NLMG

Question 1

‘disappeared into the _____’ Pg268 - NLMG

Answer 1

blackness

Question 2

ANALYSIS - ‘disappeared into the blackness’ and ‘slipped and fell out of view into blackness’ (Pg268 NLMG)

Answer 2

Tommy is almost consumed by nature due to his unnatural status

Question 3

ANALYSIS: ‘raging, shouting, flinging his fists and kicking out’ (Pg269 NLMG)

Answer 3

syndetic listing of uncontrollable, deep emotions by Tommy - loss of hope from his brutal but inevitable fate

Question 4

ANALYSIS: ‘wind kept blowing…tugging our clothes’ (Pg269 NLMG)

Answer 4

nature personified to present its retaliation in trying to restore balance from the unnatural creations - trying to pull them apart

Question 5

ANALYSIS: ‘All along the fence, especially along the lower line of the wire, all sorts of rubbish had caught and tangled’ (Pg282 NLMG)

Answer 5

continued symbolism of restriction, clones reflected as the waste products of society, emphasised by ending up in the ‘Lost corner of England’ (Norfolk)

Question 6

ANALYSIS + A03: ‘debris you get on a sea shore’ ‘this was Norfolk after all’

Answer 6

Clones in the same position of ‘limbo’ between restriction and freedom by the end, Ishiguro opposed the dytopian convention of ‘plight of the brave slave’