An artist of thr floating world

Question 1

introduction?

Answer 1

All Frogs Demand Sacrifices. Please Jump.

A - art serves as medium through which creators articulate and reflect their personal critiques of the political and social circumstances surrounding its creation

F - fostering personal and intellectual engagement with the authors and audiences

D - Deliberate and thoughtful construction of kazou ishiguro’s prose fiction novel AN ARTIST OF THE FLOATIGN WORLD 1986 is both shaped and enriched by the kunstlerroman structure and creative construction

S- set against the backdrop of post world war II japan

p - presenrs the novels antaginist ono with fallible memory

j - justified and built upon by emotional appeal to nostalgia, to reveal how truth can be inconsistent and subjective

Answer 2

C - constructed with a non-linear, dialogic and introspective structure to explore of nostalgia distorts memory

R - revealing tension between Ono’s personal pride and need to confront uncomfortable truths about the past

D - deliberate construction of the text, shifting between the present, the past via flashbacks, and Ono’s reflective digressions

A - allows readers to consider how his personal memory is shaped by his moral ambiguity, therefore becoming unreliable as a narrator, compelling us to search for thr truth

M - mentally and symbolically placed between past and present, pride and guilt as he recalls

I - “i was standing on that little wooden bridge.. two columns of smoke rising from the rubble” hihglights failure to reconcile with his complicity

D - despite this vivid yet fragmented imagery of destruction evoke in the aftermath of the war, Ono’s tone continues to remain detchaed and offers no personal reaction

s- suggesting a refusal to come to terms with complicty in japans militeristic past, as seen later

N - “no great shame in mistakes made in the best of faith” in doing so, ishiguro reveals how memory, shaped by nostalgia becomes fallible, prompting readers to question his narrative and recognise psycological cost of denial

P - present subjective recollections of his past in order to preserve his pride

I - i cannot recall precisley what i said at that meeting.. but i remember a sense of triumph”

p - puprosely contructs a sense of hesitation or unwillingness from Ono in this elipsis

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