never let me go

Question 1

Kathy commenting on how people should stop picking on Tommy. Relates to how someone should have intervened and stopped the cloning.

Answer 1

“I thought sooner or later someone would start saying it had gone too far, but it just kept on, and no one said anything.”

Question 2

euphemistic language suggesting that humans had lied themselves into a false sense of ignorance

Answer 2

“donors” “guardians” “carers”

Question 3

donor is ironic because it implies it is voluntary

Answer 3

“donors”

Question 4

reflecting on her time in the cottages and how she and Tommy couldn’t be together
Also foreshadows how the their death will pull them apart in the end

Answer 4

“there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then”

Question 5

Ishiguru exploring the idea of whether it is worthwhile to lead a decent life when one is going to die anyway.

Answer 5

“If we’re just going to give donations anyway, then die, why all those lessons?”

Question 6

Tommy screaming in a field at nothing - represents there voicelessness and no matter how hard they try society will not listen

Answer 6

‘screaming, raging”

Question 7

Mrs Lucy telling them that their lives are planned
Lack of freedom
Nihilistic message of Ishiguru that their lack of freedom and aspirations makes their life pointless

Answer 7

“your lives are set out for you”

Question 8

Cathy talking about how her career will end. Says she will embrace the chance to rest

• euphemistic language to die
• lulling herself into a false sense of acceptance over her death
• passivity

Answer 8

“I’ll welcome the chance to rest—to stop and think and remember.”