Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, The Remains of the Day, is the anecdote told about farmers and their emotions regarding the slaughtering of animals that they have reared since birth. Emotions, and the way that people deal with them, is one of the principle themes of Ishiguro's work. The crux of the aforementioned quotation is the fact that despite the sentiment that farmers become adjusted to killing their animals, in reality "that's just not true," and the son of a farmer "cried for days" (Ishiguro 169) following the killing of an animal with which he had become close. What this quotation actually suggests is that most people (particularly adults) become very good at hiding their emotions. However, as the crying of the young boy in this passage implies, they are merely hiding such emotions and still feel them strongly, and struggle to cope with them and contain them. There are a number...
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