Never let me go

Question 1

Where and when was never let me go set

Answer 1

1990s Norfolk in England just after the war

Norfolk was the place where medical advances occurred

Question 2

Give examples of where loss is seen in the novel

Answer 2

Loss of comfort and protection of hailsham when they move to the cottages
Whole life resembles loss of freedom
Loss of hope and opportunity
When Kathy loses Judy bridge water tape
When tommy finds the tape he gives freedom to Kathy because she goes on to become a carer whereas he doesn’t.

Question 3

Give examples of when fear is Seen in the novel

Answer 3

Madames fear of the hail sham students
Ruth’s pretending eg imaginary horses at the start of the book and the leaflets for an office job. She pretends to hide the real meaning of her life and what her purpose is.
Speaking out about theories and ideas to the guardians
The forest- outside of hailsham

Question 4

Give examples of when friendship is seen in the novel

Answer 4

They have nothing but friend ship
Kathy cares the most- she cares for tommy and wants the hailsham lot to stick together
Ruth at the end of the novel says how tommy and Kathy should get a deferral and apologises for keeping them apart- we see an insecure Ruth towards the end, this could show she’s reflecting and becoming weaker as she approaches completion

Question 5

Give examples of euphemisms in the novel

Answer 5

“Completions” instead of dying

Question 6

Give the quotation that symbolises the boat

Answer 6

Stranded in the marshes

Question 7

Give the quotationS that refers to how Madame views the hailsham students

Answer 7

Poor creatures

She was afraid of us in the same way someone was scared of spiders

Question 8

Give a quotation that states the song lyrics of never let me go

Answer 8

Love me tender love me sweet never let me go

Question 9

Give a quotation that presents miss emily in the theme of secrecy

Answer 9

Wandering round hailsham in a dream

This portrays secrecy and that miss emily is constantly thinking about things and the effect hailsham has on her

Question 10

Give a quotation that portrays Ruth’s imagination and disbelief of her fate

Answer 10

She always wanted to believe in things

Question 11

Give a quotation that contrasts Ruth from Kathy and how Kathy shows her kindness through this

Answer 11

I accepted the invisible rain that she was holding out of me

Question 12

Give quotation that talks about the forest around hailsham

Answer 12

A dark fringe of trees

Question 13

How could you describe never let me go

Answer 13

An analogy of life

Question 14

What could be a a symbol for animalistic views on doners from a clone

Answer 14

Tommys animal drawing show animals

Animals can be caged and their death is controlled by humans and they are here for us

Question 15

She has a bedsit but we never see her in it, what could this symbolise

Answer 15

We always see her travelling and that her life is a journey that is set up for her, following her path of life

Question 16

Why is friendship a prominent theme in never let me go

Answer 16

Without it they’d have nothing, they’d be completely isolated

Question 17

Why are there hardly any male guardians

Answer 17

Women have maternal instincts to look after the children, hailsham tries their best to do this

Question 18

How does kazuo ishiguro use fear to guide the plot

Answer 18

The fear the children are given and have guide them and make them stay on the certain path they have to take. The fear controls them.

Question 19

How does kazuo Ishiguro represent the theme of fear from an outsiders perspective
Give quotation.

Answer 19

There would always be a barrier against the world seeing you as properly human

Question 20

Give a quotation that shows Kathy to be an unreliable narrator

Answer 20

I don’t know how it was where you were, but at hailsham we had some sort of medical almost every week

Question 21

How does Ishiguro present fear through setting

Answer 21

The dark fringe of trees
(Forest and fences surrounding hailsham)
The fences separate clones from the humans

Question 22

Give a quotation that represents fear of not accepting

And this quotation is one of the first times as a read we feel that the characters are being honest with us

Answer 22

We all know it. We’re modelled from trash. Jinkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps.

SAID BY RUTH

Question 23

In the quotation - We all know it. We’re modelled from trash. Jinkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps.
What device is used and how does it have an impact

Answer 23

Asyndeton
It is very to the point, avoiding the truth for so long and finally Ruth says it.
Spoken very venomously and ruthlessly which is ironic as Ruth spoke it

Question 24

Give a quotation that portrays the fear of the future and theme of secrets

Answer 24

If you knew for sure you’d complete, it would be easier. But they never tell us for sure

Question 25

What is asyndeton

Answer 25

No punctuation or conjunctions between parts of a sentence e.g. Lists without commas