![]() ![]() Because after all, characters in books are artificial. It shouldn't be that surprising, really, though, that an artificial creature could actually solicit our sympathies as much as a human one. On sympathizing with Klara, despite her being an A.I. ![]() I wanted her to remain a very optimistic character who has a childlike faith in the presence of something good and protective in the world - even as she learns all these other things, darker things about the human world that she occupies. I wanted some of that childlike freshness and openness and naivety to survive all the way through the text in her. She's like a tabula rasa at the beginning, and she's quite childlike and very open. ![]() Klara was especially interesting for me because she doesn't bring any baggage with her. On why he wanted his narrator to be an artificial person ![]()
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