Never Let Me Go Evaluation
Never Let Me Go
The novel Never Let Me Go describes the life of Kathy H., a young woman of 31, focusing at first on her childhood memories with classmates Ruth and Tommy at Hailsham all the way to her life as an adult . The story is told from her point of view of her memories of the past and the present. The story takes place in a Dystopian Britain, from first introduction Kathy who informs the reader that she is a “carer” someone who supports and comforts “donors”, until they submit to “completion”. She takes pride in her work to boast she is the best at what she does. It is not until later that the characters realize they have been created only to provide donor organs for human transplants. The novel is divided in three parts, focusing on the three phases of the lives of its main characters. The first part is set at Hailsham, a boarding school where the children are brought up and receive their education. The guardians encourage the students to produce various forms of art and potery.In the second part, the characters, now young adults, move to the "Cottages", residential complexes where they start to interact with the outside world. The third …show more content…
part describes “ completion” how Tommy and Ruth becomes donors and Kathy becoming a “carer”. Kathy cares for Ruth and then, after Ruth "completes" Kathy takes care of Tommy. Before her death, Ruth expresses regret over coming between Kathy and Tommy, true love and urges them to pursue a relationship .Because of her guilt she informes them that she has obtained information on how they can seek to defer their donations based on their love for one another. Encouraged by Ruth's last wishes, Kathy and Tommy try to seek a deferment only to learn that it is just a bording school rumor. The There are several underlining themes in this book.What seamed to be constant in this novel were how the doaners were treated.They theirselves struggled with acceptance;not only with the outside world but within their own community. Their was a lot of conterversey over the inhumaine treatment of the clones. Kathy , Tommy and Ruth noticed the diffenetrial treatmet between the two class .They were treated like second hand citizens.The things that they were given were old handmedowns .Kathy trys to explaine how she copes with being a human substitute and how the doaners experience the same pleasures and hardships as everybody else experiences though they weren’t meant to. The scientist didnt take their feeling into consideration,the didnt plan on the students going thru puberity or falling in love. The characters are treated with so much care but it also shows how sheltered they were to the rest of society. Even though they were tought early on theat they should feel priviledg to attend Hailsham which is lead to be the best of the best in boarding schools they are still looked down upon as being subhuman. As stated by the Head Mistress"Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?" (Never Let Me Go Track23 ). They have been created to serve the “normal” population. When they reach a certain age, the Doaners are forced to sacrifice their organs. Some Doaners, such as Tommy, can go through four separate operations before they die, or as they call it, are "completed." Their life is doomed form the beginning. They do not discover this until they have graduated from Hailsham that they have no future, no civil rights. In society being a member of an in-group always reminds others that they are merely outsiders and not “one of us”,people are afarid of anything that is different or strays form the normality of they everday lives. Since they were geneticaly engionered humans look down on them ,even though they were the reason for their existence. The clones learn that Hailsham in general was an experiment, an effort to improve the conditions for clones and perhaps alter the attitudes of society.
What struck me about the characters is that they are relative passive. None of the characters have a surnames only the first letter of the surname . They were reaised to be all the same , the lack individuality.When you are first introduced to the children theymimic robots more than children. Normal children are imagionative loud opionated they hacve hopes and dreams.The children from Hailstrum they lack that certain spark, exuberance, rebelliousness. They have no ambition.Their sense of of helplessness and hopelessness grows as one of the Guardians Miss Lucy spells it out for them “None of you will go to America,none of you will be film stars.And none of you will be working in supermarkets as I heard some of you planing the other day.Your lives are ste out for you .You’ll become adults, and then before you’reold,before you are middle aged you will start to donate your vital organs.That’s what each of you were created to do”(Never Let Me Go p. 81).When the “donors” learn that they are up for completion they just accept their fate.Instead of fighting for what little life they have left they realize that their life must now run the course that's been set for it."
The book also discusses how something as simple as love could mean the world to these people.When searching for acceptance love can fill the void.Because Kathy never knew how to handle the feelings that she was experancing she supressed her love for Tommy. Love , something taken so lightly by so many was the key to their freedom, fulfillment; and happiness. In more ways the one, love is explored in such an innocent yet bold manner. Kathy denied her feelings for Tommy Love is emphasized and given grate importance in this book. "Since our lives are so short, it makes you change perspective about what's important. The foreshortened lifespans of Kathy, Ruth and Tommy are meant to invest their loves, losses, mistakes and redemptions with heightened intensity, and thereby to inspire the rest of us to live our lives more heedfully(Gurdian). Although loves dosnt conquer all we learn that it is better to appreciate the things that you do have .Never take you life for granted because you fate is enevable (Time). "I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold on to each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how I think it is with us. It’s a shame, Kath, because we’ve loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can’t stay together forever" (Never Let Me Go).
Ishiguro's is a fabulist, he will provide the the reader with an overload of information.He focuses on the small trials and tribulationsof the charactors.He has a way of saying somthing without actually saying it.
.Ishiguro rang is vast he shows the smallness of his characters world by the enthusiasm they show over the most simplest of things.For example when they were able to exchange they tokens for a bumber crop. The tone he's written for Kathy H. is of romance and sympathy you.Her narration immerses you into a world where the past is also the future where you are : “ being told and not told”. She is naiveté, her inabilities prevent her from interperting what is really going on. .He makes the reader question the meaning of life and contemplates the tragedy of life
wasted.
Mark Romaneck's film of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go is a heart-rending example of a true love story.The film starts off with reflection of Kathy watching Tommy being weeled into the operation room .She looks sad as she is having a flashback of her life.We know the movie that one if not all of the main characters will suffer a cruel fate on their path toward the meaning of life. The casting choice is stellar. Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, and Andrew Garfield manage to nail the chemistries of the characters that they portray. Within the film the light exposure is minium.The tone is dreary using an autumnal color scheme of milk-tea browns and half-hearted turquoises remind me of institutional. The full grey sheen of the shot show the emotionless of each character . The movie and the book are similar only a few thing differ like in the book Tommy and Kathy go looking for her lost tape cassete that he bought for her when they were younger .This small detail is obmitted from the film . The film, like the book before it, chooses not to focuson out the actual construction of the clones and the inhuman policy. Instead it focuses on the psychological and emotional ramifications.Because in the book we are in Kathy head remembering her memories to show this in the movie the director chooses to use a voice over tenique.Placing infancies on language with terms like (after three or four "donations", the "donors" usually "complete" their short lives) to soften the fact the people bodies are being buchared off for parts. In the book they have justification ." We make meaning in our lives through the stories we tell, and sometimes the stories we tell create excuses for cruelty that would cause us otherwise to see ourselves as monsters” (Never Let Me Go Track25).
The novel Never Let Me Go describes the life of Kathy H., a young woman of 31, focusing at first on her childhood memories with classmates Ruth and Tommy at Hailsham all the way to her life as an adult . The story is told from her point of view of her memories of the past and the present. The story takes place in a Dystopian Britain, from first introduction Kathy who informs the reader that she is a “carer” someone who supports and comforts “donors”, until they submit to “completion”. She takes pride in her work to boast she is the best at what she does. It is not until later that the characters realize they have been created only to provide donor organs for human transplants. The novel is divided in three parts, focusing on the three phases of the lives of its main characters. The first part is set at Hailsham, a boarding school where the children are brought up and receive their education. The guardians encourage the students to produce various forms of art and potery.In the second part, the characters, now young adults, move to the "Cottages", residential complexes where they start to interact with the outside world. The third …show more content…
part describes “ completion” how Tommy and Ruth becomes donors and Kathy becoming a “carer”. Kathy cares for Ruth and then, after Ruth "completes" Kathy takes care of Tommy. Before her death, Ruth expresses regret over coming between Kathy and Tommy, true love and urges them to pursue a relationship .Because of her guilt she informes them that she has obtained information on how they can seek to defer their donations based on their love for one another. Encouraged by Ruth's last wishes, Kathy and Tommy try to seek a deferment only to learn that it is just a bording school rumor. The There are several underlining themes in this book.What seamed to be constant in this novel were how the doaners were treated.They theirselves struggled with acceptance;not only with the outside world but within their own community. Their was a lot of conterversey over the inhumaine treatment of the clones. Kathy , Tommy and Ruth noticed the diffenetrial treatmet between the two class .They were treated like second hand citizens.The things that they were given were old handmedowns .Kathy trys to explaine how she copes with being a human substitute and how the doaners experience the same pleasures and hardships as everybody else experiences though they weren’t meant to. The scientist didnt take their feeling into consideration,the didnt plan on the students going thru puberity or falling in love. The characters are treated with so much care but it also shows how sheltered they were to the rest of society. Even though they were tought early on theat they should feel priviledg to attend Hailsham which is lead to be the best of the best in boarding schools they are still looked down upon as being subhuman. As stated by the Head Mistress"Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?" (Never Let Me Go Track23 ). They have been created to serve the “normal” population. When they reach a certain age, the Doaners are forced to sacrifice their organs. Some Doaners, such as Tommy, can go through four separate operations before they die, or as they call it, are "completed." Their life is doomed form the beginning. They do not discover this until they have graduated from Hailsham that they have no future, no civil rights. In society being a member of an in-group always reminds others that they are merely outsiders and not “one of us”,people are afarid of anything that is different or strays form the normality of they everday lives. Since they were geneticaly engionered humans look down on them ,even though they were the reason for their existence. The clones learn that Hailsham in general was an experiment, an effort to improve the conditions for clones and perhaps alter the attitudes of society.
What struck me about the characters is that they are relative passive. None of the characters have a surnames only the first letter of the surname . They were reaised to be all the same , the lack individuality.When you are first introduced to the children theymimic robots more than children. Normal children are imagionative loud opionated they hacve hopes and dreams.The children from Hailstrum they lack that certain spark, exuberance, rebelliousness. They have no ambition.Their sense of of helplessness and hopelessness grows as one of the Guardians Miss Lucy spells it out for them “None of you will go to America,none of you will be film stars.And none of you will be working in supermarkets as I heard some of you planing the other day.Your lives are ste out for you .You’ll become adults, and then before you’reold,before you are middle aged you will start to donate your vital organs.That’s what each of you were created to do”(Never Let Me Go p. 81).When the “donors” learn that they are up for completion they just accept their fate.Instead of fighting for what little life they have left they realize that their life must now run the course that's been set for it."
The book also discusses how something as simple as love could mean the world to these people.When searching for acceptance love can fill the void.Because Kathy never knew how to handle the feelings that she was experancing she supressed her love for Tommy. Love , something taken so lightly by so many was the key to their freedom, fulfillment; and happiness. In more ways the one, love is explored in such an innocent yet bold manner. Kathy denied her feelings for Tommy Love is emphasized and given grate importance in this book. "Since our lives are so short, it makes you change perspective about what's important. The foreshortened lifespans of Kathy, Ruth and Tommy are meant to invest their loves, losses, mistakes and redemptions with heightened intensity, and thereby to inspire the rest of us to live our lives more heedfully(Gurdian). Although loves dosnt conquer all we learn that it is better to appreciate the things that you do have .Never take you life for granted because you fate is enevable (Time). "I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold on to each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how I think it is with us. It’s a shame, Kath, because we’ve loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can’t stay together forever" (Never Let Me Go).
Ishiguro's is a fabulist, he will provide the the reader with an overload of information.He focuses on the small trials and tribulationsof the charactors.He has a way of saying somthing without actually saying it.
.Ishiguro rang is vast he shows the smallness of his characters world by the enthusiasm they show over the most simplest of things.For example when they were able to exchange they tokens for a bumber crop. The tone he's written for Kathy H. is of romance and sympathy you.Her narration immerses you into a world where the past is also the future where you are : “ being told and not told”. She is naiveté, her inabilities prevent her from interperting what is really going on. .He makes the reader question the meaning of life and contemplates the tragedy of life
wasted.
Mark Romaneck's film of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go is a heart-rending example of a true love story.The film starts off with reflection of Kathy watching Tommy being weeled into the operation room .She looks sad as she is having a flashback of her life.We know the movie that one if not all of the main characters will suffer a cruel fate on their path toward the meaning of life. The casting choice is stellar. Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, and Andrew Garfield manage to nail the chemistries of the characters that they portray. Within the film the light exposure is minium.The tone is dreary using an autumnal color scheme of milk-tea browns and half-hearted turquoises remind me of institutional. The full grey sheen of the shot show the emotionless of each character . The movie and the book are similar only a few thing differ like in the book Tommy and Kathy go looking for her lost tape cassete that he bought for her when they were younger .This small detail is obmitted from the film . The film, like the book before it, chooses not to focuson out the actual construction of the clones and the inhuman policy. Instead it focuses on the psychological and emotional ramifications.Because in the book we are in Kathy head remembering her memories to show this in the movie the director chooses to use a voice over tenique.Placing infancies on language with terms like (after three or four "donations", the "donors" usually "complete" their short lives) to soften the fact the people bodies are being buchared off for parts. In the book they have justification ." We make meaning in our lives through the stories we tell, and sometimes the stories we tell create excuses for cruelty that would cause us otherwise to see ourselves as monsters” (Never Let Me Go Track25).