Never Let Me Go

Hey all,

Before I get into the real post for today, I would just like to note that while reading Never Let Me Go, couldn't help but notice a resemblance to an episode of CSI. In this particular episode, a couple gave birth to a son who had major health complications and would require organ donations and bone marrow transplants over the duration of his life, so they gave birth to another child to effectively use for harvesting her organs. Did anyone else notice this connection?

The narrative used in the novel was different than what I am used to. I found that instead of focusing more on characters or events it was centred around the setting, which was more more vividly described. In a way I actually felt more invested in the setting rather than the storyline.

Alike the other books that we have read, there is a distinct patient-caregiver relationship throughout the novel. Although, in Never Let Me Go, it is more defined for the reader than the other texts in the sense that he even refers to the caregiver as the "carer." In addition to this similarity, the idea of othering was also invoked with the cliques at the school and the concept of othering within othering was also apparent when Ruth and Tommy exclude Kathy because she can't understand what it's like to be a donor.


In all, I felt it was a somewhat interesting book, although I would have preferred a narrative that was perhaps more people or event centred, that raises a number of ethical questions concerning the possibilities associated with cloning.