The Memory Police

by

Yoko Ogawa

The Inuis’ Son Character Analysis

On the night that the Inuis show up at the unnamed narrator’s door to tell her they are fleeing, the narrator clips the Inuis’ young son’s fingernails. He removes a pair of sky-blue gloves to let her do this. Later in the story, the narrator knows by the Memory Police have captured the Inuis because she recognizes this same set of gloves in the back of one of the Memory Police’s trucks.

The Inuis’ Son Quotes in The Memory Police

The The Memory Police quotes below are all either spoken by The Inuis’ Son or refer to The Inuis’ Son . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Memory and Connection  Theme Icon
).
Chapter 22  Quotes

I’d heard rumors that people who had been hiding were forced to wander the streets when their homes were destroyed by the earthquake or the fires that followed it. And that the Memory Police had been rounding them up and taking them into custody one after the other. But I had no way to know whether the Inui family had actually been in that truck or not. All I could do was pray that someone had continued to cut the little boy’s fingernails and that the blue gloves were still protecting him.

Related Characters: The Unnamed Narrator (speaker), The Memory Police , Professor Inui, The Inuis’ Son
Page Number: 207
Explanation and Analysis:
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The Inuis’ Son Quotes in The Memory Police

The The Memory Police quotes below are all either spoken by The Inuis’ Son or refer to The Inuis’ Son . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Memory and Connection  Theme Icon
).
Chapter 22  Quotes

I’d heard rumors that people who had been hiding were forced to wander the streets when their homes were destroyed by the earthquake or the fires that followed it. And that the Memory Police had been rounding them up and taking them into custody one after the other. But I had no way to know whether the Inui family had actually been in that truck or not. All I could do was pray that someone had continued to cut the little boy’s fingernails and that the blue gloves were still protecting him.

Related Characters: The Unnamed Narrator (speaker), The Memory Police , Professor Inui, The Inuis’ Son
Page Number: 207
Explanation and Analysis: