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The clones are just like normal school kids - they play make-believe, they have best friends, etc

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I accepted the invisible rein she was holding out, and then we were off, riding up and down the fence, sometimes cantering, sometimes at a gallop. I’d been correct in my decision to tell Ruth I didn’t have any horses of my own, because after a while with Bramble, she let me try her various other horses one by one, shouting all sorts of instructions about how to handle each animal’s foibles.

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Cathy wants to help Tommy but he is still raging and he ends up hitting her

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So I reached forward and put a hand on his arm. Afterwards, the others thought he’d meant to do it, but I was pretty sure it was unintentional. His arms were still flailing about, and he wasn’t to know I was about to put out my hand. Anyway, as he threw up his arm, he knocked my hand aside and hit the side of my face.

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Hailsham was the last time the clones felt "normal" and its memory is a great connector to its former students

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It was that exchange, when we finally mentioned the closing of Hailsham, that suddenly brought us close again, and we hugged, quite spontaneously, not so much to comfort one another, but as a way of affirming Hailsham, the fact that it was still there in both of our memories.

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where they came from/who they were modeled after is an attempt to dehumanize the clones

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We all know it. We’re modeled from trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps. Convicts, maybe, just so long as they aren’t psychos. That’s what we come from. We all know it, so why don’t we say it?

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Works Cited

Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. Harper Perennial, 2006.

Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go. Vintage International, 2006.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Dover, 1994.

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Society believes that conditioning people to not be able to think for themselves is the secret to widespread happiness

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And that ... is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

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NEVER LET ME GO
- clones' humanity is shown not only through their art but also through their relationships with one another -> couple's deferral

- the clones have hopes and dreams but they know what their life purpose is

- the children are very normal - they play make-believe, they have crushes, they form friend groups
- the rest of the world doesn't want to recognize their humanity

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Now that John has entered the society he is not allowed to leave - his free will has been stripped from him

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free thought is stopped from an early age

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This phrase is supposed to mask how horrible this society is

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He hates humans but he especially hates Frankenstein because his own creator will not take responsibility for him

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All the creature wants is someone to love him so he demands that Dr. F make a companion for him

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The creature is so ugly that he is shunned by everyone he meets

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go on with the experiment

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conditioning and hypnopedia

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Community. Identity. Stability

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BRAVE NEW WORLD
- a community without love is empty
- no room for individuality/flaws/deviation from the norm
- @ surface level society seems great, but if you look deeper then it turns into something dark and horrific
- Marx is bullied
- John and Linda are treated like zoo animals

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All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.

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I am alone and miserable: man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create.

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“yellow skin [that] scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of pearly whiteness; but these luxuries only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion, and his black lips”

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In a world where it seems harder and harder to empathize with one another with each passing tweet, election, etc. we need to return to reading as a way to bridge the gaps between “us” and “them.” Our differences have never been greater, political opinions can split families, and something you said ten years ago may lead to a social demise. However, I believe that it is important to keep in mind that, as different as we may seem, humans all share connections that in the end are unbreakable. We all need to be loved, we all need community, and we are all walking towards an end and no one knows what comes after the end, whether it be paradise or oblivion. That last point may sound nihilistic and depressing, but if we were to take this crucial tie that binds us all together into consideration when looking at those that may seem different, we will realize that there is no reason to devise differences to be afraid of. This is where reading comes in to play. When we read, we empathize with characters from worlds we have never seen and circumstances that are unimaginable. If we can empathize with an undead laboratory creation, clones whose main purpose in life is to donate their organs, and people who live in a society that has extinguished free thought, then we can empathize with people who look and talk differently than we do. All we need to do is open a book.

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FRANKENSTEIN
- monster just wants to be loved
- everyone hates him because of his appearances
- readers sympathize with him because we can relate to his human need for love and connection

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- need to belong strengthens communities
- use our differences to build relationships and work together
- need to belong can create an us vs them mentality
- shun anyone deemed as "different" so other people won't notice our own differences and therefore shun us

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I believe that everyone feels an intense need to belong to a community. Humans are social being, and this shared desire has the power to both bring communities together and, ironically, to tear them apart. When we read books like Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights/ Never Let Me Go, and Brave New World, we can empathize with supposedly inhuman characters based on their need to belong to a community. Through this empathy with book characters, we can better connect with our peers.

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It is only through understanding our differences that we can truly form a tight-knit community. We all have flaws and we all have strengths, but unless we can use these to work together and build each other up humanity could very well fail.

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"People who read imagine the lives of others. Literature makes other people more real to us. It invites us to notice differences but, even more so, points towards commonality..."

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Fear: Dying alone / without changing the world in a way. We want to matter in the end and we want a legacy after we're gone.
Desire: Community, relationships, friendships, love

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- Frankenstein
- NLMG
- Brave New World