-
Never Let Me Go
Both Frankenstein and Never Let Me Go are told from the perspective of their protagonists years after the meat of the story has already taken place. In Frankenstein’s case, the novel is set up...
-
Never Let Me Go
A Motif is a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition, and Never Let Me Go is rife with them. AnimalsThe book is full of animal imagery -- the kids at Hailsham...
-
Never Let Me Go
On the surface, The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro are nothing alike. Zola's novel is about the rise of the department store in Paris in the 1890s, while...
-
Never Let Me Go
In The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola, there are two hugely key characters to know about. The first is Denise Baudu, a young woman who travels to Paris and starts working in a department store. She...
-
Never Let Me Go
The two main female characters in Never Let Me Go, Ruth and Kathy, can offer some insights into the ways women are portrayed in the novel. In terms of presenting opportunities for dramatic conflict...
-
Never Let Me Go
There's a good deal of animal imagery in Never Let Me Go. One has only to think of Tommy's elephant drawing or his drawings of imaginary animals at the Cottages. Then there's Kathy's comparison of...
-
Never Let Me Go
Certainly the ethics of human cloning should be represented. There is currently not a global ban on human cloning, and less than a fourth of all nations have policies in place which make this...
-
Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go explores prominent ideas in postmodern literature and philosophy by examining ambiguous questions of existence and how those with power in society depend upon the complacency of...
-
Never Let Me Go
At first, Hailsham seems like an idyllic environment in which to grow up and get an education. Later, though, as the truth is revealed, the characters realize they were always living a lie....
-
Never Let Me Go
There are many similarities between these two novels, so an argumentative essay could be based on one of several common themes. One central issue that both Mary Shelley and Kazuo Ishiguro take on...
-
Never Let Me Go
I would argue that one of the chief dystopian elements, common to many dystopian classics, is the question of identity and what it is to be human. The clones show themselves to be identical to...
-
Never Let Me Go
The novels by Mary Shelley and Kazuo Ishiguro are set in two different eras. Shelley's Frankenstein is strongly associated with early 19th-century Romanticism. The exact time period of Never Let Me...
-
Never Let Me Go
If we were to compare symbols and motifs between Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, there would be quite a few intriguing overlaps! Both novels share the motif of...
-
Never Let Me Go
This is a very interesting question. Both novels deal with a central idea that humanity is a somewhat fluid concept, that can be redefined and recontextualized based upon a number of different...
-
Never Let Me Go
For one, consider that the faculty and staff at Hailsham are asking the same question you are: What should the children know? What's ethical for them to know? What's right? You might look...
-
Never Let Me Go
Sentiments, or feelings and opinions, vary widely based on personal experience. The film Never Let Me Go is based on the novel of the same name by Kazuo Ishiguro. Sentiments felt when watching a...
-
Never Let Me Go
One similarity between The Stranger by Albert Camus and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro is that both books explore morality in relation to human lives. In the first chapter of The Stranger, the...
-
Never Let Me Go
The main similarity that can be drawn between these two works of fiction is that they both have the central theme of alienation. Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy in Never Let Me Go and Meursault in The...
-
Never Let Me Go
The theme of intolerance permeates Kazuo Ishiguro's novel. In the sharply divided society that the author depicts, people who were conceived and born in traditional or natural ways are fully...
-
Never Let Me Go
In Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go, two significant scenes in parts 1 and 3 involve interactions between the major characters Tommy and Kathy and the minor characters Miss Lucy and Madame....
-
Never Let Me Go
A Homework Help answer can't contain answers to all possible questions, but I'll try and get you on track. If you're in a rush to re-familiarize yourself with the plot and characters, the 2010 film...
-
Never Let Me Go
The idea of having a future apart from donation, possible service as a carer, and then completion is not encouraged by the Hailsham teachers and administrators. The children grow up with little...
-
Never Let Me Go
The children who grow up living at Hailsham are clones from originals living elsewhere. Public opinion is divided about the value of education for clones because they will eventually die after...
-
Never Let Me Go
A key theme of this excellent text is the way in which the clones are treated at Hailsham and by society in general, and in particular how they are not told the truth initially, and then only fed...
-
Never Let Me Go
This is an excellent question. Clearly, this incredible novel raises huge ethical questions, not least the whole idea of creating children to be used as organ donors for "proper" humans and how...
-
Never Let Me Go
This is a great question! The truth is that we are never given any indication at all of why the donors do not wish to escape or flee from their fate. We are never told of any of them that try to do...
-
Never Let Me Go
Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go is a futuristic work that explores the ethics of cloning. In a society that is so developed that it can create human clones to extend the lives of its citizen:...
-
Never Let Me Go
The notion of loss is shown to be one that is intrinsic to the reality of the clones. Kathy and Tommy, in particular, are shown to accept the condition of loss as a part of their being. Loss is...
-
Never Let Me Go
One of the most defining characteristics about Kathy as a charater and how she develops from childhood to adulthood is the way in which she becomes more and more accepting of her lot in life and...
-
Never Let Me Go
This excellent novel opens in Hailsham, a school where three friends, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy are introduced to us. Their lives at school are explored, with many curious aspects to them that we do...
-
Never Let Me Go
The entire premise of Ishiguro's narrator's life (and the lives of her friends and classmates) is based on lies and deceit. Kathy, the narrator, is part of a group of young people who are basically...
-
Never Let Me Go
This event occurs in Chapter Four, as Ruth is first introduced to us at Hailsham when she and Kathy first begin to play together. Kathy remembers an event when she is playing in a sandbox with...
-
Never Let Me Go
The reason behind putting so much emphasis on creativity is revealed later on in a discussion between Miss Emily, Marie-Claude, Tommy, and Kathy at around page 239. During this discussion, Miss...
-
Never Let Me Go
This is a big question, one that drives a lot of the novel's tension. First of all, if you haven't already done so, you should definitely read Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go because it is a beautiful,...
-
Never Let Me Go
In Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go, Miss Lucy is a teacher at Habersham who encourages her students to create works of art. Spoiler alert in next sentence. She does not push Tommy at first...
-
Never Let Me Go
We are never actually given conclusive reasons for this behaviour on the part of Madam and Miss Emily. What we can establish from this text, in which so much remains mysterious or undefined for so...
-
Never Let Me Go
I think there are a number of different strategies that Ishiguro uses in this wonderful book. Firstly, we can see that the central strategy he uses is raising our curiosity about these seemingly...
-
Never Let Me Go
This is one of the most tragic points in the novel, in my opinion. Let us not forget the context of this trip to revisit Madame. They believe that Madame and their former headmistress is able to...
-
Never Let Me Go
The discussion of the Morningdale Scandal and the entire premise of Hailsham helps to bring out the basic idea of social indifference. The first is how mainstream society is quite effective at...
-
Never Let Me Go
I think that a theme that is present in a couple of Ishiguro's works that is also seen in Never Let Me Go is the manipulation of individuals by a larger element. This manipulation is done to...
-
Never Let Me Go
The massive restriction that the central characters face as clones is that they are not free to live their lives as they would like and that they do not have ultimate control over their futures....
-
Never Let Me Go
I think that one way in which the students' conformity is fundamentally different is rooted in a fear of unknown. To an extent, perhaps Ishiguro is making a statement about all conformity rooting...
-
Never Let Me Go
In the most literal of senses, I don't sense that there is much of a choice. Ishiguro establishes the donor condition in the novel as one in which accepting one's fate is to face destruction in...
-
Never Let Me Go
Until the students learn the ultimate truth, i.e. that they truly have no future and that there are no "deferrals" for those who claim to be in love, there is a glimmer of hope that they might be...
-
Never Let Me Go
The setting of the novel occurs in the recent past, and moves through to an assumed present. The notion of cloning is "futuristic" but by setting the novel in the 1970s at the beginning, there is...
-
Never Let Me Go
One way that Ishiguro is able to use Tommy to explore ideas of love and loss is in how Tommy strives to find hope in both. Ishiguro constructs Tommy as highly optimistic. He strives for the...
-
Never Let Me Go
Ruth, as her name suggests, has a ruthless quality that drives her to behave in self-centered ways. Her understanding of her fate is driven by strong feelings of self-preservation, and she is...
-
Never Let Me Go
Miss Lucy is teaching a poetry lesson to her English class and the topic of conversation falls on soldiers held in World War 2 prison camps. "One of the boys asked if the fences around the camps...
-
Never Let Me Go
Atwood applies an interesting metaphor to her understanding of this novel. The reader does indeed look "through a glass darkly" to see a version of humanity that is disturbing, but the word glass...
-
Never Let Me Go
The golden cage image (or what is also commonly called a "gilded cage") is one that suggests one lives in luxury but without freedom. Hailsham appears to be a very high quality boarding school in...