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Never Let Me Go Literary Analysis
In the Days of Past Futures, Keith McDonald approaches the novel Never Let Me Go through a sociological lens and by also forming parallelisms between fiction and reality to create speculations between the two. McDonald considers an autobiography to be a genre that accounts for a life story through traumatic events or social injustice. He incorporates this into Never Let Me Go by stating that the narration by Kathy H is a recount of her life and that the process of becoming a carer and donor served as the injustices and traumatic events that make an autobiography. An aspect of autobiography that McDonald also explores is meta-referencing, which is the drawing of attention of the novel itself. It’s important as the meta-referencing of the story

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