key quotes Flashcards
(6 cards)
1
Q
kings field
A
‘general feeling they never properly finished converting the place’
‘stuff no one else wanted’
‘ghostly’
‘beds were second hand’
‘beds had stains’
2
Q
boat scene
A
‘beached’
‘paint almost finished’
‘crumbling’
3
Q
childhood
A
- ‘gleaming white tiles’
- ‘stories to make you feel safe’
- ‘so clean’
- ‘sports field’
- ‘pavilion’
- ‘large house’
4
Q
afraid of clones
A
- ‘back in the shadows’
- ‘shuddered’
- ‘afraid of us in the same way someone might be afraid of a spider’
5
Q
passive
A
- they want me to go for another 8 months
- passing a misty field
- boasts
- I have been a carer now for eleven years
6
Q
level 5 notes
A
- POV1= critique education systems that socialise children into passivity due to illusion of freedom while quietly shaping obedience
- POV2= existential questioning as she lacks no authentic identity or choice/ purpose= her narrative is emotionally muted or silenced by authority?
= are her memories shaped by conditioning or reality?
= revealing how deeply childhood has been engineered to disguise powerlessness - writing in the early 2000s amid rising concern over surveillance and biotechnological control, Ishiguro may be using this constructed childhood to explore how nostalgia can obscure oppression
= echoes real-world debates about education, class, and bioethics
