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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
adventurous
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
There is nothing scarier than coming to the end of one's life and finding that the person you have worked to be, the person you wanted to be more than anything, is not who you have become, despite your best efforts. Remains of the Day finds its protagonist at the end of a long career that has grown gradually less illustrious, debating dignity and recalling relationships that he failed to treat with the care he is, to some extent, now aware they needed, and he does so always behind the mask of his profession.
A mask that lead him to back a Nazi sympathizer for most of his career, and made him inflexible in the face of change away from a world that might have been more sympathetic to his values. Yet is until the very end of the book that he is able to admit anything to himself.
As Ms. Benn says, "Why, Mr. Stevens, why, why, why do you always have to pretend?"
Reading this for school was technically a reread, as it was assigned to me two years in a row, and I was thrilled to read it again. It challenges the reader to look beneath what is being said (we love unreliable narrators) and paints a tragic picture of dignity, old power, and morals atop spindly pedestals, waiting to be brought down by time and truth. It's tragic but it always hits. Ishiguro is a masterful writer.
A mask that lead him to back a Nazi sympathizer for most of his career, and made him inflexible in the face of change away from a world that might have been more sympathetic to his values. Yet is until the very end of the book that he is able to admit anything to himself.
As Ms. Benn says, "Why, Mr. Stevens, why, why, why do you always have to pretend?"
Reading this for school was technically a reread, as it was assigned to me two years in a row, and I was thrilled to read it again. It challenges the reader to look beneath what is being said (we love unreliable narrators) and paints a tragic picture of dignity, old power, and morals atop spindly pedestals, waiting to be brought down by time and truth. It's tragic but it always hits. Ishiguro is a masterful writer.
slow-paced