct))