Never Let Me Go #20 the REAL E.N.D.

"You poor creatures." (Madame, page 272)

I think it is safe to say that I am not the most intellectually deep person, seeing as how I said that in almost every post. However, I enjoy life this way because it's always full of surprises. As I'm sure can be expected, I was sooo blown away by the end of this. There's no hope. It's all just a gray blob. Their lives are pointless. Granted, their bodies saved lives, but the ends don't justify the means. It is a very realistic book, which is something I never thought I'd say. I can really see this happening some day in the future, and this book, as well as Brave New World is a great reason to persevere with pro-life efforts. It's a slippery slope like I said before and I just hate to think about what would happen if we started sliding and couldn't stop.

Never Let Me Go # 19 Ouch. That hurt.

"There was no way to reverse the process. How can you ask a world to put away that cure, to go back to the dark days. There was no going back."(Miss Emily, page 263)

Oh my. OH MY. OH MY GOSH! Yeah, that was NOT what I was expecting, but I appreciate the thorough explanation. It goes back to what I harped about all of Brave Ne World, which is the worthy cause of human rights. I can easily see how this could turn to reality. Once on the verge of a discovery, no one wants to give up because of a petty thing like human rights. (sarcasm.) This book is why pro-life activists fight so hard against ALL forms of embryonic stem cell research and cloning and abortion and contraception: it's a slippery slope. In the words of the Phantom of the Opera, it becomes "past the point of no return, the final threshold! The bridge is crossed so stand and watch it burn." Great song, and very applicable to this book.

Never Let Me Go #18 Here we go!

" Very well then. Come inside. Then we'll see what it is you wish to talk about." (Madame, page 249)

Even with my lack of sixth senses, I have a hunch that something is about to go down here! This whole book, I had assumed that this was just a memoir of Kathy's, but I think we're about to get into some real info that can change the course of this book. I can't believe Madame is still alive! Also, I think that it was so nice of Ruth to go to such trouble to remedy her mistake of preventing Tommy and Kathy's relationship. I used to really loathe Ruth because she was possessive and manipulative and a liar, but she has redeemed herself in my eyes now. I'm all anticipation for the convo that had better explain the whole book.

Never Let Me Go #17 I'm on a boat!

"And beyond the dead trunks, maybe sixty yards away, was the boat, sitting beached in the marshes under the sun." (NLMG, page 224)

When, oh when will anything be explained? Something huge had better be about to happen to connect all this because everything so far is just a bunch of scattered stories. But I suppose that is the writing style of Kazou Ishiguro. Intentional irritation. What is the point, I would love to know, of telling a ton of random stories about a girl's bizarre life?? It's like how many licks it will take to reach the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop. The world will never know.

Never Let Me Go #16 Never Let Me Go

"But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we'd understood that back then--who knows?-- maybe we'd have kept a tighted hold of one another." (NLMG, page 197)

I know that this comes as a shock, but I don't know what to think about this. It baffles me how well the author tied in the title to the rest of the book while still making it interesting! If it were up to me to name this book, I'd probably say something like Ruth, Tommy and Kathy's Adventures During and After Hailsham.Would it include everything that happened? Yes. Would you fall asleep before you got past the comma? Yes. I love how the title ties in to every part of Kathy's life: from Hailsham with her doll, to them going their seperate ways for donations, to loosing Ruth. Big stuff!

Never Let Me Go #15 RUTH!

"We all know it. We're modeled from trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps. Convicts, maybe, just so long as they aren't psychos. That's what we come from. We all know it, so why don't we say it? A woman like that? Come on. Yeah, right, Tommy. A bit of fun. Let's have a bit of fun pretending. That other woman in there, her friend, the old one in the gallery. Art students, that's what she thought we were. Do you think she'd have talked to us like that if she'd known what we really were?  What do you think she'd have said if we'd asked her? 'Excuse me, but do you think your friend was ever a clone model?' She'd have thrown us out. We know it, so we might as well just say it. If you want to look for possibles, if you want to do it properly, then you look in the gutter. You look in rubbish bins. Look down the toilet, that's where you'll find where we all came from." (Ruth, page 166)

Holy smokes!!!! That is what I like to call laying down the law. I was going to just take a small segment of this, but there is just so much going on here that I had to include it all! So that's probably why Kathy looks in the porn magazines, because she thinks only low-life people, people that never ammounted to much would be her possible. It is so sad and it sums up so much of this society. The kids are just trash recreations waiting to be harvested like a garden. It makes me wonder why they even go to school and have lives if they're just brought up like lambs for the slaughter.

Never Let Me Go #14 Norfolk

"In other words, she'd gone out of her way to let us know she wasn't very interested about the prospect of finding her 'possible'." (NLMG, page 146)

As of right now, I am at work. I'm blogging and working at the same time because I can just multi-task like that. Sometimes, I really hate technology because it does things that it thinks is best without asking you because you KNOW best. What I find incredibly infuriating is when it deletes an entire, well thought-out post that only had to be submitted because it felt the computer needed restarting. I am becoming Amish after this post. What I HAD posted about was how neat it was/is that Kathy understands people so well to see past their pretenses. I have never nor likely will ever have that gift, and I was just admiring it before the great restart.

Never Let Me Go # 13 It's possible...

"In other words, she'd gone out of her way to let us know she wasn't very serious about the prospect of finding her 'possible'." (NLMG, page 146)

I am just baffled sometimes by the insight that Kathy has into Ruth and Tommy. How in the hay does she figure this kind of stuff out? I never can tell with these sorts of things such as what people are really thinking. I can never tell when people are joking, when they're being serious, or what people are thinking. Most of my life, it hasn't been an issue, but when it come to english and interpreting deep meanings in people's works, I'm hopeless! That's what baffles me about Kathy and this book. She so frequently knows what everyone is implying, what they're thinking and their emotions their masking. Lucky her!

Never Let Me Go #12 Okkkkkkaaayyyyy...

"In fact, I hardly saw the contorted bodies, because I was focusing on the faces. Even in the little adverts for videos or whatever tucked away to the side, I checked each model's face before moving on." (NLMG, page 134)

Wow. And I thought Siddhartha got awkward. This just blew me out of the water. My main question, other than (what the heck?!) is why the faces? What's the importance of the porn model's faces? Obviously, she knows that she can't be a model because Miss Lucy reminded them they can't do anything with their lives because they have to harvest their organs. She must be looking for someone, and I think it may be her possible. I don't know for sure, obviously, but I think it's possible she thinks her possible is in the porn magazines. Why this is, I shall never know.

Never Let Me Go #11 Because We Care

"We scare because we care." (NOT NLMG, Monsters Inc.)

Alright, this is not a quote from the book. However, it's very relateable, so I thought I'd give it a whirl! It's from Monsters Inc, which is a swell movie. Why I thought of it, I'll never know, but I think it was a stroke of luck. Because they care. Why are all the students taught diligently by teachers? Because they care. Why are they reminded of seemingly  unimportant information over and over again? Because they care. Now who is they? I'll be honest, I'm not entirely sure! Probably someone like Madame or Miss something-or-other. Something I just thought of: are there any male professors?

Never Let Me Go #10 Hmmmmm.

"I see what you mean... I just keep thinkgs about it all the time. About Miss Lucy." (Tommy, page 107)

Miss Lucy. Something about her is very off in my mind. She seems to have a conflicting conscience, like something is struggling in her about the students. What I find so strange is that when she bursts out and tells the students what's on her mind, it's always something they already know. That raises the question of what's wrong? Obviously, the students don't view what they view the way she wants them to view it. So what does she want them to change about their vision? Here is where my intellectual inabilities come in to inhibit further understanding. I have not the slightest clue what Miss Lucy wants the students to get out of her shpeels, and I doubt I ever will.

Never Let Me Go #9 Thank Heavens!

"Everything was going fine and according to plan, when Ruth and Tommy split up and it all got confused." (page 99)

Hmmmm. Now, I'm no judge, but I have a hunch. I think that Kathy likes Tommy! I swear I thought of it before this post, but I never thought to blog about it. TIL NOW! I assume that since these kids are from Hailsham that they can't get married, which is a bummer. Why, you might ask? Because weddings are single handedly, without a doubt my absolute favorite thing in the world!!!! I plan them for random people in my mind all the time, and I think I shall plan them (Tommy and Kathy) a wedding! Oh, heaven help this blog! It won't know what hit it!