Klara and the Sun Literary Elements

Science fiction

The novel is set in a world in which children are genetically modified and raised to be as technically and academically proficient as possible. In this world, AI has taken over an outsized leadership role from real-life humans.

The novel is narrated from the perspective of Klara, the AI companion for a little girl named Josie.

The novel is repressive, negative, manipulative, and dystopian.

Klara and Josie are the novel's antagonist; Cootings Machines are the novel's antagonist.

Klara's attempts to decipher what is happening in the world and save Josie forms the major conflict in the novel.

When Klara ultimately goes to the scrap yard.

Klara destroying the Cootings Machine is foreshadowed by their introduction in the novel, when they are described as being very harmful things.

The sheer destruction Earth underwent is understated throughout the novel.

There are allusions to other science fiction novels, popular culture, and history.

There is intense, vivid imagery describing the destruction of the Earth, including clouds that have shrouded the Earth in clouds and environmental destruction.

The Earth is dying, and even though humans live on Earth, they still actively destroy it.

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The machines, but particularly the Cootings Machines, are personified throughout the novel and given human characteristics.