Author’s background

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in

Japan; however, he was

nationalized in England. He

is one of the most

celebrated contemporary

authors in the English

speaking world. He won an

award in 1989 for his novel

“The reminds of the day”.

During the year 2005, he

wrote the novel “Never let me go”, here he

exposed ethical issues that we still can see

nowadays.

How society manages children’s minds

In the 1990’s, the English society was in trouble

as a result of the appearance of a heinous illness.

To resolve this problem, some boarding schools

took care of children who have no choices and

taught them that they had to donate organs to

people that needed them in order to survive. In

this especial school children were under

exhaustive medical checkups, because they have

to be very healthy. They provided programs with

especial contents and training. Children should

donate three times during their lives, however

some of them can’t resist medical procedures

and they die after their first donation.

As in every good story, love has to be present.

In this case you can see a love triangle. Kathy,

Tommy and Ruth are real friends, connected by the same future, be donors. Kathy is in love

with Tommy, but she can’t say it to him, Ruth is in love with him too, and Tommy doesn’t

know what he feels. Kathy is the one of them

who has more years to survive, because she

takes care of children, as a nurse; nevertheless,

she must accomplish the same objective in this

institution.

The setting

The story takes place in an alternative world,

very similar to our reality, during the 20th

century. The society has to assure the well-

being of people, so every decision that they

take should be based on benefits for the

community. The book’s author focused his

attention on social and economic problems,

where ethical and society’s survival issues were

dealing.

“Never let me go” is a science fiction book;

nontheless, specialists in this area disagree,

because they think that every society in the

world is always dealing with problems that put

them in confrontation. People have to decide

all the time between following the rules and

live according to what society can offer them,

or following their instinct and find their own

ways to survive and be happy.

We think that this kind of book can blow your

mind, because it will place you in a new world.

On the other hand, it gives you a clear idea of

what life means.

“Your life must now run the

course that’s been set for it”-

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never let me

go.

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