Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

One common theme between good and bad priests is that the vocation they were called to never seems to completely leave them. This is a common theme in Silence, by Shusaku Endo. In the beginning of the novel, the reader discovers that Ferreiera apostatized, giving up not only his roles as a priest but his faith in God as well. Although Ferreira abandoned the priesthood and gave up shepherding the few Catholics of Japan, he still continues “to be useful to others, [which] was the one wish and the only dream of one who had dedicated himself to the priesthood” . However, once he is reunited with Sebastian, “there flashed into his eyes a servile smile and momentary shame”. Here Ferreiera feels as though he has failed Sebastian because if he had not apostatized, Sebastian, acting as a good priest, would never have gone to Japan to save him.

If I stay, which is an outstanding novel written by Gayle Forman, was published in 2009 and is an emotionally gripping story. The most interesting part of the novel starts with Mia’s life after the accident. The readers also learn about her life before the tragedy with the help of plentiful flashbacks. She recalls her colorful and vibrant family members so vividly that they could easily step off the page and break the hearts of the readers. Furthermore, her remembrances also highlight her passion for music and romance with her boyfriend. Moreover, the readers will find the entire novel very interesting and inspiring and will also find the climax of the novel very satisfying. The story revolves around seventeen year old Mia, who finds herself dealing with the aftermath of a terrible car accident which killed her entire family. During the coma, Mia goes through an out-of-the-body experience and observes all her friends and family that gather at the hospital. The memory of Mia flashes before her and she debates about whether or not she should wake up and face the grief of losing her family or, if she should die. Before summarizing the story, it is pertinent that the main characters of the story should be discussed briefly.

First, we must determine what emotions are. Are they different for every being, or felt in the same way? Merriam-Webster defines emotion as “a conscious mental reaction (as anger or fear) subjectively experienced as strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body.” As award-winning scientist Mark Bekoff states in his book The Emotional Lives of Animals, emotions are psychological phenomena that help in behavioral management and control (6). Another word that I will use from this point on to describe the event of cognitive feelings and emotions in animals is sentience. Again Merriam-Webster states that sentience is “the capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively.”

Michael Gow's play, "Away" expresses the idea of going through changes and receiving help from people around you. The key characters of the play experiences change and renewal as a result of their relationships with others ad the summer vacation. Coral and Gwen is two characters that undergo the most changes throughout the trip. Coral manage to moved on from her's son death while Gwen changed from a snobby person to a person who is more understandable. Tom is one of the critical character that help Coral and Gwen realised their issues and surpasses it. The play showed lives of people and their own struggle during the 60s and how they overcome it.

Jamie Fader’s book Falling Back which was published in 2013, is based on ethnographic research over three years, from 2004 to 2007, of black and latino males on the edge of adulthood and that were incarcerated at the Mountain Ridge Academy reform school located in a rural area: “within a dense forest in western Pennsylvania, is Mountian Ridge Academy … ninety-acre campus contains eight dormitories, each of which houses thirty-two young men between ages 14 to 18” (p.1). The criminal thinking approach was intended to help young people identify the patterns that had led them to delinquency and replace it with corrective and prosocial thoughts. These young boys had been involved in drug offenses and violence within their suburban communities and were now in the process of behavioral change in order to help them reflect and be able to make better decisions which would lead them to a better life.

Let the Water Hold Me Down by Michel Spurgeon is written in a very unique and skillful way of the realities of being of human, and dealing with loss and grief, guilt and longing, loyalty and love. These psychopathologies affect the readers and present a different way of seeing the text. By applying critical theory to this novel, not only the reader but the main character, Hank Singer, gets a different perspective, a new lens after making several changes in his life. Critical theory helps individuals observe from an unusual angle and learn things in new ways, different from his or her typical way of viewing things. It opens up new lenses, and through this new lens, it can lead to new understanding or unfortunately, make things harder to understand. "Knowledge is what constitutes our relationship to our world, for it is the lens through which we view our world"Tyson states if the lens is changed, the view and the viewer may be changed as well.

4. Upon returning home to her grandmother's house, Tess was alarmed to find that the dog Vito had destroyed her pixiebell plant. This plant was extremely special to her because it was the last piece of her mom's life. Tess's grandpa had originally planted the seed more than 60 years ago, and it was passed down to Tess's mother. Taking good care of the plant, Tess's mom had allowed to plant to live healthily until the day she died. From that point on, Tessa felt like it was her responsibility to keep the plant alive; thus, she was distraught to see the plant splattered on the floor. With the help of her grandmother, Tessa repotted

Holding Onto the Air an autobiography by Suzanne Farrell takes the reader backstage in the dramatic life of the world-renowned Balanchine ballerina. From her childhood in Cincinnati to her retirement from ballet in 1989, Farrell's story is truly a remarkable one. The book describes at length her time with the New York City Ballet as well as her complex relationship with the legendary Balanchine. Although Mrs. Farrell goes a bit too far into the ballet descriptions, her beautiful imagery allows reader to experience the joy of performing on stage.

Literature has a crucial role in configuring the nature and limits of the human (Bennett and Royle. 2009 p. 252) and what it means to be human. Both texts, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, challenge the traditional definition of the human. According to Oxford Dictionaries Online (p. 1), ‘Human’ relates to or characteristics of human kind for example, the human body and the complex nature of the human mind. It also states being susceptible to weakness. The characters, Frankenstein’s monster in Frankenstein and the students in Never Let Me Go, both texts fit into some categories of the human however differ slightly from the actual human by challenging the traditional definition.

Throughout Kazu Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, he choices to depict children as outsiders to the world which can be furthered by the setting in Britain’s countryside because it helps give a sense distance from true reality. In the framework throughout his novel Ishiguro focuses on three main characters Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy. These three students are seen by others to have an advantage because they were lucky enough to be raised at Hailsham by the guardians. Over the watchful eye of the Guardians the children were able to grow accustom to being different than others. This can be seen when the characters all mature and grow after they leave Hailsham and become accustomed to life at the cottages. There newly found freedoms at the

In Nigeria where Anatsui lives, recycling is a way of life as no scrap of material goes to waste, inspiring him to create using discarded metals. In this art piece “Between Earth and Heaven” Anatsui used thousands of aluminum seals and caps from liquor bottles that he transformed into strips with help of up to 20 assistants at time. Each individual cap and seal was bent, flattened, folded, and twisted into strips and then woven them together using the copper wire. And if you look closely each piece reflect its original color and the brand labels are still legible.

Kazuo Ishiguro depicted two completely different scenes in Chapter 1 of the book Never Let Me Go. The first scene is chilling and abnormal to our own society, in which Kathy working as a carer for dying donors who were children in schools like Hailsham. While mentioning her own childhood when Kathy and other girls staying in the pavilion watching and talking about boys playing football, the scene is just like what it should be in normal school. These people, including the main characters, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy who are all from Hailsham, are facing their cruel future. Thus, becoming donors brings about contrast between their childhood and their current situation.

When you start to read the first words of a book by Jeff Zentner, you immediately become entranced by it. Especially with his second novel Goodbye Days, page after page you want to know more of what’s to come and it’s not an easy book to put down.

Art is the oldest and most basic form of self expression used by humans and can take shape in many different forms. In Kazou Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go”, it is a reoccurring topic that has many interesting values to both the characters and the readers. Kazuo Ishiguro uses art as an evolving theme that differentiates its function as to how it is required by Kath, Tommy, and Ruth as they grow up and how they relate to being human while remaining outliers from society.

We ask a question of who we are as both individuals and as humans are brought up in studies of addressing the crisis surrounding this subject area of science in regards to clones. In the novel “Never Let Me Go,” by Kazuo Ishiguro he addresses the issue about clones and how they grow up in an institution meant to get the students ready to conquer in a human environment. Ishiguro’s novel “Never Let Me Go” serves an approach to the “Cloning argument. In the novel a character named Kathy H was one of the primary ones who was cloned along with a few others. This helps us to answer the question of how clones should be treated in relation to human verses non-human concept, as Ishiguro attempts to define humanity through the eyes of Kathy H., a clone with experiences much like that of any ordinary human out there. Through the analysis of Ishiguro novel and the article “Science fiction and legal reality,” discussing the link between human and clones and how in relationship to Ishiguro’s approach to the matter of cloning plays a part in Human like life form. I will seek to interpret and answer to the often yet odd question: what does it intend to be like a man in the tangible world of manipulation of clones? “I don’t agree upon this article of Cloning and the research and how it pertains to the novel “Never Let Me Go”, as I fully don’t believe in the cloning procedure for humans to have to work through this process in life, like the characters in the novel had to suffice.