Never Let Me Go Critical Analysis

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In Never Let Me the dystopian alternate world takes place in the English countryside during the late 1990s. The novel begins by capturing the life of Hailsham, a mysterious boarding school designed to raise "special" students by inevitably dooming them to a determined fate of relinquishing their internal organs at some stage during their adult lives. As they grow older, the former students are sent across the country to complete their given tasks which are aided by specific "training" and eventually relocation to different hospitals in order to becoming a donor or "carer"- a nurse or helper for the donor before becoming one himself. Disturbing and unquestionably inhumane as it may sound; Ishiguro focuses far more on the emotional side of his characters by developing very sensitive relationships between the "clones", as they reflect upon their childhoods and set out to find answers to the many secrets and questions that revolve around the isolated gates of Hailsham. As a result, numerous …show more content…

In “ Never Let Me Go “ kathy and her friends are living in their own world, separated from society in a secluded and secretive place. The theme of freedom and freewill is shown when kathy and her friends were younger, they can’t leave hailsham’s safe bubble world. but as they get older, they gain more freedom. they can drive, take roads trips and have some adventures. but even with this freedom. they know that they are barriers that they can’ be seen “ There were some who thought it stupid to be concerned about possibles at all. our models were an irrelevance, a technical necessity for bringing us into the world, nothing more than that. it was up to each of us to make of our lives what we could “ (Ishiguro 92). The dystopia has come to represent a society in which the individuals are repressed and their personal freedom is lost. Also the people are controlled through several means in order to maintain a stable society and this is clear through the theme of freedom and free

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