Kathy H

Question 1

Why is Kathy referred to as Kathy H?

Answer 1

Her identity and agency (power) is being stripped off.

Question 2

1) “an __ made me get the case”
- acts on what? impulses? imagery? context?

Answer 2

1) impulse
- instinct and this humanises her, sexual, animalistic, Ishiguro wrote song lyrics

Question 3

2) “was a woman who’d been told she couldn’t have __”
- how does this relate to Kathy? how do we feel?

Answer 3

2) babies
- Kathy also can’t have babies because she is a clone, we feel empathy and sympathy for them

Question 4

3) “we could see hills in the distance..but they seems to us __ crooked”
- what do they miss? what are they always doing? how does this describe the clones?

Answer 4

3) oddly
- hailsham, they are always viewing things and are never part of it, they have a distorted perception as they are not natural and are otherd

Question 5

4) “there was a big glass front at __ level we kept on staring”
- what is it? what does it allow the clones to see? what does this show?

Answer 5

4) street
- a barrier, a world filled with humanity, they will never be part of that world

Question 6

5) “you’d get some __ into who you were deep down”
- who do they rely on? what does this show? soul?

Answer 6

5) insight
- themsleves to find this information, they have hope, they have a belief in a soul

Question 7

6) “created from __ over and over”
- what are they about their future? what does this show about all the clones? lack of what? context?

Answer 7

6) scratch
- naive, hopeful and desperate, they all have the same mind, individuality as the same thing happens in every generation, Ishiguros parents grew up in WWII Japan living in a society that went along with farcist views

Question 8

7) “I’ve never tried to find it, I’m not really __ in seeing it”
- what was Kathy doing for the whole of the book? doesn’t want to associate with who? contradicts what?

Answer 8

7) interested
- she was talking about hailsham, with her past self, her focus which implies it is sentimental to her

Question 9

8) “I just __ a bit, then turned back to the car to drive if to where ever it was supposed to be”
- indulging in what? what is this? what does her pausing show? lack of what for the clones?

Answer 9

8) waited
- some grief, passive, that she gone against the control, agency