Comparison Between 'Never Let Me Go And The Maze Runner'

The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Maze Runner are the typical dystopian book. And here we have Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, another book that belongs in the category. But this dystopian book isn’t the typical book with just one protagonist way in over his or her head trying to “save” the world. Instead, there are multiple vulnerable protagonists, even though it's being narrated by only one of them throughout the entire book, and comes off as more of a false romantic story. The book follows the love triangle of the protagonist. There Ishiguro creates a whole new meaning to what a dystopian world can also be like and ones that’s much more closer to reality.

When we hear dystopian, we automatically think of fighting for rights, corrupted
society, and huge large physical adventure. Never Let me go consists of all these things, but at a lower scale. The protagonist, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy, are not fighting against the people in power for their rights as a human being, instead they are listening and obeying. They don't have the mindset of wanting to escape or trying to stop a destructive operation, which makes the story very interesting and sort of question the characters a lot.

The long journey that Kathy and the others have to go to become a carer or a donor is a long endless journey carried throughout their entire life.
The clones, childrens, raised in Hailsham were raised to become either one of the two; their goal in life was already decided for them, and it is to be “completed.” The journeys the characters have to go through never ends until they are completed or dead; that’s what they were created to do. The clones were created to fulfill the experiment of the people in power. And also the journey that the clones have to go through are not as harsh and bloody as other dystopias. Usually, the protagonist would go out of it’s way to make a change in the system that they are living in, which is their goal that they were able to decide on, it wasn’t given to them. The journey would usually involve having to fight or runways from the antagonist, which is something that Kathy and the others doesn’t
do.

The setting of the story is more realistically modern and not so much futuristic.
Most likely dystopian stories are set in some sort of time periods in the furthered, when there is nothing left and it’s all about survival. The typical sceneries are usually very filthy and abandoned with everybody being divided up based on something or another. And also, the technology is way over the charts of modern society. In Never Let Me Go, the setting of the story was the complete opposite. It took place way back in the late 1990’s, not in the future. There were people still living everywhere, nothing was abandoned and the scenery was modern; it looks and feels like what today is like. It’s not some thrown up place full of dust and trash with nobody living in it. The “normal” people were living together, nobody was separated from each other or divided into groups based on some nonsense theory. The only people that were separated from the rest of the world were the clones. They were not consider humans even though they look and act like one. They life fulfilling experiment to help the rest of the
world.

With all these differences point out, this book is still consider a dystopian book because of the corrupted society that the clones are living in, the experimenting on the clones and the very subtle life journey. The story tells about an adventure of what an actual dystopian world in the future can actually look like compared to the others. Ishiguro manages to create a world filled with wonders with humanized clones. The book really makes me wonder about what the future is going to be like. Will it be all gruesome full of adventures and fighting for survival? Or will it be very subtle and lonely?