Essays on Never Let Me Go

Throughout the novel, Ishiguro depicts several situations in which Kathy as an individual being still asks herself who she is. Even Though she gives the reader a description of herself right in the beginning of her story “My name is Kathy H. I’m thirty-one years…

In the second half of Never Let Me Go, by Ishiguro Kazo, readers are able to see how Kathy changes as she grows up. For example, she becomes much more determined and sticks to what she says. She explains, “It wasn’t long after I made…

When I was first introduced to this story in the form of a movie back in 2010, I assumed the story only revolved around three friends Kathy, Tommy and Ruth, and the love triangle that takes place between the three of them. I thought the…

The Science and Themes of Never Let Me Go (and Gattaca) Most science fiction films involving human clones take place hundreds of years in the future, where technology is far ahead of what society has now and the world looks completely foreign in comparison to…

In Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Ishiguro comments on the human tendency to choose ignorance through silence in order to maintain bliss. There are multiple forms of willful ignorance portrayed throughout the novel including the personal issues of sex and virginity and the…

The novels Brave New World and Never Let Me Go share the major themes of identity, individuality, and humanity, and both books present to their audience what happens to these ideas – ones that make up the core of our society – when we use…