What Is The Moral Of Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go proves that humanity is not a quality that can be scientifically judged; it is inherent within any being capable of a conscious and rational existence. Humanity cannot be defined by how a person came to be, it is about what qualities make that person who he or she is. The main characters in the novel live lives complete with human emotion, experiences, suffering, and influence; therefore, the argument that they are not fully human is invalid. The fact that the traditional humans could not accept the clones as people does not serve as basis for the clones to lose their humanity. The uncomfortableness arises from the newness and unfamiliarity of the clones, not within the clones themselves. Further, although
Clones are new and unfamiliar to traditional people, which causes them to come across as frightening and even untouchable. However, this reaction to unfamiliarity is an unfortunate aspect of human nature. African Americans have suffered from this treatment for the entirety of the period of intermingling between blacks and whites. With slavery, segregation, internalized racism, and, more recently, tragedies such as police brutality and job discrimination, the idea that African Americans are less than whites has been forced into the minds of many people across America for centuries. Although there are still improvements that could and should be made to the treatment of black people in America, their plight has improved drastically since the days of of slavery and lynching. In Never Let Me Go, the clones suffer from major discrimination in the questioning of their humanity and act as slaves to traditional people. The novel gives the impression that Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth were among the first of the clones; therefore, the idea of clones would be brand new to the preexisting humans. Just as the idea of races mixing was new and uncomfortable to people in the past, the idea of clones is uncomfortable to the people who lived the majority of their lives without their influence. As Ishiguro says, “You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process” (203). The clones that the novel focuses on grow up during a time where the world is struggling with the newness of them. People’s opinions inevitably will change over time; however, in the