Never Let Me Go

Isn’t it funny how one object in our lives can seem to define the way we live and think? In Kazua Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Kathy’s cassette acts as an implication of the social condition of the children who grew up at Hailsham. The contents of the cassette describe the kid’s childhood situation and lack of parents. As Ruth grows older, it becomes a symbol of how important her childhood is to her. Eventually, Ishiguro shows how the record seems to be Kathy’s only hope in life due to the dire situation of both her friends and herself. Similar to Kathy’s cassette, my first truck served a similar purpose to myself by becoming an object of pride and memories. In this essay, I will show the connections between the object in the fictional book and the real object in my own life. At its first appearance, the cassette is one of Kathy’s most prized possessions. Her classmates and her boarding-school like institution is completely detached from the outside world and the students have nearly no idea about the real world. ‘Sells’ that are held each year however, allow the children to get glimpses of what lies outside

She states “Even so, it 's one of my most precious possessions” (64), although at that point in the story it is not known why she values the cassette so much. The suggestion that Tommy had given her the tape, since she lost the one she acquired at the sales as a young girl, allows the reader to draw some interpretations about the relationship her and Tommy share later in life. As Kathy grows, it seems that she becomes more aware of the true meaning of the words in “Never Let Me Go”. She becomes very interested in the relationships between men and women. Her curiosity concerning sex leads to her experimentation with several men. Tommy and Kathy seem to be only very close friends but the tape and their actions suggest