Though we
come to knowKathy and her friends Ruth and Tommy as real, feeling people, the story unfolds to
reveal the strange lives they live as not-quite people. Kathy and her friends are clones who
have been raised in a home for children and go on to become organ donors and caregivers in
adulthood. As readers, we know that they have thoughts and feelings like any other person, but
we must also accept (as they have done) that Kathy and her peers have very little agency in
their lives. Despite their innate human qualities and capacities, they have been brought into
the world and raised for the sole purpose of harvesting their organs. For this reason, I think
that the rest of society has chosen...
Friday, July 24, 2015
How is the theme of otherness presented in Never Let Me Go?
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