What did you make of Klara's personification of the Sun, particularly in her final plea to save Josie?
She observes in the layers of glass "that in fact there existed a different version of the Sun's face on each of the glass surfaces . . . Although his face on the outermost glass was forbidding and aloof, and the one immediately behind it was, if anything, even more unfriendly, the two beyond that were softer and kinder" (273).
Have you ever experienced nature and other nonhuman entities in a similar way? What value does this have in our ability to experience compassion for each other?