Never Let Me Go By Kaguro

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In the Novel, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro the children don’t seem to care at all that all they are going to be in life are organ donors. They will not live to old age or get married or have children, but they don’t seem phased by it at all. They make jokes about it even. Even if somebody does start to wonder about it, or is curious, they don’t ask about it because it would draw negative attention to them from the other students at Hailsham to the point where they would be punished. They have basically accepted the fact that their individuality or souls are not as important as other humans’. They spend their whole lives contributing to the system that will ultimately end their lives. They are this way because they were raised in an environment …show more content…

When Miss Lucy decided that she needed to explain to them how terrible their lives would really be, it got their attention, but not in the way that she had hoped. “Word got around fast enough, but the talk mostly focused on Miss Lucy herself rather than on what she had been trying to tell us.” (82). The students were more shocked by Miss Lucy’s behavior than what she was actually trying to tell them. They didn’t care that none of them would grow up and have their dream job or a family. She acted differently than what they grew up with and it completely distracted them from the …show more content…

All they knew about how people acted is by what the guardians told them. While growing up, the students had never witnessed how a normal human would react to the fate that the students had. Donations were a normal thing for them and they didn’t know any differently. The sole purpose of the students not being allowed to leave was so they could be molded into the brainwashed clones that they were. Another reason that they weren’t allowed to leave is that the people in charge of the operation didn’t want to give them any ideas about having a future. If a child saw people in the outside world, then they might get the idea that that’s what their future would look like. They didn’t want the children to have a dream job or the dream of having a family. The future of living in the outside world would sound way better in a child mind then growing up to be a