Never Let Me Go Quotes Flashcards
how is Kathy referred to in the novel?
‘Kathy H’
give a quote showing Kathy as a relatable protagonist:
‘okay, maybe I am boasting now’ (3)
give an example of euphemistic language
‘donations’ ‘donors’ ‘carers’ ‘recovery centres’
give quotes showing an allusion to the dystopian ‘they’ early in the novel
‘but actually they want me to go on for another 8 months’ (3), ‘they’ve been pleased with my work’ (3), ‘they’ve let me choose’ (4)
give quotes suggesting kathy is relating the story to another clone
‘That sounds long enough, I know,’ (3) ‘If you’re one of them I understand how you might get resentful,’ (3) ‘I’m sure you’ve heard it plenty more’ (4)
give an example of verisimilitude
‘he mentioned some place in Dorset’ (5) and ‘that recovery centre in Dover’ (4)
give a quote foreshadowing the poor treatment of the other clones early in the novel
-‘and his face beneath the blotches went into a completely new kind of grimace’ (5)
give a quote suggesting hailsham is secluded
- ‘I might pass the corner of a misty field, or see part of a large house in the distance’ (6)
give a quote showing verisimiluted with hailsham
‘those pavilions […] little white prefab buildings with a row of windows unnaturally high’ (6) […] ‘I think they built a whole lot like that in the 50s and 60s’ (6)
give a quote from tommy’s first tantrum
- ‘flinging his limbs about, at the sky, at the wind, at the nearest fence post’ (10)
- ‘like a dog doing a pee’ (10) & ‘mad animal’ (12)
- It was like he was doing Shakespeare’ (11)
give a quote dehumanising Tommy in his first tantrum
‘like a dog doing a pee’ (10) & ‘mad animal’ (12)
give a quote showing kathy as conforming and tommy as not
‘Tommy, who was in a stream coming down, had stopped dead on the stars with a big open smile that immediately irritated me’ (13)
give a quote showing tommy’s skills
‘good runner [who] would quickly open up ten, fifteen yards between him and the rest’ (15)
give a quote showing clones lose hope at ruth’s recovery centre
‘watching the sun go down over the rooftops […] lots of aerials and satellite dishes […] a glistening line that was the sea’
give a quote that reflects the dystopian genre at ruth’s recovery centre
‘gleaming white tiles […] almost like entering a hall of mirrors […] pale shadowy movement all around you’
give a quote showing society’s neglect for the clones at ruth’s recovery centre
‘the recovery rooms are small, but they’re well-designed and comfortable’
‘she could get all the fresh air she wanted by stepping out onto the balcony’
give a quote describing norfolk at the end of the novel
- ‘flat fields of nothing […] huge grey skies’
- ‘all sorts of rubbish’
- ‘torn plastic sheeting’
- ‘shore-line of odd stuff caught along the fencing’
- ‘where everything I’d ever lost since my childhood had washed up’
give a quote showing the value of norfolk to the clones
‘real source of comfort’ f
give a quote showing what kathy thought of when she played the tape
‘what I’d imagine was a woman who’d been told she couldn’t have babies, who really, really wanted them all her life’
give a quote showing kathy’s passivity in playing the tape
‘I hadn’t meant to play the tape’, ‘an impulse made me get the case’
give a quote showing madame’s reaction to kathy and the tape
- ‘she was crying […] sobbing and sobbing, staring at me’
- ‘like she was seeing somethings that gave her the creeps’
give a quote showing pathetic fallacy in Miss Lucy’s speech
‘the downpour had started while we were changing […] but the rain kept going […] peering into the rain like she was trying to see right across the playing field’ (78)
give a quote describing miss lucy giving her speech
‘like a crouching animal waiting to pounce’ (78)
give a quote from miss lucy’s speech, showing the clones’ fates
- ‘none of you […] none of you […] none of you […] you’re not […] you’re not’ (80)
- ‘Your lives are set out for you’
how does part one of NLMG end?
Part 1 ends with: ‘Miss Lucy had left Hailsham and wouldn’t be returning’
give a quote showing the cottages were unfit for purpose and unwelcoming
- ‘there really wasn’t much else we could do other than report leaking gutters and mop up after floods’, ‘we had to make do with big boxy heaters […] we sometimes kept our wellingtons on […] the floors being in the state they were’
- ‘virtually falling down, which he couldn’t use for much’
give a quote showing the dehumanisation of the clones at the cottages
‘the remains of a farm that had gone out of business’ with ‘barns, outhouses, and stables’ (114)
give a quote connecting the cottages to hailsham
‘we could see hills in the distance that reminded us of the ones at Hailsham, but they seemed to us oddly crooked’ (116)
give a quote showing keffers’ characterisation
- ‘he was this grumpy old guy […] he didn’t like to talk much [..] went round sighing and shaking his head disgustedly’
- ‘he’d shake his head gloomily, like we were bound to use them up’
- ‘Keffers would again shake his head [..] make no reply’
- ‘you went up to greet him and he’d stare at you like you were mad’
give a quote describing the office in norfolk
- ‘There was a big glass front at street-level, so anyone going by could see right into it’
- ‘We kept on staring, and it looked like a smart, cosy, self-contained world’
give a quote decribing how the clones viewed possibles
‘The idea of ‘possibles’ […] intrigued […] disturbed us […] wasn’t a topic you could bring up casually […] awkwardness […] solemn’
give a quote showing what the clones thought the possibles gave them
- ‘one big idea about finding your possible was that when you did, you’d glimpse your future’
- ‘when you saw the person you were copied from, you’d get some insight into who you were deep down’
give a quote describing the coast at norfolk
- ‘near a cliff edge’
- ‘you could see the paths zigzagging down to the seafront, except this time you could see the promenade at the bottom with rows of boarded up stalls’
- ‘letting the wind hit us’
- ‘something in the sea, way off on the horizon’
give a quote from ruth’s outburst about where the clones come from
- ‘We’re modelled from trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps. Convicts, maybe’
- ‘you look in the gutter. You look in rubbish bins. Look down the toilet’
give a quote from ruth’s outburst showing the othering of the clones
- ‘Do you think she’d have talked to us if she’d known what we really were?’
give a quote describing the landscape that the boat is beached in
- ‘the thin woods we’d come through had ended, and now in front of us there was open marshland as far as we could see’
- ‘ghostly dead trunks’
give a quote describing the boat
‘the boat, sitting beached in the marshes under the weak sun’
‘I could see now how its paint was cracking, and how the timber frames of the little cabin were crumbling away. It had once painted a sky blue, but now looked almost white’
give a quote describing tommy and ruth visiting the boat
- ‘Okay, this is as far as we can go. The other two, who were behind me, raised no objection’
- ‘Tommy and Ruth made their way to another tree trunk, hollow and more emaciated than mine’
give a quote from ruth after visiting the boat, to kathy
'’I don’t really expect you to forgive me ever […] you’ve at least got to try’’
give a quote describing madame’s reaction when she meets kathy and tommy
- ‘It was only a polite ‘Excuse me!’ but she spun round like I’d thrown something at her’
- ‘you could see her stiffen - as if a pair of large spiders was set to crawl towards her’
- ‘It didn’t become warmer exactly. But that revulsion got out away somewhere, and she studied us carefully, squinting in the setting sun’
give a quote describing kathy;’s response when she meets madame as an adult
‘a chill passed through me, much like the one I’d felt years ago that time we’d waylaid her’
give a quote showing light imagery at madame’s house
‘everything got dark’ (243), ‘we were in a hallway so narrow’ (243), ‘leading deeper into the house’ (244), ‘pointing into the darkness of the passage’ (244)
give a quote describing madame’s hosue
- ‘coloured glass panels’
- ‘the hallway, narrow as it was, divided further’
- ‘crooked shade covered with cobwebs’
- ‘you could hardly make it out at all […] murky glass’
- ‘only silence in the house’
- ‘the fireplace had been sealed off with a board’
- ‘tapestry of strange owl-like birds staring out at you’
give a quote describing miss emily when she is old
Miss Emily ‘[hopes] this contraption [wheelchair] isn’t a permanent fixture’
give a quote describing miss emily’s bedside cabinet
Miss Emily has a ‘quite wonderful’ (252) bedside cabinet that she ‘put[s] protective passing around’ (252) and will ‘accompany’ (252) herself
give a quote describing deferrals, from miss emily’s speech
The rumour of deferrals gets ‘created from scratch over and over’ (252)
give a quote from miss emily explaining why art was important at hailsham
‘We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.”
give a quote from miss emily’s speech suggesting that science brings new opportunities to benefit society
‘Suddenly, there were all these new possibilities laid before us’ […]’This was that the world noticed the most, wanted the most.’
give a quote from miss emily’s speech suggesting that Society avoids direct acknowledgment of their transgressions
‘people preferred to believe that these organs appeared from nowhere’
give a quote from miss emily’s speech showng the treatment of the clones by society
‘But by the time people became concerned about…about students, by the time they came to consider just how you were reared, whether you should have been brought into existence at all, well by then it was too late.’ […] ‘how can you ask such a world to put away that cure, to go back to the dark days?’ […] ‘However uncomfortable people were about your existence, their overwhelming concern was that their own children, their spouses, their parents, their friends’
give a quote from miss emily’s speech showing the impact of the morningdale scandal
‘But then came the Morningdale scandal […] we were all of us swept away’ - ‘they wanted you in the shadows’
give a quote showing light imagery at tommy’s final tantrum
- ‘the spot was completely unlit’
- ‘Tommy got out and disappeared into the blackness’
- ‘the moon wasn’t quite full, but it was bright enough
- ‘when he kicked out, he slipped and fell out of view into blackness’
give a quote from tommy’s final tantrum
- ‘Tommy’s figure [was] raging, shouting, flinging his fists and kicking out’
- ‘we stood together like that […] not saying anything, just holding each other, while the wind kept blowing and blowing at us.’
- ‘I tried to run, but the mud sucked my feet down. The mud was impeding him too’
give a quote showing tommy distancing himself from kathy
‘But Tommy, though he’d seen me, went on listening to his friend’ (272)
give a quote suggesting that tommy lost all hope for happiness at the end of his life
- ‘How there’s nothing to do except watch your remaining donations until they switch you off.’ (274)
- ‘But is it really that important? Okay, it’s really nice to have a good carer. But in the end, is it really so important?’ (276)
give a quote suggesting Tommy desired some dignity at the end of his life
‘Ruth would have understood. She was a donor, so she would have understood.’ (276)
give a quote suggesting Tommy wanted to protect Kathy from seeing her own future
‘I think I ought to get a different carer…When I had all that kidney trouble. There’s going to be much more stuff like that coming.’ (275)
give a quote suggesting that Tommy didn’t want to taint Kathy’s memories of him
- ‘Look, Kath, I’ll sort out my own things. If you were a donor, you’d see.’ (273)
- ‘I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much.’ (277)
give a quote describing the setting as tommy and kathy say goodbye
- ‘the sun was already setting behind the buildings’
- ‘there were a few shadowy figures, as usual’
give a quote from tommy as he says goodbye to kathy
‘I always imagined I was splashing through water […] splash, splash, splash.’
give a quote from kathy about hailsham, at the end
‘I’ve never tried to find [Hailsham]. I’m not really interested in seeing it, whatever way it is now.’ (280)
give a quote describing the setting at the end of NLMG
- ‘Fence keeping [Kathy] from stepping into the field of ploughed earth.’ (281)
- ‘All along the fence, especially along the lower line of wire, all sorts of rubbish had caught and tangled.’ (282)
give a quote showing kathy’s final response, after tommy has completed
‘I waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.’ (282)
