I'd begun to understand... that people often felt the need to prepare a side of themselves to display to passersby - as they might in a store window, and that such display needn't be taken so seriously once the moment had passed.# ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun In Part Two, Klara gets acquainted with the main characters of Josie's life—the Mother, Rick, Melania Housekeeper— and accustoms herself to the rhythms of Josie's life. She witnesses an "interaction meeting" and agrees to help Rick protect Josie from changing. Then the mother takes her on a very strange trip to the waterfall. In this chapter, Klara comes into greater, more personal contact with the contradictions of human nature. Ishiguro illustrates these contradictions beautifully through Klara's mechanical perspective on the world. When overwhelmed, Klara breaks up her experience of a room or situation into lots of little boxes. In one of the most significant scenes, she sees the mother's face broken up into many little boxes, showing a cacophony of emotion: sadness, cruelty, love. In the comments below I'd love to hear your thoughts on Part Two. Here are some questions for consideration— you can answer one or all of them. Tell me what you think, and engage with the comments of others: 1. What motivates Rick to protect Klara? Is he a good friend? 2. Why does Josie “change” for the children at the interaction meeting? 3. Why did the mother take Klara to the Waterfall?