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To what extent is Kathy’s and Ruth’s friendship real?

Never let me go is a dystopian novel written by Kazuo Ishiguro, published in 2005. The book is divided in three sections: the childhood, were Kathy the main character describes her life with her other two best friends, Ruth and Tommy in a very special school called Heilsham, part two, in which the three characters are already adults, therefore they move to a residential complexion called “The Cottages” and they start discovering how normal people live, but especially their sexualities and how relationships work, instead in the last part concentrates on Kathy being a career and Ruth and Tommy being donors, this last section is called “completing”, because by donating
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During the book although sometimes Kathy and Ruth might seem real friends, there is always some kind of tension between them, this is shown in this quote, when she says ‘they didn’t exactly vanish’, I think that the author wrote this part of the quote to show us the state of pressure in which their friendship is always put in, as if it was always going to explode. On the other hand in the second part of the quote, ‘all the other things’ that Kathy was talking about, are all the nice memories that they have shared together during their lives. I think that Kathy describes these memories as ‘important’, to make the readers understand that Ruth as a friend wasn’t so influential on her, but the most memorable fact that Kathy considers ‘important’ are the memories that they share of their childhood, that as we see Kathy is so attached

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