Never Let Me Go Obstacles

Michael Jordan once said “Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” In these two novels the characters experience obstacles that force them to make difficult decisions. Their lives go from ordinary one day to unimaginable the next. In the world humans populate today, it is often seen how the obstacles sprung upon one are hard to overcome. Kazuo Ishiguro's two novels When we were Orphans and Never Let me Go provide one with a plan to overcome these problems. Clearly obstacles can be easily overcome by assessing the extremely tragic situation, accepting it and realizing all the good things present. Throughout this journey of life,
In order to accomplish anything and get further one must learn how to work around those situations and accept them. Even when it is hard to believe what is happening, one must face reality. Simply, things just are the way they are. Christopher's mother had a strong political stand against opium smugglers. But never was it believed that they would ruin her life. She was kidnapped by them and taken to be the leader’s concubine. As terrifying as it must seem, to Christopher it was hard to imagine that the reason he did not grow up with a mother is due to a voice of opinion. “Are you not ashamed, sir? As a Christian,as an Englishman, as man with scruples? Are you not ashamed to be in the service of such a company? Tell me, how is your conscience able to rest while you owe your existence to such ungodly wealth?” (Ishiguro, Orphans 63) Christopher's mother was very persistent. She believed so, she voiced so and she got kidnapped because of so. It was not until years later where he found out that the day he was listening to his mother make her stand on such an opinion was the reason he did not grow up with one. Later on he learned to accept the fact because he had the chance to discuss the event with Uncle Philip, everything became more clear. It became evident why things happened, and that it would have been nearly impossible for him to fix any of them. “Your father ran off one day with his mistress. He lived with her in Hong Kong… Then he got typhoid and died, in Singapore…The detectives? Uncle Phil let out a laugh… wouldn’t have found an elephant gone missing in Nanking Road…” (Ishiguro, Orphans) Banks was a man that learned to live with and around tough situations. When he found out his father really was not kidnapped but actually left the family for another women, Christopher was not pleased. An event like that changes your entire life. Who you are, what you were and what you will become. Kathy was always seen as