What do these conversations, thoughts, and feelings suggest about the sophistication of the AI technology in the novel, or about the unknown depths of the AFs' consciousness? Before Klara goes home with Josie, Klara and the other AFs have a rapport with one another, especially with Rosa.What shadow does that loss cast on the family and over the novel as a whole? Sal, Josie's late sister, is said to have died from a disease when the girls were younger.Based on what we learn from the conversations among Helen, Chrissie, Paul, and Rick about the choices parents make for their children in this world, how might that have affected Josie's condition? The details of Josie's illness are kept vague.Does the term "Artificial Friend" resonate at all with you now, as a contemporary reader in the age of social media and the internet? What's the difference in the level of interaction between children and their "artificial" versus their real/human friends?.How do the tone and style of her first-person narration help to convey the degree of her attention to detail? Klara is prized for her observational qualities as an Artificial Friend. Which elements of the novel felt familiar to you at the time of reading, which felt hard to imagine, and which were easy to imagine as a possibility for your lifetime? The setting of Klara and the Sun is sometime in the future, when artificial intelligence (AI) has become more integrated into human society.
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