Year 11 - English
Exploring voice in 'Klara and the Sun'
Fiction: inner musings
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils explore and practise emulating a range of different narrative voices. They explore narrative voice in 'Alias Grace', 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and 'Klara and the sun' before crafting their own narrative voices. At the end of the unit, they write a narrative with a compelling voice.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explore the ways that Ishiguro crafts a unique voice in 'Klara and the Sun'.
Key Notes
- Ishiguro crafts Klara as an ambiguous narrator, leaving us to decipher her true nature.
- 'Klara and the Sun' is set in a futuristic dystopia.
- Klara is an AI companion for children.
- Ishiguro blurs the line between robot and human in his crafting of Klara.
- Ishiguro crafts Klara as the future voice of AI, perhaps subverting our traditional expectations about AI.
Vocabulary To Learn
- Ambiguous: not having one obvious meaning
- Dystopia: relating to an imagined society in which people live dehumanised lives
- Compelling: if something is compelling, it makes you believe it because it is so strong
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- We have to know everything about a narrator and their world in order for a story to make sense.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
Ishiguro crafts Klara as an ambiguous narrator, leaving us to decipher her true nature. 'Klara and the Sun' is set in a futuristic dystopia.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'Ambiguous'
not having one obvious meaning.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: We have to know everything about a narrator and their world in order for a story to make sense. Correction: Through slow crafting of a voice, we can let our reader work out the true nature of our narrator, world and characters as they read.
More Lessons In This Unit
- 'Alias Grace': forming opinions on characters Study Guide
- 'The Yellow Wallpaper': analysing character Study Guide
- 'The Yellow Wallpaper': crafting voice Study Guide
- Comparing dystopian voices Study Guide
- Conceptualising voice in fiction texts Study Guide
- Creating voice in our narratives Study Guide
- Emulating Atwood's use of an untrustworthy character in 'Alias Grace' Study Guide
- Emulating Ishiguro's use of an artificial voice in 'Klara and the Sun' Study Guide
- Exploring unique narrative voices Study Guide
- Planning outstanding narratives Study Guide
- Writing a narrative with a compelling voice Study Guide
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