![]() ![]() ![]() The students at Hailsham are taught that creativity is the most important trait they can develop – art, and the artistic products they produce, drive the social world of Hailsham School. ![]() ![]() Ishiguro demonstrates the humanity of the clones through the narrator, Kathy, her friends Tommy and Ruth, and the story of how they grew up at Hailsham School, essentially a humane care center in which the clone children can learn and develop. In Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro explores human nature through the eyes of characters who are not human, but who make us question our humanity all the same. The science is never fully explained, but it is clear that the clones are really no different from the humans they come from, except for their origin and ultimate purpose (determined, of course, by humans). What is it that makes us who we are – that which is inside us, or that which we make? Our perception of ourselves, or how others perceive us? In his novel Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro shows us a bleak alternate future in which humans mercilessly breed clones to provide organs, thereby eliminating concerns over cancer and other such illnesses. ![]()
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