The novel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

People are different in many ways, they may have small figures, be tall, get tired, sweat when it’s hot, and eat normal foods. In the book, The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda, normal does not exist, well not exactly. This book is a fiction book taking place in a simple town. Gene is the only human to be alive from the vampires taking over the world. No one knows how it started and no one knew how to end it. Gene’s Father was bitten 7 years ago and his mother and sibling were killed many years before that. His father trained Gene to “blend in.” Since he couldn’t fight the vampires, he would take his father’s tips like: never smile or show emotion, never let the see you sweat, bathe frequently to keep the human stench off, never show any twitches or yawn, always keep all body hair shaved, and keep fangs polished and looking new. His plan has worked so far, blending into high school until a simple girl who he believed was a vampire showed interest in him. This story is 3rd point of view.

You: an introduction written by Michael Jensen is a great book that goes into depth to answering questions such as, “Who are you really?”, “What are you supposed to be like?” and “What-or whose-purpose do you serve?” (Page 7). Jensen is a very knowledgeable with the way he talks in his book and was also a Church Planter at Moore College. He relates greatly to the Bible and his own sources of knowledge, including quotes from other people “a guy called Walter Truett Anderson says ‘Consumption is now inseparable from identity’” (Page 10).

Ursula K. Le Guin is an award winning author who has made great contributions to the science fiction genera. Le Guin’s stories often evoke readers to view society through a different lens. In the short story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Le Guin challenges societies conventions of imagination and believability within a narrative. I will argue, that the story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin, intertwines two contradictory story worlds in an attempt to critique the limitations we impose on our imagination due to the understanding that we have never experienced a society that does not poses evil. I intend to analyze the rules of the two following story worlds that Le Guin presents; the first story world where happiness is the only thing that the inhabitants experience and the second story world where happiness is experienced when evil presents itself in the society. The two story worlds come together to push the readers to accept a world that simply functions on its own without evil.

The use of diction and metaphor in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go emphasizes on the social inequalities in the dystopian society. At this point in the novel, Kathy is reflecting on her childhood at Hailsham, specifically upon the moment when she and the rest of the clones realize that they are different. The clones/children come across this epiphany when they decide to crowd around Madame to see her reaction. Better transition to this sentence? Ishiguro’s use of the phrase, “the moment when you realize that you really are different to them…who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you” (Ishiguro 36) highlights the obvious distinction between humans and clones. The expression “shudder at the thought” demonstrates the amount

The consequences of excessive desire to be someone else, a recurring theme I evaluated from an accumulation of texts ‘All the bright places’ written by Jennifer Niven, ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’ directed by Anthony Minghella, Gattaca directed by Andrew Niccol and Catch me if you can directed by Steven Spielberg. To examine this theme in detail to further an understanding of how the same theme can be expressed in a number of ways, I used three questions to help develop a conclusion-, has society alienated the protagonist and if so how, how does the characters struggle with their identity , also what consequences this desire has caused.

The history of publishing has been plagued with literary hoaxes — from the somewhat harmless Ern Malley hoax to the most recent Belle Gibson scandal. Unfortunately literary hoaxes will continue to happen, unless publishers begin to fact check manuscripts before publication. Publishers claim they are unable to do this due to the financial cost of the procedure and this is a believable claim. If you spoke to an average person they would say that the print industry is dying, thanks to the rise of digital technology, and there has been a downturn in profits.

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

Letting Go by Atul Gawande provides an intriguing perspective on people’s stubborn expectations from the healthcare system. What should medicine do when it can’t save your life? Most everyone seems to believe they should fight to the bitter end, until they can’t possibly have anymore tubes coming out of them or medications going in. Gawande suggests that state of being is no longer living, so he raises the question of why people do it to themselves or their families. Gawande also provides the benefits of hospice care such as discontinuing medications. When patients stop fighting and start accepting the time they have, they gain more.

In Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, while the genetic makeup of the model does have some bearing on the life of the clone, it is severely limited by the increased importance of individual experience in the development of identity and personality. In order to be perfectly identical clones in all aspects, mental and physical, every facet of the clone’s life must mirror that of the model precisely. While identical genetics play a very important role in not only determining physical appearance but also intelligence, as well as any predisposition for developing certain diseases and disorder, any effect genetics has on the mental development of a clone, the clone’s differing experiences throughout his or her formative years overpower it. Experience

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.

Their differences, whether genetic or racial, become a sole marker of identification. When Kathy pleads to delay her donations with Madame, a periodic outside visitor of Hailsham and a representation of the non-clone society, Kathy notices the cold, indifferent treatment. She remarks, “I don't know if she recognized us at that point; but without doubt, she saw and decided in a second what we were”(Ishiguro 248). Madame instantly identifies Kathy as an object rather than a person, thus reflecting society’s decision to dehumanize Kathy and other clone characters. Ishiguro continues to emphasize how certain features define humanness with his careful selection of descriptive details for each character. While he carefully refrains from any racial descriptions of the clones, their characterization mimics those who have been historically discriminated. The clone’s treatment from society “appears little different from the contemporary exploitation of nonwhite workers, who are often reduced simply to bodies that carry out various forms of undesirable and poorly paid labor” (Gill 848). Similar to racial minorities, Kathy and her peers are not seen for their humanity but for their application to serve society. Their defining characteristics, whether racial or biogenetic, becomes a tool to maintain societal order and

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.

Patrick D. Hopkins explains how the pathological motives of the cloner could be unpredictable (1). The technology behind cloning could get into the wrong hands and be used for the wrong reasons very easily. “It is not surprising that people who desire cloning - who by definition want to copy themselves or others are considered misguided” (Hopkins,4). Someone could clone the embryo of their child and give birth to the same person years after the first, or someone could give birth to their own cloned embryo in the future, we can only imagine the problems and even emotional disturbances this could cause. “I think that we all have the right to our individual genetic identity, and this could very well violate that right” (Callahan, 3). The intentional creation of genetic replicas could deny someone their

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.