Ch. 6 – 7

Three “incidents”•Discuss the following incidents’ significance to plot and/or character development:•Ruth “teaching” Kathy chess•Ruth’s pencil case•The Secret Guard

Kathy and Ruth, part 2•What do you make of the odd way Kathy and Ruth have of interacting…where they don’t directly state how they feel or what they think? Is this normal? Have you ever experienced this in your life?

• “But those last years feel different. They weren’t unhappy exactly – I’ve got plenty of memories I treasure from them – but they were more serious, and in some ways darker. Maybe I’ve exaggerated it in my mind, but I’ve got an impression of things changing rapidly around then, like day moving into night.” (77)• Discuss the implications of this

passage and make predictions about what Ishiguro will do.

Allusions• Comment on Ishiguro’s choice of these 2 allusions. How do they deepen and enrich the text?•We “had somehow drifted onto talking about soldiers in World War Two being kept in prison camps” (78)•“…like one of those long gloves in My Fair Lady” (86)