never let me go

Question 1

author

Answer 1

Kazuo Ishiguro

Question 2

type of work

Answer 2

novel

Question 3

date of first publication

Answer 3

2005

Question 4

time and place written

Answer 4

england, between 1990 and the early 2000s

Question 5

genres of literature

Answer 5

coming-of-age, dystopian fiction, science fiction

Question 6

coming of age

Answer 6

focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood

Question 7

coming of age

Answer 7

focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood

Question 8

science fiction

Answer 8

speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts

Question 9

narrator

Answer 9

the one that leads the story
Kathy H.: is unreliable and not all-knowing narrator. it is a retrospective narrator

Question 10

tone

Answer 10

reflective, nostalgic, sombre

Question 11

point of view

Answer 11

Kathy speaks in the first person, so the reader only sees her poit of view. She describes her memories of characters and events subjectively, offering her own thoughts and reflections.

Question 12

tense

Answer 12

Kathy speaks in the present tense but switches to the past tense when sharing memories of the past

Question 13

setting-time

Answer 13

Late 1990s, although Kathy’s memories reach as far back as the early 1970s

Question 14

setting-place

Answer 14

various locations in England, including the Hailsham school, the Cottages, the town of Norfolk , Dover and Kingsfield