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As genetic technology blossomed in the recent years, ethnic issues like whether clones are fully human and deserve human rights are more and more heatedly debated. In Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro uses the tender and relatable first-person narration of Kathy to illustrate to the genuine and touching human emotions the cloned students of Hailsham are capable of and call his audience to respect clones as equals and to fight for their rights and future. First of all, through the delicate and complicated relationship between guardians and students at Hailsham, Ishiguro show that Hailsham students have the need and capability for human connections and love. Like all developing children, Hailsham students longed for connections with and special

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She chooses specific moments of her life and narrates it with her own justification, which makes the novel frustrating to read. Though Kathy tries to hide this through her narrative, the reader still understands how unjust the program of clones really is. The existence of human duplicates serves the sole purpose of carrying organs. It is hard to relate to Kathy’s acceptance of her existence, since the story is based on injustice. The novel is constructed in a way that Kathy has the ability to manipulate her

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Likewise, Ishiguro explores how love and relationships also encourage a rejection of repression in Never Let Me Go. Kathy and Tommy are both aware that their true love could facilitate a deferral, thereby allowing them to forgo a donation and escape their repression. When the two of them visit Madame with the intention to obtain a deferral, Kathy affirms, “Tommy and me, we never would have come and bothered you if we weren’t really sure.” The conviction and passion in this on the part of Kathy is evident, it is expressed in such an emphatic and vehement manner that the love she feels for Tommy is blatantly evident within it. The use of the adverb ‘really’ only further suggests the passion and genuine emotion felt by Kathy and reciprocated

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In addition, Ishiguro utilizes the clones as a reflection to human morality. All humans face adversities in life that are inexorable, death being one certain source of trauma. When Tommy, Kathy’s boyfriend, must donate his vital organs and face death, he compares life to a “river” where “the current is too strong” and they will inevitably “drift apart” (Ishiguro 282). By comparing life to a fast-moving river, Tommy realizes that tragedies like death is unavoidable. Therefore, Tommy and Kathy cherish the time they have left together rather than anguishing.

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