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What is the mood of the story? How does Ishiguro create this atmosphere?
The mood is mysterious and a little ominous. While the characters reserved actions help to set the mood, Ishiguro strengthens this atmosphere through the setting. The story opens with death - the narrator's mother was killed slowly and painfully by the poisonous fugu fish. The narration then jumps ahead by two years. The son and father arrive home from the airport in the late afternoon, "The sun had sunk low and much of the garden had fallen into shadow."
These shadows serve as a basis for the continuing slightly ominous atmosphere: the garden grows darker and darker as the siblings discuss the...
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