NEVER LET ME GO

                                                                                                - Kazuo Ishiguro

This is a plot which takes place in a dystopian-verse of late 1990's England. The world of "Never let me go" is scientifical advanced enough to built  human-clone in anticipation of prolonging human's life span. A clone is built using genetic information and raised in a special institution called Hailsham. As young adults, they start donating their vital organs. All donors receive organs from their designated 'carers'. This novel is narrated by a clone named Kathy. Her reminiscences of her childhood in hailsham and her friends Tommy and Ruth are the main plots of this novel. She recalls her complex relationship with each one and with the Hailsham. She often pauses to explain Hailsham rituals. Although the students learn vaguely about the donation program, their guardians shield them from a full understanding of their future. Miss Lucy, their guardian disagrees with this indirect approach. However, the students also generate their own forms of knowledge through rumor and speculation. They develop theories to help explain what the guardians will not discuss, although they can only test these theories indirectly. Although the younger students avoid discussing donations, Kathy and her classmates begin to joke about them as teenagers. In one running joke, students pretend to unzip themselves and hand over their organs. This may be said in a humorous way but the core point is very pathetic. 

Kathy often plays her favorite track, “Never Let Me Go,” when she is alone in the dormitory. The refrain, “Baby, baby, never let me go,” makes her think the song is about a woman who miraculously has a baby after being told that she cannot have children. Kathy imagines the woman singing and holding her baby. The song conveys the woman’s happiness, but also her fear that the baby will be taken away. One day, Kathy is singing along to the song and swaying her pillow like a baby. When the song ends, she sees Madame watching her from the hallway. Madame is crying, and leaves abruptly because she knew the students could not have babies.

In my perspective the clones are created for a purpose to serve humans, overating their feelings is like downcasting for a server crash of an A.I. They are like meats that we grow for a purpose and harvest when we need.