Never Let Me Go Annotations by Samantha Grembecki https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7 Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2016-11-14 02:05:22 UTC 2026-01-17 16:55:17 UTC hello@padlet.com What qoes in a good Annotation? sgrembecki https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/290853532 - important quotes 
- character development 
- conflicts 
- What themes have popped up in this chapter?]]> 2018-10-09 16:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/290853532 Chapter 1 sgrembecki https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/290924435 - "But, it means a lot to me, being able to do my work well, especially that bit about my donors staying "calm."  - Kathy is a carer and not a donor, yet she does her job well and helps people that are dying stay calm.
- "...He wanted to hear about Hailsham" - This shows that people are definitely privileged and under privileges. The guy that is dying is trying to live through her showing that society is nit fair.
- Kathy has a conflict with some parts of society because she gets to chose the donors when other people do not get to. 
- Kathy - from her perspective is a good person. She helps people with the problems they are having being carers, so she is a good person.
- Ruth - is Kathy's close friend
-Tommy - gets hyped up by the other kids. His head is large and the kids use that to make fun of him]]> 2018-10-09 18:02:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/290924435 Chapter 2 sgrembecki https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/290947612
  • “Then there were rumors almost everyday of pranks that had been played on him.”
  • This shows us that Tommy was more athletic than the other football guys, but he did not fit in with them. Even though this society is different, there are still regular high schooler drama. 
  • “We had kind of a big exhibition-cum-sale” 
  • This is obviously a big deal because the kids spent three months on the items. Tommy is also getting severely bullied because he did not supply an item to it. This creation was the only personal items that the kids were able to keep. This showed that society was very controlling. 
  • Conflict - The people at Hailsham have to be creative, but not everyone there likes art or is creative like Tommy is. Even still, art is really the only form of expression there. This makes him struggle and get made fun of. 
  • Ruth - She says that Tommy’s problems are because of the way that he acts. She does not give him any sympathy like Kathy gives him. 
]]> 2018-10-09 18:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/290947612 Chapter 3 sgrembecki https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/292902332 - "She did say something like that. She said I shouldn't worry. Not mind what other people were saying" 
- This shows us that there are still people that care for the kids even if they are just there for their organs. 
- "She's scared of us"
- Ruth says this to show us that the kids in the boarding school do not fully understand everything that is going on around them. They are kept in the dark. 
- Conflict - There is a continuing issue with the creativity of Tommy. He is not creative like the people. Miss Emily is says that is okay and they can bloom later with their creative. 
- Madam - She is introduced but no one knows very much about her. She just comes and goes. No one really knows her purpose in the book or in the character's lives. ]]> 2018-10-15 16:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/292902332 Chapter 4 sgrembecki https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/292970396 - "About what she did with our work, whether there really was a gallery"
- No one really knows what is going on with the art work or with her. Does it mean something? Do the people that preform the best get chosen for something? 
- "All I can tell you today is that its for a good reason. A very important reason. But if I tried to explain it to you now, I don't know think you'd understand. One day, I hope, it'll be explained to you." 
- The art work now obviously has a deeper meaning and so does Madam. As the readers though, we do not know what that means. 
- Miss Emily - she walks around and keeps her hair in her face that most people would brush away. Her purpose is not really known. 
- Conflict- Polly asked a question. She was not allowed to ask, but she did anyway. 
- Theme- Society keeps people quite and only certain people know what is going on.

]]> 2018-10-15 17:42:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/292970396 Chapter 5 https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/293421270 - "But at other times, I think that's wrong—that it was just to do with me and Ruth, and the sort of loyalty she inspired in me in those days."
- Even though Ruth was always kind of mean to her, she still stood by her. Kathy was even with her when Ruth was chosen to be a donor. 
- "The woods were at the top of the hill that rose behind Hailsham House. All we could see really was a dark fringe of trees, but I certainly wasn't the only one of my age to feel their presence day and night."
-The school Hailsham is a relatable landscape. It is not so extreme which makes more of an impact on the reader. The woods are the dark part of the story. There is a lot of places to hide, so there are more secrets. 
- There is a continued conflict with Ruth and Kathy. Ruth always has a problem with the people that are close to her. Even still Kathy is loyal to her. 
- Ruth - she turns to be out be snobby friend. ]]> 2018-10-16 15:40:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/293421270 Chapter 6 https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/293532728 -"Now, for much the same reasons I'd not been able to talk openly to Ruth about what I'd done to her over the Sales Register business, she of course wasn't able to thank me for the way I'd intervened with Midge. But it was obvious from her manner towards me, not just over the next few days, but over the weeks that followed, how pleased she was with me."
- Ruth and Kathy can not get along even though they have a deeper connection with one another. 
- Conflict - Kathy figures out that Ruth has passed. She is internally conflicted because she lost her life long friend but she lost the person that always. 
- Themes - What is the meaning of Kathy's life? ]]> 2018-10-16 18:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/293532728 Chapter 7 https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/294961816 - "Don't you know? If it's right on the elbow like that, it can unzip. All you have to do is bend your arm quickly" Tommy is still the laughing butt of people's jokes. They never grow out  if it. 
- The kids are starting to understand what they were meant for, giving up their organs. They begin to joke about it and kind of embrace it. 
- Conflicts - The people are becoming older and understanding their future. This can lead to some sort of issues of different people. 
- Conflicts - The characters are conflicted in the story about sex. If does not mean that much to them, but it does to other people. This can create internal conflicts and conflicts in between people. 
- Do these people have a real life? Do they really mean anything]]> 2018-10-19 18:17:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/294961816 Chapter 8 https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/295403445 - "Getting all umbrella" - This is a slur for the gay people. This means that even in the "un-special" people they still cast out people that are different then the normal. 
- Conflicts - Miss Lucy is having issues. She is blacking out words and bring super secreative. She seems always angry. Miss Lucy never really gives anyone an answer for anything. She is really hard to understand. 
- Tommy - He and Ruth breaks up. He and Kathy begin to have issues with their relationship too. He is still upset about not being creative.
- Kathy is till consumed by the idea of sex. She wants to preacice because she is tired of waiting for Tommy, but Tommy and Ruth break up. ]]> 2018-10-22 12:27:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/295403445 Chapter 9 https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/295411158 - "Listen, Tommy, your art, it is important. And not just because it's evidence. But for your own sake. You'll get a lot from it, just for yourself." - Miss Lucy tells art is very important now. He needs to become creative and work harder. The art in the Gallery is very important. 
- Conflicts - Tommy has internal problems because he has to be creative now, but he not. 
- Tommy - He does not want to get back with Ruth. He seems to be upset and really worried again about not being creative. Kathy does not seem to be able to get through to him. 
- Themes - Hopelessness,
confusion, and What is their purpose, what are they doing with their lives? ]]> 2018-10-22 12:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/295411158 Chapter 10 https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/295422537 - "If we were honest, though, particularly near the beginning, most of us would have admitted missing the guardians." - No one had ever really liked any of the guardians. This just shows you that they are now worse then they were at Hailsham. 
- "Of course, in practice, especially during the first months, we rarely stepped beyond the confines of the Cottages. We didn't even walk about the surrounding countryside or wander into the nearby village. I don't think we were afraid exactly." - The kids are uncomfortable in their new surroundings there is nothing for them there. They do not have any confidence in what they are doing or what is going to happen with them. 
- Kathy - She is now a book worm which is what everyone desires to be at the Cottages. ]]> 2018-10-22 13:05:10 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/295422537 Chapter 11 https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/295632357 - "Those early months at the Cottages had been a strange time in our friendship. We were quarrelling over all kinds of little things, but at the same time we were confiding in each other more than ever" - Kathy anf Ruth have a very complicated friendships. In one the fights, one is going to share something very important about the other. 
- "I suppose, in general, I never appreciated in those days the sheer effort Ruth was making to move on, to grow up and leave Hailsham behind." - This is an example of how Kathy and Ruth are different. this also shows that Kathy has a problem with letting go. 
- Conflicts - There are unspoken conflicts. No one speaks about being a carer or anything. It is awkward. ]]> 2018-10-22 18:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/295632357 Chapter 12 https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/295637871 - ""Since each of us was copied at some point from a normal person, there must be, for each of us, somewhere out there, a model getting on with his or her life" - When they go out into town, they have to look out for the people that they came from. That is called their possibles. 
- Ruth - She has a possible and goes to find her in Norfolk. 
- Conflicts - There is potential for conflicts in the real world with the clones and the original people. 
- Do the original people know about the clones? Do they even know if their DNA was cloned?]]> 2018-10-22 18:39:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/295637871 Chapter 13 https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/296128688 - "Then Chrissie said in a new voice: "You know, Ruth, we might be coming here in a few years' time to visit you. Working in a nice office. I don't see how anyone could stop us visiting you then."
"That's right," Ruth said quickly. "You can all come and see me."  - Ruth seems to believe this play that she can work in an office one day and not become a donor. 
- Conflicts - The idea of deferrals comes up while in Norfolk. People only from Hailsham can get differed if they fall in love with another person, but it has to be true love. Not everyone gets this option though. 
- Ruth - we learn that she is ruthless, she tells Tommy that he wasn't a real Hailsham student. 
- What makes the people at Hailsham better than the other clones? What makes people in love able to live? 

]]> 2018-10-23 18:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/296128688 Chapter 14 https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/296138030 - "Actually, preoccupied though I was with Ruth's possible, I did begin to enjoy the paintings and the sheer peacefulness of the place. It felt like we'd come a hundred miles from the High Street." - This is Kathy reconnecting with her past life at Hailsham. She goes back to her primitive ways of loving art. 
- Conflict - Ruth does not find her possible. She finds someone that is similar. She burst out and said that all the clones came from the lower class of society. She said that they do not belong in a fancy office or anything nice. 
- Tommy - he reverts back to Kathy after Ruth's blow up.]]> 2018-10-23 18:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/296138030 Chapter 15 https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/296878075 - "Our models, what they were like, that's nothing to do with us, Kath. It's just not worth getting upset about." - Tommy is his own person here. He does not care as to who his possible is. He is his own person here. 
- Conflict- We find out that the art in the gallery is used to reveal a person's soul. This is used for deferrals. If your art shows that you are truly in love then you can get out of being a donor. Tommy does not have any art in the gallery, so he has to come with something like the imaginary animals. 
- Tommy - He is more independent now and seems a lot more grown up. ]]> 2018-10-25 12:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/296878075 Chapter 16 https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/296882554 - "Something in me just gave up" - Kathy gives up with Ruth and Tommy which is not like her at all. She has always stood up for Tommy. 
-Conflict - Ruth gets jealous of Kathy and Tommy because they find the tape together and then they talk about the theory that the art explains your soul and that Tommy shows Kathy his work. Ruth blows up with Tommy  and they get in a fight. 
- Kathy - She gives up and does not stand up for either one of them. 
- What is going on at carer training?
- Why do people not talk about the deferrals, I would think they would be working together to get as many as possible?]]> 2018-10-25 12:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/296882554 Chapter 17 https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/297112477 - "As I have said, it wasn't until a long time afterwards- long after I'd left the cottages- that I realized just how significant our little encounter at the churchyard had been" - The whole "make up" and falling apart happened all because of the conversation at the churchyard.
- Conflicts - All of the conflicts somewhat seem to be resolved even thought they  are not officially wrapped up. Ruth seems to apologize and Kathy seems to accept it. 
- Conflicts - Kathy goes and has filled out the papers to become a carer. She is getting ready to leave the Cottages. 
- Themes - Is friendship more important than life choices? Does a relationship really have that much of an affect on people?]]> 2018-10-25 18:13:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/297112477 Chapter 18 https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/297118129 - "I thought about Hailsham closing, and how it was like someone coming along with a pair of shears and snipping the balloon strings just where they entwined above the man's fist. Once that happened, there'd be no real sense in which those balloons belonged with each other any more. " - Kathy is losing a part of her when Hialsham closes. He is trying to hold on to a part of it. 
- Conflicts - Being a donor is not a great job, people are constantly dying and carers do not make very many friends. This can lead to issues and solitude problems. 
- Conflict - Ruth is not doing well with her first donation. 
- Ruth - She does not seem to trust Kathy until Kathy makes the plans to go to the boat. ]]> 2018-10-25 18:22:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/297118129 Chapter 19 https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/297123951 - "I was like you, Tommy. I was pretty much ready when I became a donor. It felt right. After all, it's what we're supposed to be doing, isn't it?" - Ruth is not a rebel here, she is just here telling the way it is. She is calm and not angry.
- Ruth - She is getting ready to pass away. She becomes a totally different person. She tries to heal the bond she broke between Kathy and Tommy. 
- Kathy - She shows some emotion when she begins to cry over the fact that she might get a deferral and be with Tommy. That is not like her. ]]> 2018-10-25 18:31:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/297123951 Chapter 20 https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/297129177 - There really is not a quote that stood out as super important. 
- Kathy and Tommy realizes that their time is limited. They look through Tommy's art and they try to go and see the Madam. Their lives are ending and they are trying to prevent it from happening as fast as they can.
- Conflict - Kathy and Tommy have an internal conflict because they can not be together for much longer and they could have been together longer if it was not for Ruth. ]]> 2018-10-25 18:40:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/297129177 Chapter 21 https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/297134923 -"I don't know if she recognised us at that point; but without doubt, she saw and decided in a second what we were, because you could see her stiffen—as if a pair of large spiders was set to crawl towards her." - Madame here has a problem with the clones. She is still afraid of them like she was when they were in Hailsham. She does not seem to have changed at all. 
- Conflicts - Miss Emily is seen with Madame, but no one really knows what she is doing there. The situation seems to be very tense. 
- Ruth - She seems to be consent with dying and helping the people around her. She seems to have gotten her affairs in order. ]]> 2018-10-25 18:51:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/297134923 Chapter 22 https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/297406258 - "Whatever else, we at least saw to it that all of you in our care, you grew up in wonderful surroundings. And we saw to it too, after you left us, you were kept away from the worst of those horrors. We were able to do that much for you at least."  - Hailsham was just to give the clones a little bit of life and not be treated just like lab rats which is what they started out as.
- "You wouldn't be who you are today if we'd not protected you" - The kids would not have lived a good life if it was not for Mrs. Emily because she kept them ignorant. 
- Conflict - Tommy has a tantrum again because they find out the deferrals were not real and they were going to die soon. 
- Miss Emily - She is trying to do what is right for the kids even though she was actually afraid of them. 
- Madame - She wants to prove that they do have souls and that is why she had made the gallery. ]]> 2018-10-26 14:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/297406258 Chapter 23 https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/297416117 - "to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be" - This is Kathy at the end of the book. She is making her way to her next job. She had lost everything. She just seems to be ready to go. 
- "I found I was standing before acres of ploughed earth. There was a fence keeping me from stepping into the field, with two lines of barbed wire, and I could see how this fence and the cluster of three or four trees above me were the only things breaking the wind for miles. All along the fence, especially along the lower line of wire, all sorts of rubbish had caught and tangled." - She seems to be looking out into her past, remembering everything that she had lost in her life. 
- Tommy - He has completed 
- Did their lives really mean anything? Were they really worth the teachers at Hailsham's time? ]]> 2018-10-26 14:37:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sgrembecki/dryf7cf5kfi7/wish/297416117