Never Let Me Go Essay

Never Let Me Go follows the life of a young woman named Kathy H, who starts off talking in first person explaining that she is a 31 year old, living in England in the late 1900. We do not quite understand what she is talking about, as she announces that she is a ‘carer’, and we are unclear to what that is. Therefore, she speaks to us, the audience, and tells the story of her childhood. She recounts the story of her life. Kathy is a clone created to start giving vital organs to people considered more important when she is around her thirties, and by doing this they die very young. She tells us the story of how she went through this and the love story with another clone, Tommy, and her friend Ruth. Of course, the novel raises the question of

When Kathy, in Never Let Me Go, is in her teens, she has the natural urge to have sex, but Ruth tells her that she is disgusting in a way and she is having these urges because she is just as impure as her probable original. This way we can start to explore teenagers, and the way that they are grown up. Finding oneself, and understanding who you are and what to do. This chance is not given to the clones, and they are not even taught how to interact with people in the outside world. WE see this in the other novel too, as we can see the maturity of a child, Ana, even if she is merely 13, grow immensely. Ana knows that she has to make a decision, whether to save herself or to save her sister Kate. she wants to be able to decide alone as to what should be done with her body, rather than her parents choosing. This is also an actual world issue, and the ESHRE have raised many questions to this matter and also one that states that the parents must show the same amount of love and respect for the ‘savior sibling’. In just 2001, the council around the former President Bush was extremely worried about this. Another common fear is that parents and society would harbor undue expectations about their cloned children that would cause them to suffer psychological and emotional