克拉拉与太阳 part four1

油炸绿番茄

Reading Task: part four 1
Summary of the Content：
Josie's mother Chrissy insists on making Klara a replacement for Josie through Capaldi's "continuation plan" in order to deal with Josie's possible death. Klara is required to "deeply learn" Josie's patterns of behavior, even occupying Josie AF's empty shell upstairs to achieve a "combination of kernel and shell." Josie’s Father Paul strongly disputes this, arguing that Klara cannot replicate Josie's "human heart" - the unique inner complexity of human beings - and pointing out that this substitution is a denial of humanity. As a result, there is intense conflict within the family, with the mother's emotional obsession in sharp contrast to the father's rational criticism

Evaluation:
Kazuo Ishiguro continues Klara's calm, almost mechanical narrative style, but adds more details of psychological activity (e.g., the obsessive recording of the "hundred digits") in this part of the story, and contrasts the unquantifiable nature of human emotion through procedural language.
Symbolism and irony: Josie's suspended sculpture is both a visualization of technological reproduction and a critique of the hollowing out of human nature; Chrissie's change of address to Klara (from "tool" to "honey") is an ironic reflection of the hypocrisy of human instrumentalization of emotion.
Dialogic tension: The dialogue between Chrissie and Klara is full of power inequalities-Chrissie's commanding tone contrasts with Klara's submissiveness, highlighting the class nature of the "manipulator" and the "manipulated" in the ethics of technology. The contrast between Chrissie's commanding tone and Klara's submissiveness emphasizes the class nature of the "manipulator" and the "manipulated" in the ethics of technology.

Reflection：
In this section, the conversation between the father and the mother about the father's replacement made me think about not relying too much on the social evaluation system, looking at myself and others through the eyes of higher society, exploring and discovering that it is also important to recognize one's own existence and bring a constant stream of recognition and trust to oneself, trusting that one cannot be replaced by anyone, and recognizing one's own value.
And the mother's need for Klara to be an exact copy of Josie made me think about how the darker aspects of human nature lead to a disregard for morals and ethics. Twisted love, twisted expressions. In fact, at this point, she is not loving her daughter, but an illusion. If she loved her, she should have loved her well while she was alive and lived with the memory of her after her death. But the mother is only good to Josie to fulfill society's expectations, and that goodness comes at the cost of her life.