Never Let Me Go Essay Notecards – Flashcards
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"I don't know how it was where you were, but at Hailsham we had to have some form of medical almost every week." Shows us that Kathy is talking to other doners. Ishiguro 13
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"It's not good that I smoked. It wasn't good for me so I stopped it. But what you must understand is that for you, all of you, it's much, much worse to smoke than it ever was for me. You've been told about it. You're students. You're . . . special." (Miss Lucy) Ishiguro 68
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"It's just as well the fences at Hailsham aren't electrified. You get terrible accidents sometimes." Ishiguro 78
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Miss Lucy tells the students of Hailsham the reality of their future and what the are expected to do, they won't fulfill their dreams. All they will do is donate their organs. Ishiguro 81
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"...we were always just too young to understand properly the latest piece of information. But of course we'd take it in at some level, so that before long all this stuff was there in our heads without us ever having examined it properly." Ishiguro 82
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"We all know it. We're modeled from trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps. Convicts, maybe, just so long as they aren't psychos. That's what we come from. We all know it, so why don't we say it?" Ishiguro 166
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"I remember a huge tiredness coming over me, a kind of lethargy in the face of the tangled mess before me. It was like being given a math problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up. " Ishiguro 195
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"How could he possibly know what Chrissie would have felt? What she would have wanted? It wasn't him on that table, trying to cling onto life. How would he know?" Ishiguro 226
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"I was pretty much ready when I became a donor. It felt right. After all, it's what we're supposed to be doing, isn't it?" Ishiguro 227
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"Don't you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you'd tried?" Ishiguro 230
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"'How could I have tried?' Ruth's voice was hardly audible. 'It's just something I once dreamt about. That's all.'" Ishiguro 230
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Miss Emily tries to justify the cloning for organs by asking "How can you ask a world that has come to regard cancer ad curable , how can you ask such a world to put away that cure, to go back to the dark days?" Ishiguro 263
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"But do you see what we were up against? We were virtually attempting to square the circle. Here was the world, requiring students to donate. While that remained the case, there would always be a barrier against seeing you as properly human." Ishiguro 263
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Miss Emily tells Kathy and Tommy that she feels that is was bad that Miss Lucy told everyone about their future. She thinks that it would be better to keep the students from knowing as to not worry them. Ishiguro 267
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"You see, we were able to give you something... You wouldn't be who you are today if we'd not protected you." Ishiguro 268
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"When I watched you dancing that day... I saw you and it broke my heart." Ishiguro 272
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"Maybe I did know, somewhere deep down. Something the rest of you didn't." Ishiguro 275
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"I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be." Ishiguro 288
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"The Hailsham children are indoctrinated in - and, one suspects as the narrative progresses, deliberately blinded by - the belief that their personal worth and the meaningfulness of their lives resides entirely in their ability to create art" Rachel Cusk
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Rachel talks about how the adults at Hailsham use the idea of art to blind the children from their future and of themselves. Rachel Cusk
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"We believe that art is immortal, and so we represent creativity as an absolute good; but in making this representation to children, are we interfering with their right to know about and accept death?" Rachel Cusk
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"...the ladies running Hailsham believe that some wider public will feel more humanely towards these 'poor creatures' if they can be shown to make art. It is a nice and nasty irony: as children the clones have all been persuaded of the importance of being 'creative'. Yet it is all a mockery." John Mullan
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"Why are the 'guardians' so firmly against smoking? It is a parody of care. These adolescents' organs must be kept pure because they are to be used by someone else." John Mullan
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Throughout his essay, Ingersoll talks about how the students fail to completely question their situation. They seems to just go along with the path that has been set in front of them. Earl G. Ingersoll
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"When the possibility of survival is denied, the next best hope often lies in avoiding the futile attempt to survive at the cost of one's humanity." Earl G. Ingersoll
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"...the raising of children for the harvesting of organs has not only been conveniently marginalized in spatial terms to various schools, centers, and homes, but also internally normalized by the donors themselves, typified in the figure of Kathy H, who remains passively in the grip of her duty as a carer and donor, embodying the relentlessly bleak tone of the novel." Keith McDonald
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"The children (or captives) are described as 'special' and 'gifted' by their guardians (or wardens), and their murders are described as 'completions,' a jarring reminder of their sole purpose in the eyes of society, and of the ways in which language can normalize atrocities deemed necessary in a given ideology." Kieth McDonald
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McDonald talks about how the different items set out for sale by outsiders and the way adulthood is shoved on to the children makes them unprepared for the real world and that society wants nothing to do with these clones. Kieth McDonald
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"...a world that goes so far as to disenfranchise her from the human mass, where she is reduced to a cog in a bioconsumerist culture." Kieth McDonald
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"Similarly, other than the eventual decline and tragically short romance with her childhood love Tommy, there is little of hope or interest in life after the boundaries of Hailsham and the purgatorial summer camp that follows." Keith McDonald
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In Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, the cruel upbringing of the clones and their treatment from the carers lead them to resign to their fate and never strive to achieve great things.
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