The Day Flashbacks

“The Remains of the Day” is a novel written by Kazuo Ishiguro from the early 1930s until the 1960s/70s. The arc of the story is based on an English Butler named Mr. Stevens who is one of the most dedicated men towards his job. This man gives everything in order to serve his masters. This butler gives up most of his entire life in service to men he believes are “good”. Towards the end of the story, you get this sense that Mr. Stevens starts to feel regret on past events of his life, where he sends most of his timing thinking about things. The film and the book both depict an important aspect of the story, flashbacks. The Flashbacks signify a type of new beginning for Mr. Stevens. The flashbacks start with Mr. Stevens heading on a trip while

The flashbaacks start as soon as the trip starts, but the closer they are to the beginning of the trip the future away in time they were. So as he moves forward on his trip the flashbacks tend to be closer to the present time. This is an extraordinary topic that must be seen. We see a man who has given everything up, including love, social life, and many other things that to serve these masters, and for doing this Mr. Stevens lives in past regretting certain things that he could have done different. For example, the man could have sat with his dying father. Anyway, I believe that the story depicts Mr. Stevens as a “wuss” in the fact that he does not let anyone in, and lives in solitude. Mr. Stevens has no real friends, as a matter of fact he has nothing outside of being a butler. People are blessed with defining moments in their lives that change us, or shape us into a person we are supposed to become. However, this cannot happen if we live in solitude and don’t open-up. Mr. Stevens denies everything, and doesn’t let anyone in at anytime, so when the opportunites arise, he shuts them out, and the moments become history that he cannot change. The trip to see Mrs. Kenton and her denying what he wanted to actually here; her returning to Darlington

The movie starts out with Mr. Stevens master buying a painting, which we seem to think is the present, and then right away the flashbacks start. As soon as he talks to his master about a trip, it all begins. Everything is roughly the same as the novel, but when his trip is over it ends with Mrs. Kenton telling him to enjoy life, and not the old man. Instead of the film ending with Mr. Stevens adding that he will begin to try something new it shows the present time, with Mr. Stevens helping his master hang the picture that was bought in the present time. The movie ends where the movie begin which depicts that the whole story was a flashback, and now Mr. Stevens is living in a happy present