Never Let Me Go Boat Scene Flashcards
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R+T like children
Boat Scene
‘Ruth and Tommy standing behind me, not talking, waiting almost like children to be told which way to go’
- ‘Almost like children’ -shows the reversal of the roles between K and R
- ‘not talking, waiting’ - has connotations of almost sheep like obedience
- LNK wider theme of R’s change
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R after going through the fence
Boat Scene
‘It’s only bending down like that. I’m sometimes not so clever at it.’
- ‘not so clever at it’ - reversal from R’s strong, stubborn before personality
- ‘only’ and ‘sometimes’ shows that R’s personality is not completely gone
- LNK to wider theme of R’s change
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R before going through the fence
Boat Scene
‘When Ruth saw it, she came to an abrupt halt. ‘Oh no’ she said anxiously. Then she turned to me.’
- ‘abrupt halt’ - juxtaposition to show unnaturalness of R’s movement and the contrast presented
- ‘ anxiously’ - shows the nervousness of R + her vulnerability/ fraility
- ‘turned to me’ - shows the reliance and dependence of R, linked to a wolf and a sheep
- LNK overall theme of R vulnerability and change
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sky description
Boat Scene
‘The pale sky looked vast’
- ‘pale’ is pathetic fallacy
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dead trees
Boat Scene
ghostly dead trunks poking out of the soil, most of them broken only a few feet up.
- ‘broken only a few feet up’ - representative of clones, which are killed young in donations
- ‘only’ emphasises the earliness at which they died
- ‘ghostly’ - ghost is a spirit of a past human, which shows the clones did have soulds
- ‘poking’ seems like they have just broken the surface, and had so much to live for
- LNK IMAGERY OF CLONES
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boat location
Boat Scene
‘ was the boat, sitting beached in the marshes under the weak sun’
-‘boat, sitting beached’ has connotations that the boat was meant to go somewhere/ do something.
- ‘ under the weak sun’ - pathetic fallacy
- LNK boat is representitive of Hailsham condiiton
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tree thats hungry
Boat Scene
‘another tree trunk, hollow and more emaciated’
- ‘emaciated’ is a verb generally used for description of people, which personifies it and futher emphasises the parallels between clones and the trees
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boat description
Boat Scene
‘it’s paint was cracking, and how the timber frames of the little cabin were crumbling away’
- ‘crumbling’ sounds like the boat is fading away, and is dying because of neglect
- ‘cracking’ has connottations of being split and broken
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boat painting
Boat Scene
‘It had once been painted sky blue, but now looked almost white under the sky’
- ‘sky blue’ has connotations of openess + friendliness,
- ‘sky blue to white’ - feels like it has been amost bleached, someone has tried to erase it
- ‘white’ is completely blank, nothingness
What does pathetic fallacy achieve in the boat scene?
Kathy uses it to display her emotions, rather than using her words
