Ishiguro Narrative

There are various forms of symbolism in Never Let Me Go. A main symbol in the book is the cassette tape that the song “Never Let Me Go” is played on. The song represents motherhood, and is about a mom and her child. The people at Hailsham are unable to have children, because they are clones. The name of the cassette is “Songs After Dark” which helps the tape symbolize how people feel before Hailsham and then after. Another form of symbolism is when Kathy was a kid, singing to her pillow baby. The pillow baby symbolizes Kathy’s inability to have kids because she is a clone.

The way she uses description in this essay and the flow of events is very similar to the way that memories rush in when one returns to a familiar place from one’s past. To someone that may not of experienced this phenomena the details described may seem to be disconnected and random.

One instance from the video where I believe there was misperception, was when Kathy perceives Alberto to be a man

“Ishi in Two Worlds” was a biography written by Theodora Kroeber. Although Ishi wasn’t here to write his own biography, facts have shown that the facts Kroeber included in her version of the biography was deemed to be accurate. But comparing it to her writing and how she tells the story to Ishi’s point of view, the question is, is her biography staged or bias?

Theme: Kathy is too caught up in John mystery’s to let him go, as she feels almost a fatal attraction to them and she gets satisfaction from being involved with his tricks.

Kathy is the main character that fails to be comfortable, she had to suppress her sadness and overall appear to be happy on the outside in order to keep her relationship with John sustainable. She lives every single day faking a smile and she has no one to outlet to due to the fact that they are in the middle of nowhere with “no towns or people nearby.” O’Brien uses the relationship and Kathy’s life to strengthen his theme and to communicate it to the reader in an understandable example. This suppression of emotion Kathy endures builds up and lead to a tipping point which occurs in the end of the novel when Kathy essentially disappears. The disappearance of Kathy contributes to his message because no one wants to live a life along the lines of Kathys, the reader is able to understand the horrific consequences of choosing the wrong people to surround yourself with and that is what O’Brien wants the reader to take

By carefully choosing the words and phrases she used to tell Molly’s story, Kline was able to show how the way that people tell stories can reveal personal information about them. For example, when Molly is having conversations with people, she will often have snarky thoughts that she doesn’t say out loud. These are revealed to us by the narrator, who I assume to be Molly as we’re only ever able to see what she is thinking. These sarcastic thoughts reveal to the reader that Molly has a snippy personality. The fact that Molly keeps the majority of these thoughts to herself shows that she is conscientious of the people around her.

“Behind me, in my jeep, my daughter Kathleen sat waiting with a government interpreter, and now and then I could hear the two of them(kathleen and her friend) talking in soft voices.” Kathleen asks her father if he has ever killed someone. Although O'Brien did kill someone, he insisted on telling his daughter that he hasn't killed anyone, since kathleen is only 10 years old. O’Brien begins to reflect on his lie, and imagines that his daughter is an adult, and imagines that he might tell her the story of ‘The Khe’. Kathleen is only 10 years old and she is starting to learn about war stories, so he has to learn on how he words his stories to her.

In the whole of the novel, O’Brien is constantly doubting and internally fighting with himself and his feelings, but now he is battling with the knowledge that someday his innocent daughter will grow up and want to hear the truth. In The Field Trip, O’Brien decides to bring his daughter to Vietnam and relive his experiences: “‘Like coming over here. Some dumb thing happens a long time ago and you can’t ever forget it.’ ‘And that's bad?’ ‘No,’ she said. ‘ That’s weird’”(O’Brien 175). Tim O’Brien deliberately adds in this trip because he wants the reader to understand that even though it was a life time ago, it still sticks and affects him. In addition, the reader gets a glimpse into the naive behavior of Kathleen proving O’Brien’s point to protect her from the truth and try to keep her young. O’Brien makes sure to tell the stories on their trip to distract Kathleen from the true horrors that occured in Vietnam. Another reason O’Brien tells stories to Kathleen is the hope that one day she will grow up and live in the stories like himself: “The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you” (O’Brien 230). Kathleen could be, in Tim’s mind, a way of preserving his stories and making other people believe and remember with him. O’Brien repedelty states,“

Angela Hawthorne is a typical AP student in her senior year of high school. She's rushing to finish her summer assignments while simultaneously running cross country, applying to college, trying to maintain her spot as valedictorian. In "The Admissions" by Meg Mitchell Moore, the use of interior monologue, point of view and narrative distance help characterize Angela as a believable AP student at the start of her senior year of high school. One way in which Moore characterizes Angela as a believable student is through the use of her interior monologue. Moore uses Angela's interior monologue to add on her thoughts and show Angela's personality.

The book Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America by Theodora Kroeber, is an introduction to the life of Ishi the last wild Indian. Ishi was a Yahi from the tribe Yana. The book introduces us to Ishi’s life, and gives us so much information on Indians housing, marriage, eating habits, hunting, and language. This story takes us through his life before the finding modern life, living in the museum discovering modern life, and through his death. I really enjoyed reading this book the author did a great job organizing it and it was touching to read how great man Ishi was.

The opening paragraphs of the section titled “Passions” in Kathy Goes to Haiti reveals a previously unexplored aspect of Kathy that prevented the reader from having a comprehensive understanding of who Kathy is as a person and a character - her thoughts, history, and emotions In these passages, Kathy reveals intense feelings of self-loathing. Kathy is even calls herself “inhuman” for the things she has done and felt. The passages are predominantly written in second person - the full line being “ You’re inhuman” - with the occasional shift into the first person perspective, it is clear to the reader that these thoughts and feelings are directed towards Kathy. However, the use of the second person creates a sense of distance between Kathy and those feelings by projecting them onto the reader, perhaps in an attempt to cause the reader to connect and empathize with Kathy. Like with several other moments in Kathy Goes to Haiti, these passages caught me off guard because the presentation of these emotions was sudden, unexpected, and overwhelming. They appear after being absent for the majority of the novel. I do feel like the use of the second person was successful in making me

Meet Quavo, a 15 year old from Atlanta that has a passion for basketball and one of the best players in the state of Georgia. But one night he was peer pressured into one of the most popular haunted houses in the area. He brought several of his friends Travis, Raheem and Christian along with him. The original plan was for him and his friends to go to a regular haunted house they saw in the newspaper, But instead they went to an abandoned house around the corner.

She puts a sentence at the end of each main point to bring everything together. An example is, “It’s another dead end.” (Copeland, 20) She uses these sentences to sum up what’s happening and tell the reader what to expect next. There’s even emotion tied to these small sentences. The sentences hold impact for the reader, both emotionally and purely where they are placed. With that sentence, the reader can feel how Alice did, at a loss. Alice didn’t have anything else to do but wait for more DNA test to try and match up with hers. She then switched her sentences up, “Clearly, their mother had contributed no Jewish ancestry to her son.” (Copeland, 8) This explains what the whole paragraph was saying as the paragraph used more technical terms. By breaking the whole paragraph down into simpler wording, Copeland brings the reader the main points. It helps the readers follow the story even when the story can get

Finally, Kathy does learn her lesson—unfortunately, however, it takes the ending of a life to