Never Let Me Go

The book, “Never Let Me Go” (NLMG) by Kazuo Ishiguro, is about three friends named Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy, who were students at a school called Hailsham. Hailsham was a place with mysterious rules and teachers who were constantly on the watch of the students. Everyone at Hailsham was destined to become carers and donors, which was their only purpose in living. This was the case because Kathy and all of her other classmates at Hailsham were clones. They were created only to donate their organs and die which was what donors were. Carers were those who assisted donors who became weak after surgery. Society defined those at Hailsham as not human, which was why they were treated like monsters. Rights were given to humans through official documents.
The first, from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), says that the society the person lives in should help to develop and make the most of all advantages provided. The other right is from the Declaration of the Rights of the Child (DRC). It claims that children should be taught peace, understanding, tolerance, and friendship among all people. Kathy and her classmates at Hailsham had certain traits like intelligence and desire, which go hand in hand with the two human rights that were mentioned before. Clones were entitled to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Declaration of the Rights of the Child because they, too, had characteristics, such as desire and intelligence, and were therefore, human. First of all, Kathy and the other clones were entitled to the UDHR because they desired to accomplish different tasks, which was human nature. The clones at Hailsham including Kathy, had many desires, including having
Clones weren’t seen as being human because society had already classified the way humans should have acted, looked, lived, and thought. Ishiguro displayed clones as not human, by pointing out the fact that they weren’t born naturally into the world. However, humans shouldn’t have been defined as human by the way they were born, but rather the way they acted and thought. The clones had many traits shared by humans, such as desire and intelligence. Considering the clones acted, looked, lived, and thought the same way humans did, they too should have been given the rights humans were given. This just showed that society was too afraid to stand up in an attempt to change the current standards and views on what made up a human. The right previously mentioned in the DRC, explaining how children must be taught certain traits, and the right mentioned in the UDHR, saying the society one lives in must allow him or her to accomplish their dreams, weren’t enforced, and needed to be. These rights were violated because Kathy and the other classmates at Hailsham were human, but they weren’t ever given the opportunity to express themselves the way “traditional humans”