Never Let Me Go: Analysis

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" ... Unlike many other writers who distrust and avoid interviews, Ishiguro has been willing to submit to a surprisingly large number for a writer whose literary output has been restricted to six novels. Such willingness to discuss his novels may suggest that he himself senses the need to confront (mis)readings of his work ... "

"The central aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the narrator as storyteller is not used in the same way throughout Kazuo Ishiguro s six novels and that the literary strategy of storytelling plays a more active role in When We Were Orphans (2.000) and Never Let Me Go (2005) ... "

"Never Let Me Go draws a subtle analogy between the lives of the clones and the racially marginalized, exposing the tensions in contemporary science over the question of race ... "

"Kazuo Ishiguro's novel about human clones raised for organs, is most often critiqued as science fiction or dystopian literature by the scholarly community. Yet focusing on the institutional implementation of cloning obscures a more critically fertile theme: sentiment. As demonstrated in this article, the novel has deeper affinities with sentimental and abolitionist literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries than with speculative fiction ... "

"Now, the story he wants to talk about is his new novel, Never Let Me Go. Scratch that: He'd actually rather talk about anything else because when he sits down to describe the plot, he says -- again with the laughter -- that it sounds "like a very unpleasant book," a book that only weirdoes would take on vacation with them ... "

"One of the signature effects of Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction is a moment when a character behaves with sudden, inexplicable, and astonishing cruelty - not to a stranger, but to an intimate ... "

"In this article, I will investigate the concept of "othering" originally as part of a post-colonial theory. This concept is interested in many academic areas, including a literary study. In Kazuo Ishiguro's novel "Never Let Me Go" is about human clones raised for organs. The clones are excluded and discriminated to be "the other" from the normal people. The manifestations of othering in "Never Let Me Go" can be presented in the forms of linguistic features, indoctrination, objectification, and assimilation ... "