Kazu Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

I am writing to address the problem I have with cloning. Therapeutic and Reproductive cloning is a waste of money and time. Why would you pay fifty thousand american dollars to clone something or someone that won’t be an exact copy? Every person or animal in the world is made for a reason, so why make a clone if you’re one of a kind.

Just because someone wasn’t made by man or created by two human beings doesn’t mean they’re not human or express human characteristics. Throughout the novel, the author shows us ways how the humans discredit the clones, basically reminding them they will never be like them and they are at there in the world to only be donors and that’s it. To the humans, the clones are there for one reason and one reason only to be beneficial to the society, while the clones want to feel accepted and envision a future for their selves but are reminded that it will never happen for them. The clones want to experience things that humans do and venture the outside world and see what it’s like but at the end of the day it’s just a fairytale to them. The humans want to make it clear that they will never prevail in life at nothing other than being a donor and a success to society. Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go address certain conflicts and roadblocks of the clones through the clones versus humans motif, whereas the clones have feelings and want to envision their future like a human but the humans stay trying to remind them that they’re not and dehumanize them by making them feel different.

But things are completely different at the Cottages. There, being able to drive means the students can go on road trips whenever they want. They can see the outside world. Then when she becomes a carer,

Cloning body parts has the ability to save many lives around the world. According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services tently people die a day waiting for an organ transplant. Cloning creates vital organs which can stop people from suffering. People are in that waiting list for years hoping they receive that heart, lung, liver, and or other body parts. Society now has the option to help and create.There will not be anymore unneeded surgeries performed, no more waiting, but

Identity forms one of the central themes in both texts, shaping the decisions and experiences of the Replicants and the clones throughout their lives. Ishiguro and Scott foreground the lack of identity afforded to the pseudo-human characters through their status as products and the manifestations of this in their names, memories, and pasts. The students at Hailsham, the school where clone children are raised in

They are forced not to live a normal life, not to love, or not to have feelings as other adults. Humans created these “clones” for one purpose, to donate and nothing else. In contrast, according to a snippet of Deuteronomy 28:11, “the lord will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb” (Holy Bible NIV, 110) reveals God’s prosperous plan of success for his creations. God isn’t deteriorating the minds of his creation by saying “you lives are predestined to donate and then you die”. He wants his creation to be happy and have victory.

However, when Clarisse McClellan, an adolescent girl who describes herself using the word “crazy”, crosses his path, Guy is forced to question himself, his relationship with his wife, Mildred, and the society which supports their values. Now that his eyes are open, Guy realizes that he would no longer be content living with his eyes closed. In Never Let me Go, Ishiguro’s protagonist, Kathy H., reminisces on what she considers to have been a joyful childhood while living at Hailsham, before she enters the donation process and prepares herself for certain death. Kathy, like her childhood friends Tommy and Ruth, is a clone whose sole function in society is to donate her organs. The principle of Hailsham, Mrs. Emily, educates the students about art, relationships and humanity, yet the topic of the donations remains a social taboo. In her adult years, Kathy comes to realize that to a society which depends on the donated organs of clones to cure diseases, she is not a human, but a collection of organs. Bradbury and Ishiguro use interactions with other characters to drive their Protagonist to the realization that they are living in a dystopian world. The protagonists in both novels realize the truths of their worlds through interactions with flat characters, round characters, and the

Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go feature two young women, Sabbath Lily Hawks and Kathy H., whose nontraditional childhoods affect their relationships with others, their self-confidence, and their perception of family. While Sabbath and Kathy both come from abnormal homes, their respective upbringings inform the way they relate to the world and how they show affection. Sabbath will show love and attention towards anyone or anything. Kathy becomes giving in every sense of the word: a member of an organ farm, she is internally and eternally magnanimous. Her charity extends to her emotionality as she puts herself behind those whom she cares about, like her friends Ruth and Tommy. Structurally and emotionally, a “traditional” family is consistent, dependent, supportive, and trustworthy and because Sabbath and Kathy did not have traditional families, they must go to extremes in order to feel important, loved, and wanted.

Cloning has never been the answer if you have lost somebody or something.There could be problems while the cloning process is happening and the clone could come out wrong. The clone could have something wrong that it could die and kill the person it was cloned after. The people of the world think that a kid

The novel Never Let Me Go, written by Kazuo Ishiguro, is set in a capitalistic, dystopian society in which scientific advancements have greatly relieved society of their medical concerns, all the while, severely damaged their integrity. The exploitation of human clones for the sole purpose of implementing a sufficient number of organs for society has resulted in a change in their ethics, as well as their ego. In Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro uses characters to illuminate corruption in society, illustrating that greed in the pursuit of progress can negatively alter the mindset of society. By living in a capitalistic environment, one will develop a fatalist mentality in an attempt to come to terms with society and their

In the novel, Ms. Lucy, a teacher at Hailsham, the boarding school all the clones in the novel were studying at, tells the clones that “You were brought into this world for a purpose, and your futures, all of them, have been decided” (73). This shows how society has the power to create the clones and decide their fates. It is also unfair in a way that society marked their purposes before they even have the opportunity to explore life like all human beings and choose what they want to do themselves. They also did not give the clones any basic human rights. At the end, when the main characters, Kathy and Tommy, tried to go against their fates and asked for a deferral from the donation program, madame tells them that they cannot go against society and their lives must now run the course that’s been set for it” (243), which shows little power they have against society and how they cannot change their fate. The author also uses this quote to prove that society has full control of the clones’ lives and treat them unfairly. The description of society’s power throughout this novel shows how the minorities, which are the clones in this case, have no power to decide their own fate and are treated

5) Clones could be produced to provide organs for transplants admittedly, transplant that could jeopardize or even end a clone's life.

How do you classify rather someone is human or not? A tricky question has many different possible answers, but only a few that could be justified as being human. Kazuo Ishiguro has addressed this topic in his book Never Let Me Go. A reoccurring question throughout the novel is rather or not these clones are considered a human being or just another science project. Suspicious individuals of the surrounding communities in the novel, believed that the students were not human, because they could not reproduce, they did not have any parents, and for the slight fact that what the students were going through was morally unacceptable. In my opinion, Ishiguro shows that the clones are indeed human, because of their artwork, which proves that

The children are raised by guardians and treated as normal children. All their needs are attended to and the children are unknowingly spoiled. Hailsham is a perfect atmosphere for children to be raised, and the students believe their lives are perfect. Their knowledge of the outside world is minimal. Guardians only teach them enough to survive the two-three years they must fend for themselves living in the Cottages. The students are told horror stories of the world outside Hailsham. The students are constantly praised and told they are special. They do not know they are being raised to give away their organs. The students feel that their lives are perfect based on the knowledge they have of the outside. As Kathy says to her friends while at Hailsham “Children out there don’t have enough to eat or even beds to sleep in, so hush Ruth we’re the lucky ones”(Ishiguro 27). The students are brought up with an almost spoiled entitlement. The truth was kept from the children by extreme means. Those who visited Hailsham from the outside world were not allowed to speak about the outside world. One guardian Miss Lucy attempted to tell the students the reality of their futures. Most were too blinded by the lessons they had been taught as children to understand their fate. However, as Ms. Emily spoke more bluntly they began to understand and ear their futures. She was fired shortly after this and they did not speak of her

Everyday many people are put on the organ transplant list. Currently there are “around 120,000 people in the United States are currently on the waiting list for a lifesaving organ transplant” (Facts). This is just statistics on the United States, not the whole world. When a family member becomes ill due to organ failure, it is detrimental to their loved ones. The fear of the person not being around anymore starts to sink in, and possible solutions to prevent death come to the table. Doctors are bombarded with questions and treatment plans to prolong the person’s life so they are able to receive a transplant. Depending on what organ is needed it can take anywhere from “four months to five years to receive an organ” (Understanding). In this time of panic the dying individual can have mixed feelings. Some people they come to terms with what is going on, their body is giving up on them and it is their time, but how is this mentality easily kept when someone watches their loved ones not accepting the fate? Instead of waiting months or years for an organ transplant, why not take the route of having an organ cloned? Even with the risks, the option of cloning seems more appealing than possibly years of waiting, or death. If it were a middle aged father faced