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never let me go
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Themes
Hopes & dreams
Students at Hailsham
- They have dreams of having jobs that people have like becoming actors or working at supermarkets
- Miss Emily tells them that they aren't like normal people and will not be getting jobs like regular people
- The students are clones, brought into the world to donate their organs and will die once they fulfil their destiny
- Reality has robbed the clones from achieving ther dreams
Ruth
- After finding her possible, Ruth dreams of working in an office job just like her
Humanity
Kathy
- Kathy experiences the world just as normal people despite being a clone
- Kathy experiences emotions like love, betrayal, sadness and regret just as any human being would - this is evident in the relationships and interactions Kathy has with the people around her - she feels betrayed when Ruth exposes her to Tommy, she feels sad when she losses the music tape, and she falls in love with Tommy
- The author uses sex and Kathy's intense sexual desires, a primal human instinct, to show the humanity within Kathy, a clone
- The students at Hailsham had to create art which the administrators of Hailsham used to prove that they had souls
- Clones are inherently human
Clones
- Some people do not view the clones as humans
- Madame refers to Kathy and Tommy as 'creatures'
- Some of the clones are reared in deplorable conditions - usage of the word rear is similar to when we describe rearing cows - further emphasizes the fact that clones are viewed as less than human
- Humanity has lost as society views clones as nothing more than a commodity, an advancement in science and technology
- There are activists like Madame and Miss Emily who founded Hailsham, Saunders Trust, and Glenmorgan House to prove that raising clones can be done in an ethical way
Identity of clones
- Replicated from other human beings, the clones desperately search for the origins of their cloning as to provide them with some sense of identity
- Clones often look out for their possibles and tell each other if they have found a possible for a clone
- Ruth is obsessed with the idea of her possible working in an office and dreams of working in a job like that
- Kathy tries to find her possible from pornographic magazines