Lesson 4 The Essence of Being Human
Klara and the Sun
Klara is an AF (Artificial Friend), a ____ robot for children.
She is solar-powered. She stays healthy when she gets the Sun’s nourishment but feels weak and lifeless ____ sunlight.
At the robot ____, she enjoyed taking in the outside world from the windows.
Klara closely ____ what she saw, hoping to learn everything necessary to be a caring and helpful AF.
One evening, she discovered that a homeless ____ was lying on the street without moving.
Klara was sad as she believed he had ____.
But the next morning when the Sun was shining, she was ____ to see that the homeless man was sitting up and stroking his dog.
Klara believed the Sun had ____ him and came to have strong faith in the Sun’s power to restore everything.
One day, a fourteen-year-old girl named Josie visited the shop with her mother, ____.
Josie chatted with Klara joyfully.
Josie immediately took a liking to Klara and asked whether Klara wanted to be her ____.
I really want ____ to come to my home.
I think you’ll like my room, and we’ll see the beautiful sunset from the windows ____.
We can do all the great things together all the time ____ I’m growing up. You want to come, right?
____ so good, but I want to be honest with you.
I know how bad you’ll feel after people promise you perfect things and they ____ out not to be so.
Some days I’m not so healthy or happy. I do ____ know why.
Do you still ____ to come, Klara?
If there’s anything difficult or scary, we will face it ____.
To show that she would do her best to be Josie’s friend, Klara held her hands together and shook them ____.
Pleased by Klara’s gesture of friendship, Josie ____ Chrissie for her permission to buy the AF.
Chrissie asked Klara ____ she had observed about Josie, and found Klara to be highly observant.
After requesting that Klara continue to care about Josie, Chrissie agreed to buy Klara and ____ her home.
In Josie’s country home,
In Josie’s country home, Klara found out that Josie had gone through a ____ known as “lifting.”
By being lifted, Josie’s cognitive abilities had been genetically enhanced so that she had a better ____ of getting into prestigious universities.
However, Josie was ____ from serious side effects similar to those that had claimed the life of her sister, Sal.
A mysterious chronic ____ often caused her to stay in bed for days on end.
Because of this, ____ spent most of her time at home and was being educated there.
One day when Josie ____ better, her mother took her and Klara to the city so that Josie could have her portrait done by Mr. Capaldi.
In Capaldi’s studio, Klara was asked to answer a ____ about Josie.
Looking around the studio after completing the questionnaire, Klara ____ Capaldi’s office.
To her surprise, she saw something that looked like Josie suspended in the ____ was an AF replica of Josie’s body!
As it turned ____, Mr. Capaldi was not a painter but a scientist, who planned with Chrissie to transfer Klara’s consciousness to the replica and make a new Josie if the real Josie were to die.
Klara, tell me what you think ____ the replica.
Klara: It resembles Josie quite accurately.
Mr. Capaldi, you have done a good job of capturing Josie’s ____.
I now understand why Chrissie asked me, at ____ step, to observe and learn Josie.
The survey seems to test how well I have come to know Josie and how ____ I understand her decisions and feelings.
We will ask you to ____ her and to live in that replica of Josie with everything you have learned.
Learn ____, not just superficially, but deeply, entirely.
You ____ to continue her for Chrissie and for everyone else who loves Josie.
I have doubts. I’m still not sure if this whole ____ is the best thing we can do.
I have ____ afraid of losing Josie ever since I lost Sal.
That is why I agreed with you on this replica, but however well you make it, I don’t think I ____ be able to accept this AF as my Josie.
You must not ____ faith, Chrissie.
The survey Klara has successfully ____ is clear evidence that she is already well on her way to understanding all of Josie’s drives and desires.
You believe that there is ____ unreachable inside each of us, something that is unique and won’t transfer.
But there is nothing like that. The new Josie ____ be an imitation.
She will be the exact ____ person and you will have every right to love her just as you love Josie now.
But will I believe in it? ____ the day comes, will I really?
Klara: Excuse me,
Excuse me, but I would like to say ____ is a chance you will never need the new Josie.
She may overcome her ____.
If the day comes when you do need the new Josie, I will do my best to become as ____ to her as possible.
However, it is ____ to give up hope already.
Josie’s health took a turn for the worse after she ____ from the city.
This made Klara ____ to do everything she could for Josie.
Klara remembered the barn into which the Sun had disappeared when she and ____ had been watching the sunset in Josie’s room.
Believing it to be the Sun’s resting place, Klara visited there to pray to the Sun for ____ recovery.
You must be so tired, and I’m very sorry to disturb you, but I have come here this ____ to ask a special favor.
I have ____ forgotten how strong your power to restore everything is.
____ is becoming weaker and weaker each day.
Please send Josie the special nourishment she so desperately requires as you ____ that day to the homeless man.
The Sun was then sinking ____ the ground, but Klara could tell he was smiling at her as he went down for his nightly rest.
Out of gratitude and respect, ____ continued to look at the Sun until his last light vanished into the ground.
After several rainy days,
After several rainy days, the Sun came out to shine light on Josie and her whole ____.
Josie woke up and ____ a miraculous recovery.
Seasons and years went by, and she grew into a healthy ____.
When Josie left for college, Klara was sent to the Yard, a place where ____ AFs spend their remaining days at the end of their lives.
In the Yard, she remembered her ____ with Josie.
Josie was the best ____ for me.
I did all I ____ to learn Josie and to do what was best for her.
If it had ____ necessary, I could have continued Josie.
But I don’t think it would have worked ____ so well.
Not because I ____ have achieved accuracy, but however hard I tried, I believe now there would have remained something beyond my reach.
Mr. Capaldi believed there was nothing special inside Josie, but I believe now that there was something very ____.
But it wasn’t inside Josie. It was inside those who ____ her.
I would have never reached what they felt for Josie in their ____.
I am ____ of this now.