The Ishiguro Method

"She had a sort of half-smile, the sort a mother might have in an ordinary family, weighting things up while the children jumped and screamed around her asking her to say, yes, they could do whatever." -pg 159

The comparison above is one of many, many examples through the novel where Ishiguro uses analogies. Something I have repeatedly begun to notice is the particular sorts of situations he uses them in.Whenever characters are experiencing an epiphany, learn something new, experience a development in emotions or relationships, or notice something new for the first time. In every scenario, the characters are experiencing some sort of growth or development in some area. Ishiguro never uses imagery or comparisons to describe the way someone looks or other arbitrary purposes. The effect produced by Ishiguro's analogies is an analysis of the characters and how they feel about the many situations they are involved in. I even wrote an equation for his method: analogy+development= character analysis. I named it the Ishiguro method.