Never Let Me Go Research Paper

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Most children grow up cultivating dreams of becoming doctors, actresses, police officers; of becoming mothers and fathers; of traveling the world. However, for the students of Hailsham in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel “Never Let Me Go”, aspiration exists as a completely foreign concept. Where most schools teach students the importance of planning for their futures, Hailsham informs its students of their lack of futures. For the students of Hailsham, ambitions and goals hold no significance because society has already predetermined their fate. They will grow up. They will donate their vital organs. They will die. Nothing more and nothing less. Yet despite the apparent injustice of their fate, they reveal no signs of disobedience, rather docilely accepting