Never Let Me Go+Frank, context+some critics

People accept…

“People accept the hand that they’ve been dealt and try to make the best of it,”

it’s all that you know…

It’s that’s all you know…you cannot see the boundaries for which you have to run,”

To find love, friendship…

“To find love, friendship, something meaningul and decent, within the horrific fate that you’ve been given,”

An allegory about…

“Allegory about an evil manmade system…which may or may not exist in the real world today,”

young people who…

“young people who in 30 years go through what most people…go through in 70 years,”

we cannot escape…

“We cannot escape our mortality,

that phrase…(about the title)

“that phrase…it’s an unreasonable request. The person who makes such a request knows that just cannot be delivered,”

what we do when…

“What we do when we realise we haven’t got that much longer,”

Betty T. Benett

Shelley  “underscores the self-centeredness of those who have power like Victor Frankenstein.”

Marilyn Butler

“what happens when a man tries to have a baby without a woman,”

Marxist theory

that creatyre both victim of society+agent of political chabge—> creature represents proletariat, alienated from fellow workers (humanity), shapes hisb revenge on destructioj of traditional societal arrangement of family in spirit of Marxist inexorability

Anne K. Mellor

the novel aims to “criticse the more dangerous implications of the scientific method and its practical results,”

Matti Hyvarenin

• Kathy is telling story to clone who does not eeed explanation we need

Sarah Kerr

"The eeriest feature of this alien world is how familiar it feels”

Jo Walton

"The most chilling thing of all is how completely and utterly kathy accepts her lot”

Patrick Query

Challenges the reader to link the docile assent they are reading about with their own habits of assent