Never Let Me Go⚰️💔🩻 Flashcards
(96 cards)
1
Q
There have been times over the years when…’
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‘I’ve tried to leave hailsham behind’
2
Q
‘The more we heard and looked at her…’
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‘The less she seemed like Ruth’
3
Q
‘But I kept…’
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‘you apart’
4
Q
‘We were holding onto each other because that was the only way…’
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‘to stop us being swept away into the night’
5
Q
‘To drive off to wherever…’
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‘I was supposed to be’
6
Q
‘We’re modelled from trash…’
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‘Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps’
7
Q
There were powerful…
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Tides tugging us apart
8
Q
‘You were ____ pawns’
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Lucky
9
Q
‘My name is Kathy H. I’m _____ years old, and I’ve been a career now for over ______ years’
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‘Thirty-one’ ‘eleven’
10
Q
The moment you realise that you really are…
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Different to them.
11
Q
Believed that when you saw the person you were copied from…
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You’d get some insight into who you were deep down
12
Q
Our models, what they were like…
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That’s nothing to do with us Kath.
13
Q
She saw and decided in a second…
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What were were (italics)
14
Q
‘As if a pair of large spiders was set…
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To crawl towards her’
15
Q
‘Or maybe I’m remembering…
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It wrong’
16
Q
‘Golden…
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Time’
17
Q
‘I lost Ruth, then I lost Tommy, but…
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I won’t lose my memories of them’
18
Q
The sort of loyalty…
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She inspired in me in those days
19
Q
Judy Bridgewater. My old…
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Friend
20
Q
(About the gallery)
There was an unspoken rule that we should…
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Never even raise the subject in their presence
21
Q
‘She said they revealed what you were like inside. She said…
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They revealed your soul’
22
Q
We did it to prove…
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You had souls at all’
23
Q
You’ve been told…
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And not told.
24
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You’ve been told, but none of you…
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Really understand’
25
‘You know, Ruth, we might be coming in a few years’…
To visit you’
26
You were kept away from…
The worst of those horrors
27
After all, it’s what we’re…
Supposed to be doing, isn’t it?
28
We’ve loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can’t…
Stay together forever
29
I’ll have hailsham with me, safely in my head, and that’ll be something…
No one can take away
30
‘All we could see really was a dark…
Fringe of trees
31
I certainly wasn’t the only one of my age…
To feel their presence day and night
32
‘It’s just as well the fences at hailsham aren’t electrified. You get…
Terrible accidents sometimes’
33
‘We rarely stepped beyond the…
Confines of the cottages’
34
It was like someone coming along with a pair of shears and…
Snipping the balloon strings
35
‘Privileged…
Estate’
36
‘The drugs the…
Pain and the exhaustion’
37
‘If I didn’t want to be creative…
That was perfectly alright’
38
She was afraid of us in the same way
Someone might be afraid of spiders
39
‘Sandpit
Incident
40
Fantasy
Land
41
What does the Judy Bridgewater Tape symbolise?
Friendship
42
What does Norfolk symbolise?
Hope
‘The lost corner of England’
43
What does hailsham symbolise?
Control/home
44
What do animals symbolise?
The fact the clones are different to ‘normal’ humans
45
What do the woods symbolise?
The fear of the outside world
46
Mad
Animal
47
That’s what each of you was
Created to do
48
Unzipping
Incident
49
Songs
After dark
50
The secret
Guards
51
Euphemism
Completion
52
To describe cottages
‘Virtually falling down’
53
Two
Separate Ruth’s
54
Open-plan
Office
55
Dream
Future
56
What is ironic about the charity shop?
Irony - holds things you don’t want
Clones have to donate organs which are things they need
57
Sweety
Gums
58
He doesn’t see you like, you
Know, a proper girlfriend
59
To describe the pencil case
‘Gorgeous item’
60
Jerk me
Out of my dream
61
Like day
Turning into night
62
Heart
To hearts
63
(Tommy) isn’t like
A real hailsham student
64
The donations
Programme
65
What does the boat symbolise
Their trapped lives
66
What does the clown symbolise?
Kathy’s fear of losing her memories
67
You haven’t been that slow
At making friends with at least some of the veterans
68
Quotations about the nature of Hailsham.
‘unworthy of privilege’
‘misuse of opportunity’
Miss Emily believes that Hailsham is a good place, students should feel honoured.
69
Quotation: Kathy’s language of a constant underlying danger.
Tommy’s Recovery Centre
‘I can’t help but picturing a swimmer taking a dive off the top, only to crash into the cement.’
70
__________ humans in, cultivated environments… as sensitive and intelligent as ___ ________ _______ _______
reared, any ordinary human being
71
shadowy objects….
…in test tubes.
72
‘reared’
Explain.
- Associated with animals.
- Despite her best intentions, even miss Emily doesn’t see the students are really human.
- She doesn’t see the student as ‘ordinary human beings’
73
Shadowy objects in test tubes
Explain.
- Takes away the humanity of the students.
- They are only part of a medical experiment in the eyes of society.
74
Miss Emily: ‘For a long time you …
… were kept in the shadows
- Students occupy a life between life and death.
75
Madame: ‘poor…
…creatures’
76
Language is used to dull the horror of what is actually happening to the students.
Give quotations.
‘Donation’
- Usually something that is given freely and willingly.
- Not the case.
‘Complete’
- Remind use the donors are not human.
77
Setting of Hailsham.
- Isolated
- Away from society
- Open
- Space for the clones
- Positive and negative memories
78
Setting of the woods.
- Rumors - started deliberately? Psychological barriers are more effective than actual fences.
79
Setting of the Cottages.
‘The cottages were the remains of a farm’
‘virtually falling down’
- Halfway house
- Veterans - not from Hailsham.
- Run-down (contrast to Hailsham)
- Students don’t mind it - ‘none of us minded the discomforts ones bit’
- Less retrained than at Hailsham.
80
Setting of the Recovery Centres.
Kathy:
‘no real sense of peace and quiet’
Becomes…
‘a familiar and precious place’
Sinister. Removal of vital organs. Completions.
- ‘Recovery’ is ironic, they will only recover short term.
81
Kathy’s use of present in the retelling of past events.
- Both Kathy and Moira have been rejected by Secret Guard.
- Moira mocks it but Kathy gets defensive about it.
‘Moira was suggesting that she and I cross some line together, and I wasn’t prepared for that yet.’
82
Pattern in structure: When Ruth does something wrong, Kathy…
1. Gets angry.
2. Rationalises it and changes her mind.
‘slow making friends with at least some of the veterans’
- Kathy initially walks away
- Looking back, ‘I can now see things more from Ruth’s viewpoint.’
83
Miss Lucy: ‘None of you will go to America, none of you will be film stars and none of you will be working in supermarkets’
Explain.
- Lack of free will distresses Miss Lucy
- Supermarket is not a high ambition but money gives the students independence which will never be available to them.
84
Conditioned out of having free will.
(Kathy)
‘I’d develop a habit of taking long, solitary walks but that I’d start learning to drive a car.’
‘I’d have thought you were mad.’
Freedom of choice.
Kathy is disbelieving she will have these things.
85
Miss Emily: ‘You life must now…
… run the course that’s been set for it.’
- finality of the statement
- the free will they thought they had doesn’t exist.
- Illusion of free will.
86
‘it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game…
… you were lucky pawns’
- Tommy and Kathy get little comfort from this.
- A pawn will always be sacrificed and is irrelevant.
87
Has the Illusion of free will made more pain for the clones?
You decide…?
88
Kazuo Ishiguro says that NLMG is a story about…
Sadness of ‘human condition’
89
Quotation: Hailsham is an exception to the normal conditions for clones.
‘reared in deplorable conditions’
90
Questions about the human condition.
- Is it right to create people so they can save others?
- Science gone too far?
- How can any human be seen as a ‘shadowy object’ in a test tube? Why would we think that?
- If cloning could save the lives of loved ones would we stop and think about the moral implications?
91
Miss Emily: ‘ there wasn’t time to take stock to…
… ask the sensible questions.’
92
How you were regarded at Hailsham…
had to do with how good you were at “creating”.
93
Norfolk came to be a
real source of comfort for us.
94
Our models, what they were like,
that’s got nothing to do with us.
95
Tommy doesn’t like girls who’ve been with …
well, you know, with this person and that.
96
Maybe I did know, somewhere deep down.
Something the rest of you didn’t.
