NLMG Beginning Analysis Flashcards
1
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England, Late 1990s
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- Are we just like the clones? Or the guardians?
2
Q
My name is Kathy H
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- no surname?
- disturbing opening
- no identity
3
Q
“I’ve been a carer now for over eleven years”
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- what is it in her that has made her a carer for so long? Is it that she never rebels?
4
Q
“Really good carers who’ve been told to stop after just two or three years”
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- euphemism as when you stop being a carer, you become a donor and die. Perhaps these rebelled?
- independence > murdered?
5
Q
Kathy’s role as a carer:
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- ruthless.
- Prolongs life of people as you don’t want too many organs at once as not enough people to transplant the organs into
- organs must be produced on demand.
- good at her role at keeping organs in market
- stopped rebellion (from “agitated” to “calm”)
- do we just follow social conformity
6
Q
“Privileged Estates”
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- ironic
- estate > large
- she only has a “bedsit” and a “car”
- condemn society that gives clones so little
- what about those who aren’t privileged?
7
Q
“The way I get to pick and choose who I look after”
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- privilege from Hailsham
- reminds us of WW2 extermination - inmates know what will happen to victims > prolonged their own life.
- Kathy does this as a carer
8
Q
“And I’m a Hailsham student”
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- Hail refers to status
- Hailsham is a sham breeding them for industrial slaughter.
- Kathy is also a sham as a carer - she is making it easier for society to use clones in this way.
9
Q
“No wonder she has a great record”
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- Desperate for approval of society
10
Q
“Only for the last six they’ve let me choose”
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- Like Kathy’s victims
- Keeps them alive longer?
- Picking those at Hailsham and killing them
- Depicts her as a sham
11
Q
“Every kind of place”
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- donors not superior like Kathy
- are human experiences like this > a class system?
- in order to have an enjoyable life like Kathy, we need to have a class system. We must ensure people are inferior. Human Nature relies on prejudice and conflict and hierarchy. Are we all deeply unpleasant like Kathy? Are we fooling ourselves like her?
12
Q
“Carers aren’t machines”
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- They are?
- Part of huge machine, generating clones and then killing them, industrial machinery
13
Q
“Of course, you choose your own kind. That’s natural.”
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- Should it be natural?
- Kathy’s justification for herself
- Social Class / Privilege
- Wrong Human Nature
- If we don’t have a class system, then this clone thing wouldn’t happen, so actually this is natural. Human life > disposable
14
Q
“If I’d never started choosing, how would I ever have got close again to Tommy and Ruth after all those years?”
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- got close - semantic field of hunting
15
Q
“It feels just about right to be finishing come the end of the year”
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- want her to keep going until the end of the year.
- “for another eight months” - not nine months, allusion that clones can’t have children.
- Cruel society
