Never let me go themes and characters

Question 1

Main themes in NVLMG

Answer 1

Darkness – Sense of confusion and uncertainty – even lights make the image of Hailsham so that ‘you can hardly make it out at all’ page 244

Memory – questioned in its ability to create the truth or create a version of it ‘he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but remember Hailsham’ ‘getting the urge to order all these old memories’

Separation – Clones have one another – they are separate but come together until death with their limited time to make connections, they cherish them

Fences: Repeated motif throughout, restriction – fences that can be passed through the film - ‘The Great Escape’ and that cannot ‘Hailsham’, ‘Kingsfield’

Time: Truncated clone lives, precious fragile resource

Question 2

NVLMG introduction

Answer 2

Inspired by science fiction as new realism, 21st century writer Ishiguro offers ‘NVLMG’ as a social commentary on the advances of biotechnology and rural england in the 1980s and 990s as his clone protagonists exist within a referential setting. With key elements of technology and dystopia, Ishiguro is able to construct his novel in a way that amplifies the use of the theme of ‘….’

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Then 3 themes

Question 3

Kathy

Question 4

Tommy

Question 5

Ruth

Question 6

Miss Lucy

Question 7

Madame

Question 8

Miss Emily

Question 9

Rodney and Chrissie

Question 10

Ensemble

Question 11

Kathy key quotes

Question 12

Ruth key quotes

Question 13

Tommy key quotes

Question 14

Rodney and Chrissie key quotes

Question 15

Ensemble key quotes

Question 16

Madame key quotes

Question 17

Miss Lucy key quotes

Question 18

Miss Emily key quotes