Never Let Me Go: Section 1 and Section 2

Section 1

Chapter 1

• The protagonist of the story named Kathy H, was 31 years old, and was described as an carer.
• This protagonist would be given the ability to choose their patient, due to the fact that they were very qualified in their job,
• Kathy here can’t seem to not have a nostalgia for her boarding school, Halisham.
• She would choose consistently people who attended her boarding school because she wanted to reconnect with her old friends.
• The girls would gossip about Tommy, and a group of boys would fuck with him by not drafting him for a game of soccer.
• Tommy accidentally hits her, and Kathy stops trying.

Chapter 2

• Tommy apologizes for hitting her, the damages to her being mentioned as having a cracked skull.
• Kathy was quite emberassed to be fronted like this in a public area.
• The incessant bullying of Tommy continued, and Tommy would take the bait and bitch.
• At Halisham, the skilled students at creating would earn major props from their peers.
• Tommy would go for an childish almost humorous style of art, and would be belittled.
• Tommy does not try to submit anything to the exchanges where students can exchange work.

Chapter 3

• Kathy meets Tommy and feels uneasy from being visible.
• Tommy talked to Kathy about the time he helped Miss Lucy to carry some materials back to her study.
• Miss Lucy told Tommy that he was not to blame for his lack of creativity, and that it was wrong for the guardians and students to peer pressure him.
• Miss Lucy believed the students were not taught enough about donations.
• There was a woman named Madame, who would visit Halisham to take away the best artwork and put it into a gallery.
• Madame was supposedly scared of the students, and while walking past her, she would shiver, people on the outside of Halisham would dread contact with them.

Chapter 4

• Kathy would prepare to stop being a carer, so she would have an increased feeling of sentimentality towards her time she spent in Halisham, in belief it would clarify and contextualize things.
• Kathy would remember the tokens conroversy, where the students who submitted art to the exchanges.
• The students that submitted art to the Exchanges got tokens where they could purchase other peoples work.
• Kathy and her classmates would not get similar compensation when Madame took her artwork, and during it, someone asked Mrs. Lucy why Madame was there, and she said the students would not comprehend it.
• Kathy would also describe monthly sales, where tokens could be used for toys and clothes.
• The stern guaridan would constantly lecture them about their rowdiness.
• Ruth would be a bit of a disciplinarian.
• Miss Geraldine would recruit Kathy as one of her “secret guards.”

Chapter 5

• Kathy would recall her involvement with the secret guard, who would be dedicated to protecting Miss Geraldine from kidnapping.
• The guard would collect evidence linking guardians and students to the plot, which they would draw to a conclusion of the students going into the woods beforehand.
• There were many horror stories of a boy found without feet and hands and a little girl starving.
• Everyone in the secret guard would somewhat just add to this type of mystery over the project.
• Kathy would try to teach Ruth how to play chess, and when she didn’t want to, Ruth the next day, would expel Kahty.
• Kathy would come to class with a new gift from Miss Geraldine, a pencil case, however, there was no purchase history, meaning it was a lie.

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Chapter 6

• Kathy makes up for her behavior by implying Miss Geraldine does favor Ruth.
• Another student asking where she got her pencil case, Kathy would cover for her calling it a mystery.
• Kathy would lose her favorite casette, a Judy Bridgewater album named Songs After Dark, which would hold sentimental value to her.
• Kathy would recall a visit to Norfolk where hse found it, the city, a Lost Corner of England.
• Kathy would return to the story, which would have the cover of Judy holding a cig to the cover, her favorite song being “Never Let Me Go”
• Ruth would aid the search for the tape and they would find it, still harboring the tape to this day.

Chapter 7

• The ciriculum would begin getting darker and more grim from ages 13-16.
• Miss Lucy would act manic around the students, and when two boys would discuss the future, she would tell them it would be predetermined for them to save lives with their vital organs.
• Kathy would lecture on donations and sex at the same time.
• Non students would attach more significance towards sex, while younger students would avoid discussing donations.
• A running joke would emerge about organ harvesting (man what the fuck)

Chapter 8

• In her last summer, Kathy would hear strange noises, such as Miss Lucy angrily scribbling out a stack of handwritten papers.
• Tommy would have a strange interaction with Miss Lucy but would keep it bottled out.
• Tommy would be offered a calender which he would walk away on sight of seeing it, possibly because of his breakup with Ruth.
• The guardians would have several contradictory messages about sex.
• Ruth believed the guardians wanted to prepare students for outside sex, but not sex inside the confines.
• Kathy wanted to have sex. (I think I picked up the wrong book)

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Chapter 9

• Kathy postponed her plan to have sex with Harry C.
• Kathy’s friends believed she could be Tommy’s next girlfriend.
• Harry was at a recovery center, where he have just given a donation.
• Tommy was not upset about the breakup but because of a conversation with Miss Lucy.
• Miss Lucy admitted it was a mistake to tell him to not be reative.
• Madame’s Gallery was more important than she first realized.
• Mrs. Lucy told Tommy to begin making art again, and Kathy’s intriuged, but they were trying to fix their relationship.
• Miss Lucy left Hailsham (DING DONG THE WICKED BITCH IS DEAD)
• Tommy and Ruth would get back.

Section 2

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

• Kathy would explain why Ruth’s comments bothered her, because they would confide in everything.
• Kathy and Ruth would discuss shit like their sex life.
• Kathy had sex with several veteran boys.
• Kathy would have several one night stands and strong sexual urged, and would try hard to impress the veterans, putting Kathy and Tommy to the wayside.
• The veterans did not gossip about sex, and treated the one night stands casually.
• Ruth would have expressed regret of throwing away her collection. Whereas Kathy kept hers.
• THe veterans avoid talking about students who left for goods, only mentioning them in connection of the items they owned.
• Kathy would pick up porn magazines who were owned by some guy named Steve.

Chapter 12

• Chrissie and Rodney would visit Norfolk claiming they saw Ruth’s possible in a office in Norfolk.
• The possible theory is that clones have models living in the outside world.
• Chrissie and Rodney invite Ruth on a trip to Norfolk to search for her possible.

Chapter 13

• Rodney and Chrissie borrow a car, though plans fell through, they got another car.

• On the way to Norfolk, Ruth becomes upset, and accuses Kathy of trying to make trouble.

• Ruth becomes upset and accuses Kathy of trying to make trouble.

• They stop at a cafe for lunch, where they discuss rumors about former students.

• They also suggest visiting their friend Martin, a carer who lives in Norfolk

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Chapter 14

• Rodney leads the way to the office, but Chrissie makes them stop to buy some birthday cards.
• Kathy overhears Ruth and Chrissie discussing deferrals again, while Ruth implies Hailsham students have special access to deferrals, and gets angry when they notice Kathy peeping.
• The students find the open plan office and Rodney points out an older woman.
• Ruth waits for a few minutes then return to take another look, then see Ruth’s possible leaving the office, finding them to be going to an art gallery.
• The students don’t follow the woman, instead asking if they are art students, prompting Kathy to explain they were interested.
• The woman from the office was supposedly not Ruth’s model.
• Katy resents Chrissey and Rodney on her behalf.
• Ruth does not acknowledge them.
• All the students were copied from trash, convicts, junkies and whores.

Chapter 15

• Tommy tells Kathy while looking for her lost tape.
• Tommy suggests he and Kathy should go on a search to find it.
• Kathy finds a copy in a secondhand store.
• Tommy buys it for her and tells that he thinks that the deferrals are connected to Madame’s Gallery.
• Miss Emily told another student that their artwork would reveal the soul, and Madame’s Gallery is used to determine if couples were truly in love.
• None of the artwork he made went into Madame’s Gallery.
• Kathy looking at porn may be a sign that she wants a relationship.
• Ruth feels assured knowing that her lust is actually quite normal and common.

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Chapter 16

• Ruth refuses to discuss the Norfolk trip and the others follow her lead
• Several veterans depart for carer training, while the rest talk about deferrals
• The “Norfolk effect” extends to Tommy and Kathy, who avoid discussing Madame’s Gallery
• Kathy discovers Tommy drawing imaginary animals and encourages him to continue
• A new group of students arrives, and Kathy feels Hailsham slipping into the past

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Chapter 17

• Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy grow increasingly distant
• Kathy confronts Ruth about her behavior toward Tommy
• Ruth suggests that Kathy is interested in Tommy romantically, but Tommy is not interested because of her sexual history
• Kathy starts training as a carer and keeps her distance from Ruth and Tommy until she departs.

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Section 3

Chapter 18

• Being a carer was a very often stressful and lonely job.
• She checked back on her old friend, Laura, who would be very exhausted given her new job.
• There were rumors that Halisham has closed.= and that Ruth had a bad donation.
• Trying to get to sleep, she was thinking of what occured to her in Wales, seeing a clown across the street.
• Kathy becomes ruth’s carer.
• The visits become increasingly guarded and silent.

Chapter 19

• Kathy becomes Tommy's carer a year after their visit to the boat.
• Tommy has just given his third donation and is recovering at the Kingsfield center.
• They spend relaxing afternoons reading, talking, and having sex.
• Tommy is drawing imaginary animals and even asks Kathy for her opinion on them.
• Kathy sees the animals as a sign that Tommy is still preparing to apply for a deferral, but she also feels they are doing everything too late.
• They expect to receive notice for Tommy’s fourth donation and plan to visit Madame.

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• Kathy drives Ruth to the Kingsfield recovery center
• Ruth panics when Tommy approaches the car, but Kathy hugs him
• Ruth tells a rambling story about another donor at her center
• Kathy cuts her off and Tommy laughs
• Ruth is quiet for the rest of the drive
• They walk through the woods to find the boat, but Ruth tires on the way
• Ruth panics again when they have to cross a barbed wire fence, but they help her through
• They find the boat, which is bleached and crumbling, but Ruth says it is beautiful
• They discuss Hailsham, Chrissie, and Rodney's well-being
• Ruth apologizes to Kathy for holding Kathy's sexual urges against her and for keeping her and Tommy apart
• Ruth encourages Kathy to become Tommy's carer and gives Tommy Madame's address
• They drop Tommy off at his recovery center
• Kathy promises Ruth to become Tommy's carer as she is dying

Regenerate response

Chapter 20

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Chapter 21

• Kathy and Tommy visit Madame's house to ask about deferrals.
• They see a framed picture of what Tommy thinks is Hailsham hanging in the corner of the room.
• Madame invites them inside and asks them to wait in a front room while she goes upstairs.
• Tommy explains his theory about Madame's gallery, and Madame realizes they believe she looks at their artwork to see their souls.
• Madame calls them "poor creatures," and Kathy thinks there are tears in her eyes.
• Madame turns to Kathy and asks if she wishes to continue, but Kathy realizes that Madame is actually talking to someone in the next room.
• Miss Emily enters in a wheelchair, and Madame tells Miss Emily to speak to them.

Chapter 22

• Miss Emily greets Tommy and Kathy, and explains that she is unwell and selling a bedside cabinet.
• She discusses the progressive movement that Hailsham was a part of, which aimed to make the donation program more humane and to prove to the public that clones had souls.
• Miss Emily confirms that deferrals never existed and that public opinion turned against Hailsham after the Morningdale scandal.
• Kathy asks Madame about their encounter years ago in the Hailsham dormitory, and Madame explains that she cried because she was thinking about the approach of a harsh new world.
• Tommy thinks Miss Lucy was right in wanting to be honest with the students, and he later screams in a muddy field on the way home.

Chapter 23

• Tommy stops drawing animals in front of Kathy, shifts their conversation to his donor friends, and asks for a different carer for his fourth donation.
• Tommy and Kathy spend a few last weeks together, and on Kathy's last day, they talk about Ruth and their relationship.
• Tommy says that they cannot stay together forever, and they share a goodbye kiss.
• Kathy drives away and imagines Tommy appearing on the horizon but stops the fantasy and drives away, crying but not out of control.