Theme Of Never Let Me Go

Why is the novel entitled Never Let Me Go? Can you think of a better title?

The Never Let Me Go contains a wide variety of overlapping and recurring themes, which makes it an especially interesting novel to read. An especially interesting and obvious theme that novel’s title shares with its own narrative is the theme of “never letting go”. This rampant theme of hope and innocence can be observed in many instances which relate to the Judy Bridgewater song, Kathy and Tommy’s quest to receive a deferral, and Tommy’s analysis of his relationship with Kathy.

Near the beginning of the novel, Kathy listens to a song by Judy Bridgewater which symbolically shares the novel’s title, Never Let Me Go. As Kathy listens to the song, she pretends to cradle a baby and as Madame sees this, she believes that Kathy is desperately trying to hold on to a society which supported the rights of clones, which was being attacked by the cruel medical industry that would slowly kill Kathy and all of the other children who she protected at Hailsham. In this sense, Madame believed that Kathy was trying to “never let go” of her individual rights and her future in society. What ultimately caused Madame to cry was the fact that Kathy, at that age, was ignorant of the horrible
The couple had theorized the possibility of a deferral for many years and once Tommy had completed his third donation, they finally gathered the resolve to pursue a deferral. Unfortunately, Kathy and Tommy would once again be deprived of hope as they would find out from Madame that their theory regarding deferrals was incorrect. Kathy and Tommy tried their best to never let go of their hope in receiving a deferral, but the society in which they inhabited had once again deprived them of their desire to lead a healthy and free