Klara and sun

paranoia

Josie’s family visits the city to commission a portrait, revealing her father Paul, a displaced engineer replaced by AI. The portrait artist, Mr. Capaldi—a robotics enthusiast—secretly plans to replace Josie with an AF clone upon her impending death due to genetic-editing risks, mirroring her sister Sal’s fate. Klara discovers the suspended clone and later collaborates with Paul to destroy the polluting Cootings Machine, sacrificing her own cognitive function by extracting PEG-9 fluid to disable it, fulfilling her promise to the Sun in exchange for healing Josie. The Sun’s intervention miraculously revives Josie, who later attends college while her friend Rick pursues his ambitions. The narrative frames Klara’s memories from a scrapyard, where she reflects on her purpose after being discarded once Josie outgrows her. Key themes include ethical dilemmas of cloning and AI , humanity’s fragility against technology, and Klara’s selfless devotion. The story closes with Klara meeting her former store manager, echoing Capaldi’s cold assertion that “nothing in Josie was beyond replication.”
Klara had a private conversation with her father. Her father asked, "Do you believe in the existence of human hearts? I'm not just referring to that organ. Of course, of course, I'm talking about the literary significance of this word. Do you believe there is such a thing as the human heart? Something that makes us unique individuals, I think the reason why I hate Capadi is that deep down I doubt that he might be right, doubt that his propositions are correct, doubt that today's science has undoubtedly proved that there is nothing unique in my daughter, anything that our modern tools cannot discover, replicate or transfer."
Mr. Capadi believes that there is nothing special in Josie's heart that cannot be sustained. He told the mother that he had been looking but couldn't find such a special thing. But now I believe he was looking in the wrong place. There was really a very special thing there, but not in Josie's heart, but in the hearts of those who loved him. That's why I think Mr. Capadi was wrong. I couldn't have succeeded. So I'm glad I made that decision back then. In fact, if Klara had followed her mother and Capadi's plan and chosen to be Josh, she would naturally have received her mother's love and Rick's love. But Klara still chose to pray to the sun.
In my point of view, the author wants to say that the most significant meaning of human existence is by no means designed by materiality. It is precisely all the unique emotions of human beings that give rise to consciousness such as the meaning of existence, the direction of goals, desires, needs, desires, fears, and aversions. Therefore, these are the sources of human value. Because we love and are loved, we are the irreplaceable miracles in the universe.