"Never Let Me Go" Annotations by savannah https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw Made with charm en-us 2018-10-09 16:24:46 UTC 2026-02-22 05:08:14 UTC hello@padlet.com Chapter Two swillis5 https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/290853526 important quotes
“Then there were rumors almost everyday of pranks that had been played on him.”

character development
Ruth - Kathy's friend 
She says that Tommy’s problems are because of the way that he acts. She doesn't share the same sympathy for Tommy that Kathy does. 
Conflict
Tommy is not creative enough for the environment he is in and face a lot of ridicule from teachers and other students
-Themes:
         -World of children vs. World of adults 
(seen in the art fairs the adults make the children participate in )

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"Or maybe I'm remembering it wrong."
- could be an indicator of an unreliable narrator.

character development
We see Kathy as a 31 year old and we get a glimpse of what she does. we also see her as a child at Halisham

Conflict 
Tommy vs the other people in his grade
Make note of themes that are in the notes]]> 2018-10-11 14:05:55 UTC https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/291734929 Chapter Four swillis5 https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/293285110 Quotes
-"I won't be a carer any more come the end of the year, and though I've got a lot out of it, I have to admit I'll welcome the chance to rest—to stop and think and remember. I'm sure it's at least partly to do with that, to do with preparing for the change of pace, that I've been getting this urge to order all these old memories."

Character Development
Miss Emily- Smart but not approachable
Ruth- One of the popular girls

Conflicts
Token thing- tokens should be given to the kids whos work is taken by Madame

]]> 2018-10-16 12:40:06 UTC https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/293285110 Chapter Three swillis5 https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/293286358 Quotes-
- "Ruth had been right: Madame was afraid of us. But she was afraid of us in the same way someone might be afraid of spiders"

Character Development
Miss Lucy- she know something that the kids don't. she is liked my most if them.
Madame- she comes and picks the kids art up and does something "important" with it. She is scared by the kids- like someone would be scared of a spider.
Kathy and Tommy- they are getting along better than in the first 2 chapters.

Conflicts
Girls v Madame- the girls finally prove to themselves that Madame is scared of them

Themes
Suspicion of adults
- suspicion of the adults hiding things from the kids
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Quotes
-“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. When it got bad, it was like they cast a shadow over the whole of Hailsham; all you had to do was turn your head or move towards a window and there they’d be, looming in the distance”

Character Development
- 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.  ]]> 2018-10-22 13:20:17 UTC https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/295431429 Chapter Six swillis5 https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/295434891 Quotes
- “I don’t know how it was where you were, but at Hailsham the guardians were really strict about smoking. I’m sure they’d have preferred it if we never found out smoking even existed; but since this wasn’t possible, they made sure to give us some sort of lecture each time any reference to cigarettes came along…” (67).

Conflict
- There is an internal conflict for Kathy when Ruth dies. Kathy lost one of her good friends. 

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“‘The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way. But I’m not… None of you will go to America, none of you will be film stars… Your lives are set out for you. You’ll become adults, then before you’re old, before you’re even middle aged, you’ll start to donate your vital organs. That is what each of you was created to do” (81).

Character Development
Kathy is beginning to become more curious. She is questioning their purposes, Miss Lucy, the Gallery, etc. ]]> 2018-10-22 13:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/295436542 Chapter Eight swillis5 https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/295493854 Quotes
“Looking back now, I can see we were pretty confused about this whole area around sex”

Conflict:
Where can they have sex]]> 2018-10-22 14:58:54 UTC https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/295493854 Chapter Nine swillis5 https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/295495469 "Listen, Tommy, your art is important. And not just because it's evidence. But for your own sake. You'll get a lot from it, just for yourself."

Conflict: Is it important to be artistic? 
Should Kathy help Ruth get back together with Tommy?]]> 2018-10-22 15:01:42 UTC https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/295495469 Chapter Ten swillis5 https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/295496731 "But this was one thing we'd been told over and over: that after Hailsham there'd be no more guardians, so we'd have to look after each other". 

"But you keep leaving Tommy in the lurch. I've watched you, you've done it a few times just this week. You leave him stranded, looking like a spare part. That's not fair. You and Tommy and supposed to be a couple. That means you look out for him" (Ishiguro 209). Kathy told Ruth that she was not treating Tommy right. 




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“I could see none of the veterans had collections. It was only us, it wasn’t normal.” (pg. 130)
“Anothing thing I noticed was the big hush that would descend around certain veterans when they went off on “courses” -which even we knew had to do with becoming carers.” (pg. 132) 

Themes: 
The things you do with time on earth: the kids take pride in their collections but it was much different with the veterans 

Character development: 
Kathy and Ruth spend a lot of time talking with one another. They trust each other with their secrets. 

Conflict:
Ruth vs. Kathy-Ruth brings up something that Kathy had told her in secret and insults her with it. This breaks the trust they had. Kathy says that Ruth is just copying the veterans with the things she does with Tommy. 

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"Nevertheless, we all of us, to varying degrees, believed that when you saw the person you were copied from, you'd get some insight into who you were deep down, and maybe too, you'd see something of what your life held in store," (140).
- character development: 
Ruth sometimes seemed to ; she could be overly hopeful and unrealistic.
- conflict: 
Chrissie and Rodney had a very different viewpoint than Ruth, Kathy, and Tommy.]]> 2018-10-29 13:44:55 UTC https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/298012391 Chapter Thirteen swillis5 https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/298015241 Quotes:
For a moment, as he said this, the fear passed through me
that we‟d misjudged things badly; that for all we knew, veterans
often used talk of possibles just as a pretext to go on trips, and
didn‟t really expect to take it any further." (193)
Characters:
Ruth is further developed to be willing to do whatever is necessary to get in the veterans good favor.
]]> 2018-10-29 13:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/298015241 chapter Fourteen swillis5 https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/298017847 "She said this almost sarcastically, like she was sure the whole thing would turn out to be a huge mistake on his part." (159)
"'We're modelled from trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps.'" (166)]]> 2018-10-29 13:53:40 UTC https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/298017847 Chapter Fifteen swillis5 https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/298019315 Quote:
“"It's just that sometimes, every now and again, I get these really strong feelings when I want to have sex. […] That's why I started thinking, well, it has to come from somewhere. It must be to do with the way I am." I stopped, but when Tommy didn't say anything, I went on”
Character Development:
Tommy: He has starts to make art. We also learn that he really cares for Kathy and always has even though he did not express it all the time.
Conflict:
Tommy finally discusses Kathy looking at the porn magazines. He realizes that there is a deeper reasoning for why she did. He realized that she was looking for her clone and didn’t want to admit it.
Theme:
Nostalgia: They reference back to when Tommy catches Kathy looking at the magazines because he realized why she was doing it.]]> 2018-10-29 13:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/298019315 Chapter Sixteen swillis5 https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/298020244 Quotes:
  • "I remembered him telling me, in Norfolk, that he worried, even as he created them, how they'd protect themselves or be able to reach and fetch things, and looking at them now, I could feel the same sort of concerns" (Ishiugro 311). Kathy remembered that Tommy told her that he had been drawing little animals.
Characters:
  • Kathy: Ruth and Kathy began to get along again. When Ruth criticized Tommy's drawings, Kathy didn't defend him: "I could have challenged Ruth, told her she was twisting things, that even if I might have laughed, it wasn't in the way she was implying. I could even have gone up to Tommy and  hugged him, right there in front of Ruth" (Ishiguro 322). 
Conflicts:
  • Ruth was upset that Kathy and Tommy didn't tell her that they found the tape in Norfolk.
  • Ruth was offended that Tommy and Kathy didn't tell her about Tommy's Gallery Theory.
  • Ruth criticized Tommy's art work and Kathy didn't defend Tommy because she didn't want to hurt Ruth's feelings. Instead, she hurt Tommy's feelings.
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  • "It wasn't long after that I made my decision, and once I'd made it, I never wavered. I just got up one morning and told Keffers I wanted to start my training to become a carer" (Ishiguro 333). Kathy wanted to become a carer and she was ready to move on.
Characters:
  • Kathy: Kathy felt bad about the situation at the churchyard. Kathy and Tommy started growing apart: "Anyway, talking to Tommy wasn't so easy anymore" (Ishiguro 327).
Themes:
  • The limited number of years we have on earth and how we use our time: Kathy was ready to move on and become a carer. She was tired of getting caught up in drama related to Hailsham, the cottages, and Ruth.
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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 our memories."

Characters
- Kathy-living in a dream, not talking to anyone, just doing her job 

Conflict: 
- Should Kathy be Ruth's Carer?]]> 2018-10-29 13:58:06 UTC https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/298020834 Chapter Nineteen swillis5 https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/298021064 Important quotes:
  • "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?"
Character development:
  • Ruth-  She is very fragile and isn't recovering well from her donation.
Conflict:
  • Tommy and Kathy kind of ganged up on Ruth and she just took it.  She is very weak.
Themes:
  • Theme of acceptance- Ruth has accepted the fact that she won't live longer. Kathy and Tommy have accepted the fact that their lives will continue on the same, and that it's too late for deferrals. They don't really have much hope left.
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"that first time, we still had stitches to worry about, and anyway, after all the years knowing each other..."(pg 238)

Characters:
Kathy becomes Tommy's carer

Conflict:
Kathy and Tommy try to defer but it is unsuccessful because they find out that the deferring is fake.

Themes:
what does it mean to be human?
nostaligia]]> 2018-10-29 14:09:30 UTC https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/298028891 Chapter Twenty One swillis5 https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/298031263 Quotes:
"Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?" (pg 254)
"The figure in the wheelchair was frail and contorted, and it was the voice more than anything that helped me recognize her."(pg 255)

Characters:
Miss Emily is with Madame and Tommy and Kathy claim that they are in love
Conflict:
Tommy and Kathy go see Madame to ask to defer, but it does not work
Themes:
cloning
limited # of years we have]]> 2018-10-29 14:12:43 UTC https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/298031263 Chapter Twenty Two swillis5 https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/298031783 Quotes:
"We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all." (260)
"...existed only to supply medical science." (261)
"How dare you claim these children as anything less than fully human?" (262)
"How can you ask a world that has come to regard cancer as curable, how can you ask such a world to put away that cure, to go back to the dark days?" (263)]]> 2018-10-29 14:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/298031783 Chapter 23 swillis5 https://padlet.com/swillis5/vhqp7qhb68sw/wish/298034784 Quotes:
“Then he said: ‘I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how I think it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever’” (282).
Conflicts:
There is a conflict between Tommy and Kathy. Tommy is coming up on his fourth donation and doesn’t want Kathy to be his carer anymore. He doesn’t want her to see him in the end. Kathy gets very upset by this. 

Tommy completed.
Themes:
Did their short lives mean anything? What was the purpose in educating and guiding them? 
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