Never Let Me Go Analysis

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In the story of Never Let Me Go, the characters are not real people. They are clones for other people. Their purpose is to be grown up healthy and not have an idea of the real world. They are basically harvested for their organs. This is not very fair for these kids. Like all children, the Hailsham kids have hopes and dreams, are not to be denied of those. It is one of the great things about being a little kid, you do not know any better than to dream to be a superhero. As they get older, they learn the truth, that they are being harvested for organs. They should not have their lives used to preserve the lives of others. The negatives outweigh the positives because the younger people give up their organs, which is awful because they have been alive for a shorter amount of time, they did not make any mistakes to their body as the people who need the organs might have, and because everyone deserves a great life. …show more content…
You are always a part of Hailsham and that does not change until you are old enough to start your donations. This is very unfortunate, because as soon as the Hailsham children grow up, they get their vital organs taken out of them to be put into someone else. As Kathy and her friends grew up as normal kids at Hailsham, living normal lives without a care in the world about what is going on around them. Like all kids, they transfer into teens, who start to think about their life, who are they, and where are they going. They all tell each other what they wanted to be when they grew up, until Miss Lucy had to put a stop to it. She told them, the truth, as she believed they were old enough. This a completely awful thing to tell someone young with dreams, as she basically tells him to stop

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