What makes an orphaned child search for their parents, twins yearn for individuality, or humans desire an identity? Humans desire to have meaning in their lives by constantly looking for ways to individualize themselves. They want to be deemed significant and inimitable by the rest of the world. Kazuo Ishiguro, author of Never Let Me Go, was born and raised in Japan, until his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five years old. Throughout childhood, he is left as a social outcast, feeling too English for Japan and too Japanese for England. He, similar to the clones in Never Let Me Go, searches for a sense of meaning throughout his life. His background and heritage is dissimilar to those around him, leaving him with no clear identity.
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She searches through multiple acts of self-expression and curiosity. She and the other children grasp ahold of anything that can add value to their life, such as small individual collections, and their ability to create art pieces. Throughout their upbringing, they are raised to seek approval for their creativity and expressions of their soul, their art. The student’s identities are weak and fragile because they are solely based on this approval, causing their identities to be easily transformed into a new one. Kathy and her classmates, for instance, lead an experiment fueled by curiosity, resulting in them having to reflect on their own image. What starts off as a lighthearted joke on Madame, turns into the student’s realization that something is drastically wrong. The students decided to test out Ruth’s theory to see if “[Madame was] really afraid of [them]” (Ishiguro 34).After the theory was proven, Kathy points out, “the first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it’s a cold moment” (Ishiguro 36). This event strikes a foreign insight into every one of the students and changes their view of their own identity. Kathy, unsettled by this awareness, continues the perpetual search for her true
She searches through multiple acts of self-expression and curiosity. She and the other children grasp ahold of anything that can add value to their life, such as small individual collections, and their ability to create art pieces. Throughout their upbringing, they are raised to seek approval for their creativity and expressions of their soul, their art. The student’s identities are weak and fragile because they are solely based on this approval, causing their identities to be easily transformed into a new one. Kathy and her classmates, for instance, lead an experiment fueled by curiosity, resulting in them having to reflect on their own image. What starts off as a lighthearted joke on Madame, turns into the student’s realization that something is drastically wrong. The students decided to test out Ruth’s theory to see if “[Madame was] really afraid of [them]” (Ishiguro 34).After the theory was proven, Kathy points out, “the first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it’s a cold moment” (Ishiguro 36). This event strikes a foreign insight into every one of the students and changes their view of their own identity. Kathy, unsettled by this awareness, continues the perpetual search for her true