Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

The Remains is a sad and depressing book whose main theme is a satire about the British class system. That Stevenson─the pathetic exemplar of the class of British butlers─chooses duty over filial obligation when his father dies reveals the deep psychological damage that has been inflicted on an entire class of British human beings. When Stevenson shows pride in his understanding of the word dignity--as having shallow knowledge, good diction, and be opinionless--one can only feel contempt and sorrow for such a character. One cannot help but be awed at the wisdom of our founding fathers that banned nobility titles and class distinctions in our Constitution. Thanks to that Americans and foreigners alike have a go at owning assets and wealth in this country, and if one of your assets is land--then you can be a landowner, too! Back to main page The writing techniques I employ in this article are all explained in Mary Duffy's writing manual: www.write rivetingprose.com Tags:book-review book-reviews writing science-fiction-writing writing-children's-books fiction-writing biography- writing publishing-writing publish-writing writing-published writing-career writing- nonfiction writing-and-publishing the-book-on-writing fantasy-writing writing-story writing-short-story selling-writing writing-course novel-writing romance-writing romantic-writing online-fiction-writing tips-for-writing script-writing writing-novels tips-on-writing book-on-writing travel-writing writing-tips writing-reviews life-story-writing ebook-writing writing-ebooks writing-teens writing-magazine novel-writing-tips writing-short-stories fantasy-novel-writing writing-fantasy-fiction mystery-writing writing-coaches writing-workshops manuscript-writing books-on-writing memoir-writing writing-autobiography writing-guide Augustine, City of God Austen J, Pride and Prejudice Austen J, "Marriage Proposals and Me" Austen J, Emma Borges, The Aleph C. Bronte, Jane Eyre Burroughs E,Tarzan Cervantes, Don Quijote Chaucer, Wife of Bath Coelho P,The Alchemist Coyle H, They Are Soldiers Dante, New Life Dickens C, David Copperfield Dostoevsky, Crime&Punishment ConanDoyle,Hound of Baskervilles Dubner S, Superfreakonomics DuMaurier D, Rebecca Ellis B. E. American Psycho Fitzgerald S, Great Gatsby Flaubert G, Madame Bovary Fleming I,Doctor No Freud S, Leonardo Da Vinci Friedan B, Feminine Mystique GarciaMarquez, Of Love & OtherDemons GarciaMarquez,OneHundredYrs Guerrero M,ThePoison Pill Grass G, The Tin Drum Harris T, Hannibal Rising Heidegger M,House of Being Ishiguro K, Remains of The Day Johnson S,Rasselas Kafka,Metamorphosis Kosinski J, The Painted Bird Lee H,To Kill a Mockingbird McBain Ed,Gutter and Grave Murakami H,Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Nabokov V, Lolita Meyer, S, Twilight Ortega,Dehumanization of Art Poe E A, Gordon Pym Prose F, Reading Like a Writer Rushdie S,Midnight Children Sabatini R, Scaramouche Spark M, Prime of Miss Brodie Stendhal, Red and Black Sterne L,Tristram Shandy Stevenson R, Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde Stoker B, Dracula Thackeray W,History of Pendennis Tolstoy L, Anna Karenina Trollope A, Autobiography Unamuno M, Tragic Sense of Life Voltaire, Candide Webb J, Fields of Fire Wharton E, The House of Mirth Woolf V, To The Lighhouse The secrets of 'no-doze' prose: Mary Duffy's Sentence Openers Image via Wikipedia Lindsey Vonn Back to main page

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