never let me go themes and quotes

Question 1

Isolation in Never Let Me Go

Answer 1

Kathy’s retrospective loneliness after Tommy and Ruth’s deaths

“Waitin for the moment when you realise you really are different from them” – Kathy

“Even the solitude, I’ve grown to quite like…”

“The big grey sky and my daydreams for company”

Clones hidden in Hailsham / recovery centres

Question 2

Creation in Never Let Me Go

Answer 2

“So for a long time you were kept in the shadows…”

“Poor creatures. What did we do to you?”

“Your lives have been set out for you…”

“Completing” instead of dying – language of dehumanisation

Clones = functional, purpose-driven beings

Question 2

Injustice/Inequality in Never Let Me Go

Answer 2

“People dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs”

“Told and not told” – deception

“Afraid of us like spiders” – Madame

“Did someone think we didn’t have souls?” – Tommy

Question 3

Responsibility in Never Let Me Go

Answer 3

How can you ask such a world to put away that cure?” – Miss Emily

“Poor creatures. What did we do to you?”

Miss Lucy: “Your lives are set out for you… you have to know who you are”