Never Let Me Go Flashcards
What is the ending sentence of NLMG ?
I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be
What is the opening line of NLMG?
My name is Kathy H. I’m thirty-one years old, I’ve been a carer now for over eleven years
Quotes that prove Kathy to be an unreliable narrator
This was all a long time ago so I might have some of it wrong
Quotations that suggest conformity within NLMG
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
Quotation about art and creativity
How much you were liked and respected, had to do with how good you were at “creating”
They revealed your soul
Quote that symbolises the clones lack of autonomy
“your lives are set out for you”
Kathy as an unreliable narrator 2
“Or maybe I’m remembering it wrong”
Memories, loss and relationships (quotation)
“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”
Quotation about the exchanges and their effect on the students at hailsham
“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
Quotation about Ruth and her split character
“I’d had this notion that there were two quite separate Ruths”- Kathy
Quotation about the fragility of the clones friendships
“Everything between the three of us seemed really delicate”- Kathy
Tommy/ Kathy relationships, Ruth’s character
“The main thing is, I kept you and Tommy apart”- Ruth
Ruth and Kathy relationship (Hailsham)
“the sort of loyalty she inspired in me in those days”- Kathy
Uncanny feature of students at hailsham
“we didn’t do things like hug at Hailsham”- Kathy
Growing up, realisation and acceptance quotation
“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