Irony In Never Let Me Go

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Which creates irony because Kathy’s loneliness is not so dissimilar from the loneliness of any normal human professional, but because society has decided that the clones are different from them, and life-possibilities of the clones are tightly limited. At the same time, the reader is able to see, that in the clones’ transition from student to carer to donor, similar emotions to “normal” growing up, normal romantic life, and normal professional development.

At the the end of “Never let me go” the reader would expect Kathy to have after all her experiences to want to break free from the chains of society holding her down and want to become her own individual and it is at this powerful point in the novel that we feel it is most likely to occur

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