Never Let Me Go- Language Structure Context

Question 1

What symbols are there?

Answer 1

The Judy Bridgewater Tape
Stranded Boat
The gene
The woods
Norfolk
The clown

Question 2

What is an example of the use of momento more?

Answer 2

Miss Emily’s skeleton

Question 3

What does the use of pathetic fallacy create?

Answer 3

tension, mood and atmosphere

Question 4

What are examples of euphemistic language used?

Answer 4

” completions “ and “recovery centres”

Question 5

What are examples of the recurring motif of water?

Answer 5

The pond at Hailsham

Seaside locations

Question 6

What type of imagery is used?

Answer 6

Anamalistic

Question 7

What are the three parts of the Novel?

Answer 7

Hailsham
The cottages
Recovery centre

Question 8

What kind of a narrator is Kathy?

Answer 8

Unreliable and Tangential

Question 9

What is used to shift the timescales of the novel?

Answer 9

Analepsis and proplepsis

Question 10

What type of structure is the novel?

Answer 10

Cyclical

Question 11

What type of novel is it?

Answer 11

A Dystopian or bildungsroman

Question 12

What is the context of the novel?

Answer 12

• medical breakthroughs in organ donation and cloning
• Medical and scientific ethics/morality
• ideas about humanity and the nature of the soul
• concept of eugenics - Nazis

Question 13

How is the novel written?

Answer 13

retrospectively