Mark My Words Kazuo Ishiguro Summary

Kazuo Ishiguro writes about an elderly man and women who are set to go out and find their son. But their mission to go find their son is quite an adventure. The couple is from a village where all their neighbors are enclosed in a mist that makes them all forget what they have done. The mist is the breath of a dragon named Querig but in theory, the mist is God himself forgetting the people. Axl and Beatrice vaguely remember their son but they are convinced that he is waiting for their arrival.
As to the “Mark My Words” thematic analysis, Ishiguro is telling us quite a lot about memory. His tale in the book is about the blessing and curse of one’s memory. Memory is what makes us human. It gives us an historical viewpoint but it can also endure hatred and sadness. Memory deepens are relations with loved ones but it can also stir up resentment. We all have memories, good and bad. In the story, Axl and Beatrice keep having glimpses of their past life that is affected …show more content…
It’s the human way of not forgetting the ones who are no longer here with us. In Death by Landscape, Lois does something similar. In pictures throughout her apartment, which are pictures that display where Lucy went missing, the pictures are keeping Lucy alive in her conscious. On page 2980, Atwood writes “she looks at the paintings, she looks into them. Every one of them is a picture of Lucy. You can’t see her exactly, but she’s there, in behind the pink stone island or the one behind that. In the picture of the cliff she is hidden by the clutch of fallen rocks towards the bottom, in the one of the river shore she is crouching beneath the overturned canoe. In the yellow autumn woods she’s behind the tree that cannot be seen because of the other trees, over beside the blue silver of pond’ but if you walked into the picture and found tree, it would be the wrong one, because the right one would be further