Essay #2, Give me feed back!

Essay #2 In the novel “Never Let Me Go”, by Kazuo Ishiguro girl named Kathy attends a boarding school cut off from the rest of the world. It is cut off because the school is home to “clones” who are being raised to be organ donors. Ishiguro writes through the perspective of Kathy in three stages of her life. Youth, Adult, and Carer (clones who care for clones in recovery) showing us how she went through life like most kids; school, homework, friends, boy drama, sex, work, and finding herself. Through this he makes an appeal to the end for clone organ harvesting (though does not exist yet, is more of a warning to the future). In the book, Ishiguro wrote in characters (the teachers) non clone to pose as ideal personalities for us. The teachers try to better the student’s lives, and make them as normal as possible while collecting the students’ art work to show at science debates about whether or not the clones had feelings and emotions. Ishiguro’s writing argued that clones would have emotions and feelings. Ishiguro did not write in the opposition of cloning on a scientific stance but on the more grounds of the clones having souls themselves. Just as scientists can’t prove where the little voice in our head is when we get that sixth sense that someone is watching us or the “oh I should have said that” line that goes off ten minutes after an argument. Ishiguro demonstrates that just because you can’t prove its there or where it comes from doesn’t mean they don’t have it. The three stages of Kathy’s life is much like the set up of “To Kill a Mocking Bird” from innocents to maturity, learning life lessons in a coming to age tale of a clone. Ishiguro sets up his novel this way to mark a different level of problems and a different level of discovery, through a character that you find many resemblances in yourself and you find yourself rooting for; hence rooting against harvesting/ cloning.