Never Let Me Go

 

This novel was written by Kazuo Ishiguro who has been a Booker Prize

winner, one of his well-known works is “The Remains of the Day”. 

“Never Let Me Go” begins from that a female clone, Kathy, narrates her

childhood life at Halishm where is an exclusive boarding school secluded

in the English countryside.  As a human clone, Kathy and the others have

the same fate, to donate their organs until death.  Their fates cannot be

changed because “organs donation” is the main function for why they are

bred.  This plot brings me to remember Aldous Huxley's “Brave New

World”, where humans are created in test tubes and have been fixed

functions that they grow up to perform in society, the future of individual

has been set up from his/her birth, including the sex distinction, intelligence,

personality, capability and social ranking.  Everyone is forced to follow

those prescribed rules, but no one will fight or complain, they take those

rules for granted.  Regarding this point, the characters of this novel seem

to meekly accept their fates, of which plot is identical with the characters

of Huxley’s.

 

After finished its final page, this novel kept me thinking about its plot,

characters and themes long.  It is sad of me for Kathy’s and Tommy’s

destiny not to be changed even though how much effort they have done,

Kathy has to go on acting as the “carer” and Tommy has to go on donating

more organs till death.  The deepest sadness is arisen by that human clones

own their soul and aware the love but are deemed as “products”, no body

cares their needs, feeling and life, human beings breed them the only purpose

is for the harvest of organs.  If the human clones could not be treated as

human beings, why do them be given the perception and soul? Undoubtedly,

it is kind of torture for them.

 

I love this novel due to it touched my heart deeply, within this novel, Ishiguro

does not offer opinions on any issues, rather presents the questions in powerfully

compelling ways.  He adopts the plain and ungarnished statements to reveal the

 innermost heavy frustration of people, actually, to introspect ourselves, we

are dominated by the enormous social machine, perception, love and dream are

ppressed.  Pityingly, we seem to be under the same circumstances as the clones,

Ishiguro evokes those pains buried in our heart through this novel----“Never Let Me Go”.