Quotes for Never Let Me Go - Paper 2

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IB English Language and Literature

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I don’t know…

“I don’t know how it was where you were” - Kathy

  • Repetition of phrase throughout the novel

  • Narrates as if the reader is also a clone

  • Clones are aware of their mortality and death is normalised

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Chapter 7 - You’ve been…

“You’ve been told and not told” - Miss Lucy

  • Students are aware of their mortality but this knowledge doesn’t influence how they live their lives

  • Irony - information should come as a shock but is treated as normal when students are told

  • Students wouldn’t be able to function if they were constantly thinking about their deaths

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Chapter 14 - We all know it…

“We all know it. We’re modelled from trash… that’s where we all come from. We all know it, so why don’t we say it?” - Ruth

  • Ruth finally crumbles when realising that her ‘possible’ life is not real.

  • Ruth is confronted by her own mortality, where she has previously been in denial

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Chapter 23 - I just waited a bit…

“I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be” - Kathy

  • Ambiguity of “wherever I was supposed to be” shows how Kathy is lost without her relationships

  • Her life was built on the relationships formed at Hailsham

    • all she had ever known

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Chapter 22 - I saw a little girl

“I saw a little girl… holding to her breast the old kind world… pleading never let her go” - Madame

  • motif of “never letting go”

  • emotional image of pleading

  • Dealing with the fear of inevitable loss

  • Mourning the fact that these children are effectively sacrificed for science

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Chapter 22 - No Tommy…

“No Tommy. There’s nothing like that. Your life must now run the course that’s been set for it” - Miss Emily

  • Tone of bluntness

  • shows that there is no future for these children other than what they were made for

  • lives are set out for them

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And we stood together

And we stood together, like that… just holding each other while the wind kept blowing… tugging our clothes

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