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    that every person shares. People look the other way. People believe in abolishing poverty. People believe in putting an end to disease. People believe that technology is the driving force that will be beneficial to everyone. In Kazuo Ishiguro’s, Never Let Me Go, the large boarding school home to the human clones, Kathy and Tommy, known as Hailsham, exists to raise these clones who have been brought into the world for the sole purpose of supplying their organs to non-clones.…

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    Levy spends the first half of his essay discussing how Never Let Me Go is a Bildungsroman. After proving this, he goes on to say that “Human rights law and Bildungsroman narrate a process that blunts the dangerous spontaneity of the individual, compelling them to integrate peacefully into the fabric of the social order” which is what Kathy does (Levy, 4). To rebel would hurt society, and since Kathy and her friends have been raised by society, it does not make sense that they would want to…

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    really explore and enlighten readers of what humanity means to others would have to be Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Both of these books create a controversy and make the reader truly think about what is morally right to them about humanity. Several parallels can be discussed when comparing the two works but I would like to focus on the three main parallels that spoke out to me. These comparisons include how the clones and the monster are treated as social…

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    In Never Let Me Go, author Kazuo Ishiguro depicts a society in which individuality is threatened by the pressure to conform through methods such as peer pressure and social expectations. Without a doubt, peer pressure is most commonly found in schools today, just as social expectations are suffocating the middle class’ desire to become their own unique person. If conformity means to “conform to a social role… brought about by a desire to ‘fit in’ or be liked,” then the characters of Never Let Me…

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    Never Let Me Go is a sci-fi movie about humans advances in science. Humans can live up to 200 years, as they created clones as they are predestined “organ donors.” Though that sounds like an astounding advancement in science, we see the perspective of these medical advances through those of the clones. Though sci-fi, the movie details on real life problems about the dehumanization of science and how one’s life can be left out in the pursuit scientific efforts for others to live through all…

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    In Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go the guardians and the system occupied the power role in the society. They had strict orders and they manipulated the students for their own purposes. The student's lives were unlived lives because they knew at a small age about their fate and what they would end up doing when they get out of Hailsham. The system’s orders and judgments ruined the students childhood and introduced them to a dark future. “ I don’t know how it was where you were, but at Hailsham the…

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    We have all been trapped at one point or another in our lives. Whether it is emotionally, physically or mentally trapped, we have all been there. Within the novel Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro, we find quite a few people, or should I say clones, who are trapped, but do not realize they are. The clones within this novel are not fairly treated nor do they even have a chance at their own lives. They are just a part of one big experiment that humans are testing out, but even along the way they…

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    the more friendly and positive manner that humanity can bring. The film “Never Let Me Go” pertains to the theme of an uncertain future in a unique manner in which, while the main characters hesitate to stand up to the considerable “injustice” that society enforces upon them, they nonetheless attempt to harness their “dreams” and obtain insight about how it is to experience the world on their own. In the film “Never Let Me Go,” the setting is portrayed in an alternate timeline somewhere in the…

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    that which is different before ever actually attempting to understand not only what those differences are, but also recognizing how these differences could be a benefit to society. In the novels Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, each author presents the reader with figures that society deems different,…

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    Both texts, Gattaca and Never Let Me Go show an alternative future based on the advancement of genetics and the effect they have on society. By genetically cloning individuals for organ harvesting and the attempt to create a perfect society with "perfect humans" it is evident that what matters most is what you are, not who you are. A constant display of dehumanisation is shown through the relationship between those who have been somewhat dehumanised and those who have been brought up in an ideal…

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