Dear Diary.... (Tone)

Little fyi: I am done with Brave New World starting the second book: Never Let Me Go. Yay.

"Anyway, I'm not making any big claims for myself. I know carers, working now, who are just as good and don't get half the credit. If you're one of them, I can understand how you might get resentful-about by bedsit, my car, above all, the way I get to pick and choose who I look after." -pg 3-4

Cracking open Never Let Me Go, I felt from the very beginning that I was reading something very personal and self-reflective. The fictional woman featured in the novel speaks as if the pages were indeed her diary rather than a public work. In the first page, Kathy introduces herself as a person might do when beginning a new diary. The author speaks through Kathy H., but at the same time, I feel as though Kathy really is the author. I forget that there is another person behind her and this is not her book. This feeling is helped by the first person position taken by Kathy H.- I mean the author.

The only interruption to the "diary tone" of the novel so far is located in the quote above. Kathy H. begins to address a "you". This suggests that Kathy anticipated someone reading her diary, journal, or whatever this is intended to be. Or maybe perhaps that the author anticipated an audience to his character. I don't know. It gets weirder in the section that reads: "If you're one of them". This suggests that the audience is supposed to be a singular person. Not only is the audience a singular person, but they are most likely a person from the England of the 1990s (the setting of the novel) since Kathy supposes that the singular audience member could potentially be a carer.

These are just the facts as I see them. Due to the tone of the novel, I cautiously predict that all this diary nonsense means that Kathy H. has a story that she wishes to share about herself (perhaps with one particular person) that may contain a message or moral of some sort taken from her personal reflection on this story. But then again, maybe not. :)