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Never Let Me Go
I. Introduction
a. Kazuo Ishiguro wrote an amazing novel called Never Let Me Go. As you read this book you will agree with me that it has great literary merit. It also has the full potential to become a classic and to be taught in schools. In reading this novel one may feel that the book addresses out current world. In our current world the scientific standings are changing, and so are the morals in the people. As you read the novel you will become familiar with the Hailsham school, which is the school where the children never leave. In this novel you will also start to see that this may come in to play in our world one day. These children are raised to be donors. They are never allowed to leave their school grounds, they don?t interact
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Once the organs are removed from the children?s bodies they will be donated. The children will be raised and once they are about twenty they enter a place where they will undergo their operations to remove the organs. Most of the people will complete which means die by the 3 or so operation. In the novel Ishiguro makes you very familiar with a little group of friends. There are three of the kids in this group and all the three are students of Hailsham.
Once the children reach there teens they are moved to a place called the cottage and at the cottage the children find out what fate has in store for them. Even thought the children know what is going to happen they still have things that they call ?dream future?. The dream future is when the kids dream of what they could of become if they were normal. While living in the school the kids can choose to make things, like art projects, this is because people want to see if the clones actually have
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This novel has a very good insight on the morals in society. As you read this book you will realize that this could easily happen in out society today. It is a post war country and they are willing to do anything they have to make sure that their country will make it. This shows that the morals of society are frequently decreasing, they are willing to raise people not they them live any kind of life only a life of procedures so that their organs can be donated to the people who get to live their lives. The normal people are no different then the people raised in the Hailsham school, except the people in he Hailsham school do not have a real identity its just a first name and a life where you stay in one secluded place until you eventually die from all the

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