Never Let Me Go

Question 1

What is the ending sentence of NLMG ?

Answer 1

I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be

Question 2

What is the opening line of NLMG?

Answer 2

My name is Kathy H. I’m thirty-one years old, I’ve been a carer now for over eleven years

Question 3

Quotes that prove Kathy to be an unreliable narrator

Answer 3

This was all a long time ago so I might have some of it wrong

Question 4

Quotations that suggest conformity within NLMG

Answer 4

We rarely stepped outside the confines of the cottages

There was a fence keeping me from stepping into the field, with two lines of barbed wire

Question 5

Quotation about art and creativity

Answer 5

How much you were liked and respected, had to do with how good you were at “creating”

They revealed your soul

Question 6

Quote that symbolises the clones lack of autonomy

Answer 6

“your lives are set out for you”

Question 7

Kathy as an unreliable narrator 2

Answer 7

“Or maybe I’m remembering it wrong”

Question 8

Memories, loss and relationships (quotation)

Answer 8

“The memories I value most, I don’t see them ever leaving. I lost Ruth, then I lost Tommy, but I won’t lose my memories of them”

Question 9

Quotation about the exchanges and their effect on the students at hailsham

Answer 9

“The exchanges had a more subtle effect on us… being dependant on each other to produce the stuff that might become your private treasures”- Kathy

Question 10

Quotation about Ruth and her split character

Answer 10

“I’d had this notion that there were two quite separate Ruths”- Kathy

Question 11

Quotation about the fragility of the clones friendships

Answer 11

“Everything between the three of us seemed really delicate”- Kathy

Question 12

Tommy/ Kathy relationships, Ruth’s character

Answer 12

“The main thing is, I kept you and Tommy apart”- Ruth

Question 13

Ruth and Kathy relationship (Hailsham)

Answer 13

“the sort of loyalty she inspired in me in those days”- Kathy

Question 14

Uncanny feature of students at hailsham

Answer 14

“we didn’t do things like hug at Hailsham”- Kathy

Question 15

Growing up, realisation and acceptance quotation

Answer 15

“So you’re waiting… for then moment when you realise that you really are different to them.. who shudder at the very thought of you- of how you were brought into this world and why” - Kathy

Question 16

Quotation about emotionless society

Answer 16

“Carers aren’t machines”

Question 17

What shows Tommy’s insecurity in his humanity?

Answer 17

His mechanical drawings of animals

Question 18

What type of person is Kathy?

Answer 18

Passive

Question 19

What type of novel is NLMG?

Answer 19

Buildungsroman

Question 20

What does miss Lucy tell the clones outside the pavilion?

Answer 20

“You’ve been told and not told”