Never Let Me Go A03

Question 1

What might have influenced the focus on organ donation by ishiguro?

Answer 1

At the beginning of the 21st century, the uk suffered a shortage of organ donors

Question 2

How might ishiguro have been “othered”?

Answer 2

He came to the uk from Japan in the 70s and has talked about the isolating experience of being the only non-white student in his school.

Question 3

What is the relevance of the plight of the _____/_____?

Answer 3

Ishiguro was uninterested in the plight of the brave slave, a usual dystopia convention, and instead focused on what he saw as real human behaviour: failure of rebellion

Question 4

What biographical context can be linked to ishiguros focus in harsh living conditions? (Cottages, kingsfield)

Answer 4

Ishiguro worked for a homeless charity and had been a social worker before becoming a writer

Question 5

Why might ishiguro have focused on societies ignorance of the struggles of the othered? (Miss Emily’s explanation)

Answer 5

Ishiguro was born in Japan, whose society was excessively ignorant of Japanese war crimes from world war 2 and it’s colonial era, such as the nanjing massacre, instead creating an image based on children’s media.

Question 6

What context can you link the morningdale scandal to?

Answer 6

In 1997, Richard seed announced a plan to clone a human before any laws were created to ban the process, creating a massive uproar surrounding the ethicality of cloning experimentation

Question 7

Dolly the sheep?

Answer 7

Ian wilmut created the first cloned animal in 1996 in roslin institute, Scotland