Never Let Me Go, “Give it a Go”—From The All Too Human, To Humans: The Lost Children of Hailsham

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This essay, shunning the use of critical discourse of posthumanism and the science-fiction dystopia, reads Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go in a way that the story should be viewed as a life of normal people, the people the characters (clones) are copied from. To read in such a way, the paper traces the social movements from the 1960s to the 1990s, particularly in terms of the commercial and sexual movement and see how the movements aligned with the way in which the story’s plot unfolds. In doing so, the paper aims to pursue that characters deserve more of a human understanding rather than sympathy. The end of the paper presents that particularly their (Tommy, Kathy and Ruth) struggle for time that will not wait and that a three-year extra span of life only delays an end that will inevitably come.

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