Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Emotion

The narration of "Never Let Me Go" seemed almost void of emotion, even when describing the deaths of close friends and her own impending death. Did that lessen the emotional weight for you as a reader?
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kc said...

Yes!

Again, I know this tone was deliberate, but I didn't find it compelling. I think by adopting this tone the writer is really putting an unrealistic burden on the reader to supply the missing emotion/passion through empathy with the characters' situation, but this sort of empathy ends up being kind of dry and intellectual, because the writer hasn't supplied the basic visceral foundation for it to bloom on.

12:49 PM, September 09, 2009

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