Kazuo Ishiguro's Novel Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro's Novel Never Let Me Go

Introduction

Kazuo Ishiguro is undoubtedly one of the most respected English letters authors and writer of Japanese origin but educated in England. Never Let Me Go (2005) it is, perhaps along with The Remains of the Day (1989), his work most praised to the point being considered by Time magazine as the best novel of the past decade. Ishiguro in Never Let Me Go exploring what it is that makes us human. Through Kathy he is asking whether we live for ourselves or for other people. The aims and objectives of this essay will be to explore the ways of living for others that is portrayed in the novel.

Discussion

Never Let Me Go is narrated in first person by Kathy, who at age 31 recalls memories of his adolescence and early adulthood. His memory leads to Hailsham, a private school where I grew up with the two most important people in his life: Ruth, a much livelier and determined girl she and Tommy, a young introverted but impulsive and self-control problems. Memories of Kathy show us how over the years the relationship evolves between three and, especially, how they face their role in the world, a secret in Hailsham which is revealed as their students become adults.

Kazuo Ishiguro hints from page one truth that is hidden in Hailsham and the protagonists will discover along the first third of Never Me Go: Kathy, Ruth, Tommy and the other students at the school are clones and their future role in society is to donate your vital organs, sacrificing his life for the benefit of a society that tries to ignore them until you need them to survive. The revelation of this terrible reality, shown by Ishiguro gradually meticulous and beautifully conveys the calculated method used by educators Hailsham to predispose students to meekly accept their condition, while describing the disturbing ease with which young accept their tragic fate.

The Ishiguro himself says that his novel is not about cloning as beyond the protagonists of Never Let Me Go are clones (a word that appears only incidentally written in a couple of times throughout the book) is what really matters so do the characters face an existence doomed to brevity, stoically awaiting the time when they will be forced to sacrifice. This feeling of helplessness is compounded by the lack of sensationalism with which the story is narrated by Kathy, who directs adulthood from his serene gaze to a generation that is about to disappear.

Never Let Me Go is a novel that resists seen in the science fiction genre; in fact this action lies even in the future but in England the last third of the twentieth century, in what may be seen as a parallel world (or, as Ishiguro calls it, an "alternative fiction") on the cloning has been developed and accepted by society. That is why Kathy narrates the events that may not be surprising for their peers, hence shy away ...