The first chapter of the dystopian science fiction novel “Never Let Me Go” from 2005 is written by Kazuo Ishiguro and takes place in the late 1990s in London. The Story is written from the point of view of Katy H from Hailsham the main character.

At first, the 31-year-old carer Katy mentions her donors and that she has to be a carer for another eight months so that she will be a carer for twelve years in total. She continues with stories from her career as a carer and talks about the donors she can remember and she has taken care of them. For example, she tells about the donor Ruth, which was also a student in Hailsham with her. Furthermore, she talks about her memories about her childhood to another donor so that he can endure his pains. Next, while she is driving around the country she sees a sports pavilion and tells the reader one memory in which her friend group is looking down to the North Playing Field where some boys are playing football while making fun of Tommy. Even though Tommy is the best player he is selected at last. Tommy couldn’t handle the situation and gets a tantrum. After the boys went away and the time is slowly running out the girls group with Katy went to the main building, Katy reports. Katy continues her story of that memory that she went to Tommy to stop him because he got mud on his new shirt. The chapter and the memory from Katy ends with Tommy hitting her by accident.

All in all the reader gets to know some background information about Katy’s life and then she starts with a story about her childhood where we hear from Tommy and Ruth the first time and also get to know the character constellation.

Katy from dystopian science fiction novel “Never Let Me Go” from 2005 by Kazuo Ishiguro continues her narrative about her Childhood in Hailsham in Chapter two.

In this city, they get medication every week and while waiting Tommy apologizes to Katy. The next days Katy informs her about the incidents that happen to Tommy and the pranks that happen almost daily. As Katy points out that the pranks to Tommy are unfair Katy agrees but brings up that he didn’t had something for the Spring Exchange. The narrator interrupts her story and explains that there are four Exchanges in a year and that everyone prepares stuff like paintings, drawings or poetry for it to sell their things to the other students of your year. Afterwards, she tells from conservation between Ruth and her which they had in Ruth’s recovery room after her first donation in which they talked about memories from the Exchanges. Then the narrator continues her story about Tommy. She says that everything has started in an art class with Miss Geraldine. Furthermore she describes that Tommy painted a childish elephant as a joke and that would be no problem if the guardian wouldn’t have tried to find something good in the picture and wouldn’t have pointed it out. Katy continues that the tantrums has made it more worse but as tommy started to ignore the pranks they lost interest. During waiting in the lunch queue Katy congratulates Tommy to his success of stopping the bullying. Because the answer how he could stop it doesn’t convince Katy walks away but in the end when Tommy says to her that he would tell it to her after lunch she gets curious.

To put it in a nutshell Katy explains the Exchanges and talks about how the bullying of Tommy started and how it ended.

The third chapter of dystopian science fiction novel “Never Let Me Go” from 2005 by Kazuo Ishiguro is about Tommy’s talk with Miss Lucy, the gallery and also about Madame which is scared of students.

At first, Kathy meets Tommy after lunch at a lake and after some chatting, he describes the conservation he had with Miss Lucy. In the beginning, he should tell her the whole story of what had happened to him but she interrupted him and said that he lack of creativity isn’t his fault and no one should punish him for that. Furthermore, Tommy continues that it helped him with his tantrums because whehe was shortly before one he could see her walking about and that helped to calm down. Also Tommy thinks that Miss Lucy has the opinion that the studentaren’t told enough about what will happen to them. Then Katy tells him that she thinks there is a connection between what Tommy said for example Madame. women called Madame comes up to four times a year to collect art which goes to the Gallery, at least that are telling the guardians to the students. The student don’t know when she is coming but they can guess because the guardians are searching through all art pieces and bring the best ones to billiards roomKaty goes on and tells the reader the story where Ruth, said that she thinks Madame is scared of the students and how they proved it. After that Katy says they were a little bit shocked that she comes to them if she doesn’t like them.

After the third chapter comes the fourth which is also part of science fiction Novel “Never Let Me Go” from 2005 by Kazuo Ishiguro. It informs the reader about the Sales and the beginning of the friendship between Ruth and Kathy.

Frist in the token controversy in Junior 4 Roy, a student from the year above, asks the very austere reserved Miss Emily, if they could get tokens for their art, which get taken to the Gallery. In the end the guardians agreed that the students would get some tokens but not so much because the fact that their art piece goes to the Gallery is the most distinguished honour. Normally the assembly every morning is very short but if Miss Emily has to talk it takes round about 20 to 30 minutes. In contrast to her lessons where she is very precise, her speeches are hard to understand. The Sales which are every month, are an exciting event for junior students but usually they only buy things replace old ore broken stuff. Then the Kathy tells about the beginning of her friendship with Ruth, where Ruth allows her to play with her invisible horses. She is very determinative. From then on they ‘protect’ Miss Geradline, because Ruth says someone wants to harm her and she needs their protection.

All in all it let you understand the world from Kathy a bit more by giving background details.

The dystopian science fiction Novel “Never Let Me Go” from 2005 is written by Kazuo Ishiguro and takes place in the late 1990s in London. The Story is written from the point of view of Katy H from Hailsham the main character.

As Kathy joins the group, the other already knew the ‘secret guard’ game. In Hailsman horror stories about the outside like the woods or behind the fence exist. Ruth hints that she can play chess by commentating other chess player’s decisions until Katy finds out that Ruth lied by buying a chess board and asking her how to play. Katy is disappointed. Moreover Ruth keeps the secret guard play going through say things in a special voice so that everyone knows she means something related to Miss Geradline. That nerves Kathy, so she pretended that she found Ruth’s name on the Sales register at which every purchase is logged, and confronts her, that she didn’t get her special pencil case as a gift for protecting. Ruth get sad and Kathy immediately show compassion and asks herself, if not everybody wants a little bit attention from his or her favourite guardian.

On the 15 pages from chapter six from “Never Let Me Go” published 2005 by Kazuo Ishiguro Kathy proceeds her story about Ruth being nice and a special cassette. Let’s go into detail.

At first, the first-person-narrator hints her best friend that she won’t leave the lie. Therefore Ruth is especially friendly the next days. Before the narration is continued the popular Norfolk joke is explained. In geographic class Miss Emily shows many pictures of the surrounding of Hailsham but she hasn’t shown any photograph of Norfolk as it wouldn’t exist so it is referred as “a lost corner”. Also the guardians are warning before the consequences of smoking and that it is very important to stay healthy. Miss Lucy says after she was asked that she’d been smoking for a short period but stopped. She underlines that Hailsham students are special. Then finally Kathy talks about the third track on the cassette which is called “Never let me go” from the album “Songs After Dark” by Judy Bridgewater (1956). She describes it as different in comparison to the other music which is listen to at Hailsham. Moreover she say that she hasn’t had many opportunities to listen the song because there are only a few devices and they are at positions where other students hang out. Furthermore, she imagines that the singer can’t have a baby and holds one while singing, “oh baby never let me go”. One time she plays this situation as she catches sight of Miss Madame who is standing in the door frame and cries. As she reports it to Tommy his response is that she was sad for her, because all Hailsham students aren’t able to have children. No one is really bothered that they can have sex without worrying about babies. Two months later the cassette gets lost and Kathy is upset. As a replacement and thanking her for keeping the secret Ruth, who doesn’t care much about music, gifts her another tape, not knowing that the song is important to her not any music. But because Ruth really thought about it Kathy likes the new cassette also a lot but doesn’t listen to it much.

In conclusion, the chapter ends with a happy Kathy.

Kathy discusses the last years at Hailsham in Chapter seven of the dystopian science fiction novel “Never Let Me Go” from 2005 by Kazuo Ishiguro.

By the age of 15 at some time, when they are in the sports pavilion, Miss Lucy hears conservation between two boys Peter J. and Gordon talking about becoming an actor. Furthermore, she interrupts them, because she states the opinion the students aren’t being told and not told. In conclusion and that she can’t be quiet anymore she tells them about their set outlive as donors of vital organs. Kathy agrees with her that they are told and not. As an example, she instances the sex talk by Miss Emily in which they are told they should avoid diseases, can’t have babies, that sex affects emotions and out of Hailsham sex has a much bigger significance. In this move, they should be told about their later life. Later on, in Kathy’s narration, she elucidates how Tommy gets fouled by Christopher. For all students, health is extremely important and as Tommy gets a gash on his elbow Christopher convinces him with the help of other students agreeing that it can unzip. In the end, the unzipping evolves to a running joke that no one connects with Tommy anymore.

To put it in a nutshell Miss Lucy confirms Kathy’s feeling about not being told enough and Tommy gets fouled.

“Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro from 2005 deals in the eighth chapter with the topic of sexuality.

At first the first-person-narrator hears a hissing sound while being alone in a corridor and follows it to Room 22 where she finds Miss Lucy crossing out handwritten text with a black marker which makes the sound. She doesn’t know how to handle the situation and leaves. Tommy and Ruth are a couple and are arguing the last six months. Kathy feels like on the one hand, the guardian encourages the students to have sex but not in school or at their dorm and the fields aren’t an option either so they have no opportunities. As an anecdote, Kathy narrates that gay sex is called ‘umbrella sex’ and being gay is referred to be an umbrella. Finally, Kathy chooses Harry C. to have sex with and gives him signals but in the end she doesn’t.

You could some the chapter up as a detailed look about sex.

The dystopian science fiction novel “Never Let Me Go” from 2005 is written by Kazuo Ishiguro and takes place in the late 1990s in London. The Story is written from the point of view of Kathy H from Hailsham the main character.

The last chapter of part one begins with Cynthia calling Kathy Ruth’s ‘natural successor’ which holds her back from having sex with Harry C. Then Ruth request Kathy to talk with Tommy to help her to together with him again. After she asks her if she means it serious she talks to Tommy. After some days as Kathy catches him and starts to talk to him, he interrupts her and tells her about his talk with Miss Lucy who said, that she had made a mistake by telling him not to worry about not being creative and that it’s not too late and he should make up the lost time. Therefore he says he has to think carefully about every step and can’t rush into it with Ruth. Later on Miss Lucy lefts Hailsham and at that evening Tommy and Ruth get back together that evening

An ending is needed.

The synopsis “The creation of ‘Never Let Me Go’” (“Die Entstehung von ‘Never Let Me Go’”) from 4 March 2019 based on an article by theguardian.com concentrates on the process, development and idea gathering for Kazuo Ishiguro’s dystopian novel.

In the beginning, he starts with text fragments about a group of students in an unusual environment of old barn cottages that all share one fate without naming it while writing totally different books.

Then one year later, as he listens to a radio show about the biological technological achievements, although he isn't really interested in, the ideas slowly compose to a story.

Because the author doesn’t want to write a futuristic novel, which could be understood as an interpretation of the future, he lets his story take place in the 70s to 80s in the beautiful remote landscapes and som connected cities from England.

In addition, he says he didn’t go to boarding school but orientates his story on narrations because the first part takes place there. Furthermore, he describes that thinking like a teenager isn’t so difficult for him. He uses the boarding school as a metaphor for the separation from children to the world of adults because they leave out information to them.

Moreover, a big factor is the use of clones as central characters. They let him ask the oldest questions about the human existence, the soul and dedication of the human species in a modern way.

Students

The Students from Hailsham are already seniors from 13 up to 16 when they leave. In their dorm they all have their own collection chest. Tommy a friend from Kathy and a students is easily to upset to that he gets many tantrums.

Guardians

The guardians teach and aren’t allowed to a favour student. Miss Geraldine is a soft spoken, gentle guardian who’s everyone’s favourite and teaches art class. Miss Emily, the head guardian, is older than all the others and respected for her fair decisions. She teaches sex education. Miss Lucy, is appreciate for her brisk style by the Seniors.

Activities

The students get almost medication every week. In lectures about smoking the guardians repeat how dangerous it is and how important it is to stay healthy. Generally the student pretend to have more sex than they really have and like in every school rumours exit and are being spread.

Housing and grounds

It’s protected with a fence in a smooth hollow with fields around and a long road to the gate. The living space of the guardians are in the orangery. There’s a path around all buildings and a rose at the top of the hill behind the Hailsham House. In every junior dorm 15 students have to sleep.

The main protagonist and first-person narrator from “Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro published in 2006 is Kathy H. This characterization focusses on her character traits in part two where she lives in the Cottages.

In time where they stay at the Cottages Kathy is 16 up to 18 until she applies for her training as a carer. Her best friends are Tommy and Ruth, also from Hailsham. She sleeps with Hughie, Lenny and some other at one-nighters. Sometimes Kathy has the urge to have sex immediately. She chose Victorian novels for her essay but didn’t take the essays to serious. In Addition Kathy states her opinion, that she might be a clone from a prostitute.

At first Kathy show her skill of observing and seeing details. For example, she notices that the veterans adapted gestures from allowed television shows and Ruth does this too or she gets aware that there is a kind of taboo of talking about veterans who left. Another detail she sees is that Chrissie is beautiful when she stands straight, which Chrissie doesn’t notice. Also, she is an intelligent character which uses her free-time to educate herself with books like “Daniel Deronda”. Moreover, she’s good at taking care of others. A good example is that she gets aware of Tommy’s feelings when Ruth leaves him behind and he doesn’t know how to behave which makes him uncomfortable ore when she doesn’t trust Chrissie and Rodney at first, she tries to be protective but as she knows them better she changes her mind which proves her intelligence. She argues with Ruth and is vulnerable but also tries to understand Ruth’s point of view which makes her empathically. Another proof would be that she plays down Tommy’s theory about the Gallery because he hasn’t anything in it. In Contrast to Ruth, Kathy keeps her collection chest. She’s loyal to her close friends. You notice this character trait when she knows that Ruth is lying but keeps the secret or when she confronts her to help Tommy out of his uncomfortable situation.

All in all, you see Kathy is a rather complex character with many positive character traits.

Add trustful, curious and at least three quotations.

Part One

Chapter 1

• Main character Kathy is 31 years old who has to be a carer for twelve years in total.
• Together with Tommy, Ruth and many other clones she lives in Hailsham and goes to boarding school
• At the North Playing Field some boys are making fun of Tommy and he gets a tantrum. Kathy tries to stop him because his shirt gets muddy. By accident he hits her

Chapter 2

• Every week the students get medication
• Every season an Exchange happens at which prepared paintings, drawings, poetry and other self-made stuff is sold.
• The bullying has started with a childish elephant painting by Tommy in art class which Miss Geraldine tried to point out good things in front of the class.

Chapter 3

• Tommy tells Kathy about the talk between him and Miss Lucy, who said that his lack of creativity isn’t his fault. She also said, that the students aren’t told enough.
• Madame comes up to four times a year to collect the art which goes to the Gallery
• The girls find out, that Madame is scared of them

Chapter 4

• Roy asks Miss Emily a very austere reserved guardian, if they would get tokens for things that get taken to the gallery. The students are getting some but not so much because it is the ‘most distinguished honour’ (p.48)
• Every morning is a short assembly, but if Miss Emily had to talk it takes round about 20 to 30 minutes. She doesn’t need to raise her voice to be very strict
• Every month a white van is coming, where the students can buy clothes and other “goodies” for tokens
• The friendship between Ruth and Kathy has started in the time where you play in the sandpit and they played with invisible horses. Ruth was always very determinative.
• From then on they ‘protected’ Miss Geraldine, because Ruth said she needs protection.

Chapter 5

• The group already knew
• Horror stories about the outside like the woods or behind the fence
• Ruth is a liar. She pretended to be able to play chest but Kathy found out as she bought a board and figures.
• Ruth keeps the “secret guard” play going e.g. with a special pencil case which she hinted that she got it from Miss Geraldine. Kathy says to Ruth that she got a look at the Sales-list at which every transaction is written. Kathy hates this hinting but keeps the secret.
• Kathy shows compassion and asks herself, if not everybody wants a little bit attention from your favourite guardian.

Chapter 6

• Kathy hints Ruth that she won’t leave the lie. Therefore Ruth is the next days especially friendly
• The Norfolk joke: Miss Emily shows in the lessons pictures of their surroundings but she hasn’t a photograph of Norfolk, also called “a lost corner” (p. 74)
• The guardians are warning before the consequences of smoking and that it is very important to be healthy.
• Miss Lucy repeats that they are special students
• Album “Songs After Dark” by Judy Bridgewater (1956)
• Different from the other songs
• Track 3 “Never let me go”
• Hadn’t much opportunities to listen
• Kathy imagines that the singer can’t have a baby and holds it while singing, “oh baby never let me go”
• One time she plays this situation as she catches a sight of Miss Madame who is standing in the door frame and cries
• As she tells Tommy his response is that she was said for her, because all Hailsham students aren’t able to have children. No one is really bothered that they can have sex without worrying about babies.
• Two months later the cassette got lost and Kathy is upset. As a replacement and thanking for keeping the secret Ruth who doesn’t care much about music, gifts her another tape not knowing that the song is important to her not any music. But because Ruth really thought about it Kathy likes the new cassette also a lot.

Chapter 7

• Talks about the time between 13 to 16 when they leave
• At 15 in the sports pavilion
• Miss Lucy hears a conservation and says that she can’t be quit anymore
• The students’ lives are set out. They have to donate their vital organs
• They are told and not told
• Sex talk
• They should avoid diseases, can’t have babies, sex affects emotions, out there sex means much more
• Tommy has a gash on his elbow and was told from Christopher that it can unzip. Because health is extremely important he believes that foul
• It evolved to the unzipping running joke

Chapter 8

• Kathy hears a sound and follows him to Room 22 where she finds Miss Lucy crossing out hand written text with a black marker which has made the sound.
• Tommy and Ruth were a couple and had six months an argument
• One the one hand the guardians want them to have sex, but not in school or at their dorm so they had no opportunities.
• Gay sex is called ‘umbrella sex’ and to be gay is called to be an umbrella
• Kathy chooses Harry C. to have sex with him but in the end she doesn’t have sex with him.

Chapter 9

• There is a rumour by Cynthia E. that Kathy is Ruth’s ‘natural successor’ this holds her back from having sex with Harry
• Ruth requests from Kathy to talk with Tommy to help her to get with him together again
• After she asks her if she means it serious she talks to Tommy.
• He interrupts her and tells her about his talk with Miss Lucy who said, that she had made a mistake by telling him not to worry about not being creative and that it’s not too late and he should making up the lost time.
• Tommy says that he has to think carefully about every step and can’t rush into it with Ruth.
• Miss Lucy lefts Hailsham
• Tommy and Ruth get back together that evening

Part Two

Chapter 10

• essay topic: Victorian novels
• Didn’t think much about it
• eight move to the Cottages in summer
• Are the remains of a farm
• Farmhouse (heart), barns, outhouses, stables to live in, black barn
• Keffers
• Grumpy, old guy
• Comes 2-3 times a week
• Doesn’t talk much
• Implied they don’t do enough but doesn’t says what they should do
• ‘veterans’, students that were already there
• It’s always cold there due to not enough heat sources
• Cynthia to Dorset; Harry to Wales
• Is two years at the Cottages
• Ruth makes a big deal about their relationship e.g. snogging in public
• Veteran couples copy behaviour from television
• She adjusts their behaviour and copies goodbye gesture which is slapping your partner’s arm near the elbow with the back of your knuckles
• Near autumn:
• Ended by winter
• Susie and Greg (oldest students) are ‘in charge’ of the place
• TV at Hailsham and Cottages is restricted
• Idea that more books you have read, more settling in you were
• They imply by nodding that they read a book
• Ruth takes it to far
• Kathy confronts her about the gesture
• Chrissie and Rodney are veterans

Chapter 11

• Explains why Kathy got bothered by Ruth in the argument about the gesture
• At the evening Kathy and Ruth exchange deepest feelings
• In dispute Ruth crosses the line by referring about her and sex that she told her in trust
• Sex is different at the Cottages, no gossip
• Kathy has her first one-nighters
• Tells her about her urge sometimes to really want sex
• Ruth thinks it’s weird
• The “two” Ruth’s mixed, the one who tries to impress the veterans and ignores her and Tommy and the other one Kathy could talk to at the evening ant trusts
• Ruth threw her collection chest away and regrets it now
• The things in the collection chests aren’t very worthy
• At autumn notices things she missed
• Unspoken rule not to mention trips you have made
• Taboo: mentioning students who left, only if it was necessary
• Tree stump outside the Black Barn called ‘Dave’s stump’
• Porn magazines referred as a left-over from ‘Steve’s collection’
• Keffers don’t like them. He takes them to his van but forgets they there
• Kathy takes them inside the boiler
• She goes through it pretty quickly
• Tommy appears and recognizes that she doesn’t watches them for fun but she isn’t prepared to tell him why

Chapter 12

• Want to find her possible
• Rodney saw Ruth’s possible Model in an open-plan office
• Chrissie
• tall, beautiful
• seems very friendly and welcoming
• something odd about her mentioning that they come from Hailsham
• Rodney is her boyfriend
• Sceptical about the report of Ruth’s possible
• Instinct not to trust Chrissie
• Description to close to Ruth’s ‘dream future’
• They fancy about their dream future
• Ruth took it once again further than anybody
• Her dream future in an open-plan office, she describes it copying from an advertisement magazine Kathy and Ruth saw
• Veterans awestruck they being from Hailsham
• Ruth is not denied certain things and implying others

Chapter 13

• Few months after the magazines Chrissie, Rodney, Kathy and Tommy visit Norfolk (lost corner)
• Rodney borrows a Rover car and has a driver licence
• During the ride, Ruth leans forward to Chrissie and Rodney
• Due to that Tommy and Ruth can’t talk to each other
• After an hour: break
• Kathy suggest to Ruth to change seats so Kathy could talk with Tommy but she gets outrages
• In the second half Ruth keeps silent, not bending forward
• Eat in a little café
• Martin a carer lives in Norfolk, friend of Rodney
• They aren’t allowed to visit carers
• Chrissie tells the rumour about a girl in the clothes shop from Hailsham and that they can get under special circumstances their donation deferred for 3-4 years
• She continues that if you are really in love with someone and can show it they at Hailsham organise that
• Ruth lies about it, that it exists and heard about it at Hailsham
• Kathy pays and they leave the café

Chapter 14

• After shopping at Woolworth they go to the office lead by Rodney
• They spot a woman in blue outfit in the office through a big window
• As they were spotted they leave and wait for time to shift to watch again
• But they don’t need to. The woman leaves the office with a cream-coloured overcoat
• They follow her with distance in a small street to “The Portway Studios” where she talks to a silver hair woman and the other pretend to watch the paintings.
• They all noticed by listening that she isn’t Ruth’s possible
• The woman leaves
• The silver hair woman asks them if they are art students then they leave too
• Ruth is upset
• Ruth says they are modelled after “trash” (junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps)
• Rodney suggests to visit Martin
• Kathy and Tommy don’t follow them

Chapter 15

• Tommy wants to find Kathy’s old tape by Judy Bridgewater
• He thought many time about giving it her
• Together they search in second hand shops until they find it
• They are having fun
• Tommy buys her it
• She’s happy about having it again and the memories it connects
• Tommy talks about his theory that the gallery is for these deferrals
• Because they reveal what you were like inside. They reveal your soul
• Kathy plays down his theory because he has no art in the gallery
• They go back to the car
• Tommy reveals he paints imaginary tiny animals
• Tommy finds out that Kathy is looking through the porn magazines to find her possible. That would explain her urge to want sex
• At the drive back Ruth was friendly that’s her type of showing she was wrong

Chapter 16

• Spring: veterans leave to start their training
• Barn called goosehouse
• Over two months after Norfolk trip
• Tommy shows her his drawings and she really likes them she thinks they are good for the gallery
• Summer: one year from when they first arrived
• Ruth pretends to forget things from Hailsham
• Relationship with Lenny but he suddenly starts his training
• Kathy talks about him with Ruth
• She finds the cassette without discussing it much to Kathy’s surprise
• Then eventually they laugh about Tommy’s animals and she doesn’t say she likes them
• Churchyard: Kathy goes to Ruth and Tommy on the bench on the willow
• Ruth says that she and Kathy laughed about the animals and Kathy wishes she would have said something. She only reacts with walking away

Chapter 17

• Conservation with Ruth at the old bus shelter
• Ruth says she knows how daft it was and that she apologized and that Kathy is right
• Also she tells her that Tommy really likes her
• But he doesn’t sees her as an girlfriend because she was together with “this person and that”
• As they were juniors James B. should fetch cake to the pond where they had a picnic with Miss Geraldine
• Kathy applied by Keffers for being a carerShe keeps a distance to Ruth and Tommy at the last days at the Cottages

Part Three

Chapter 18

• Kathy is a good donor
• Other can’t handle the death of their patient, even when they don’t do anything wrong
• Many hours alone, driving from centre to centre, broken sleep
• Stressful, nerve-racking job, many are relieved when they can donor
• Has four bendable desk-lamps at home
• Laura, close friend, can’t handle donations as a carer very well
• Speaks to her 20 minutes in her car
• Ruth was determined at the Cottages
• Rumour: Ruth had a really bad first donation
• Laura suggest that Kathy could get Ruth’s carer
• Ruth is a difficult donor for cares
• Hailsham closed
• Once walked behind a clown with helium balloons with ears and faces
• Ruth is in a modern recovery centre in Dover
• After the first meeting with Ruth, as Kathy becomes her carer something grows between them
• Then after an incident in which Kathy stood in Ruth’s room while she was coming out of the bath showering, the atmosphere got even worse. They realise that Ruth doesn’t trust her
• Kathy wants to stop being her carer, but the situation changes because of the boat
• Plan to visit a boat that stranded in the marshes and pick up Tommy who’s centre lies on the way
• At the Cottages Ruth and Tommy drifted apart
• Tommy is in Kingsfield

Chapter 19

• Kingsfield is not a very beautiful place it falls way short of a place like Ruth’s centre
• The old pool now called “the Square” is the place where they drive in when they first arrive
• The encounter between Ruth and Tommy is a bit cold/serious
• During the drive they talk and one time Kathy interrupts Ruth’s anecdotes and tommy laughs because he wanted to interrupt her himself
• Ruth doesn’t strikes back, that wouldn’t happen in further times
• She parks the car
• They walk through the woods while Ruth’s breath is coming less and less easy.
• They stop at a rusty fence with barbed wire, Ruth don’t want to get trough
• Kathy and Tommy hold it up, it is more a confidence thing
• They reach their goal and see the sky blue painted boat in the marsh
• Chrissie completed after her second donation, says Ruth
• Rodney is in the clinic up in North Wales
• Tommy wasn’t a good carer, lousy carer
• Ruth was 5 years a carer
• They go back while Tommy and Ruth are comparing their centres
• They see a huge advertisement and stop the car
• They talk about the open-plan office, then Kathy asks if she wonders what might have happened if she had tried and mentions Madame
• Ruth apologises
• Lied about the urge to have sex and had it with at least with three others while being together with Tommy
• For keeping Tommy and Kathy apart
• Suggests they have to ask for deferral
• Now Tommy made two donations
• Ruth gives Tommy a note with Madame’s address
• Brings Tommy back and drives to Dover
• not much talking
• the bad atmosphere evaporated
• Ruth suggests that Kathy can become Tommy’s carer
• After Ruth’s second donation she dies

Chapter 20

• Almost after one year after the trip and his third donation Kathy becomes Tommy’s carer
• L-shaped room
• Tommy and She start having sex by sliding her hand down to his stuff after reading
• He draws these small animals at his desk
• One day he asks her for her honest opinion. His sign to put everything behind what happened at the cottages and on the other hand it shows he prepares for the talk to Madame about the deferrals
• Kathy reports to him that she saw Madame in Littlehampton and Ruth was right.
• Furthermore she tells him how she observed her house and then saw her.
• They decide to take 15, 20 or more of his new drawings with them

Chapter 21

• Due to some unluckiness about doing test they set of to Littlehampton towards the end of the afternoon
• They arrive just before 6 o’clock
• Buy food for Tommy
• Follow Madame to her house
• Scared that Tommy could say wrong things, says “excuse me”
• Introduces them
• Asks them to come inside
• They sit in armchairs
• They explain their theory about the gallery and the deferrals
• Tells her Tommy hadn’t art for the gallery
• There are tears in Madame’s eyes she says “poor creatures”
• Madame’s name is Marie Claude
• Miss Emily roles out of the dark behind them in a wheelchair

Chapter 22

• Deferrals are a rumour
• Hailsham was a kind of experiment to prove that the clones have souls too
• Morningdale scandal
• Scientist James Morningdale
• in a remote part of Scotland
• wanted to make children with enhanced characteristics
• went far beyond legal boundaries
• climate changed and they got fewer and fewer supporters and sponsors
• Lucy Wainright thought the students should have been made more aware they were for
• Miss Emily had to fight back her dread of the students almost every day
• The men packed stuff and were shouted by Marie Claude
• Tommy and Kathy thanked for talking to them and asked Madame if she could say goodbye to Miss Emily who was in the vehicle
• Then they talk about the moment in the dorm with the song “Never Let Me Go”
• Madame wasn’t sad that she couldn’t have a baby
• She saw a girl holding an old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain and that she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.
• On the way back home they stop and Tommy gets out the car.
• He screams and Kathy walks toward the sound in the dark
• Then she holds him and they drive back

Chapter 23

• Draws the animals
• Identifies more with the other donors
• Tommy’s fourth donation
• Special respect for a fourth donators
• Tommy wants to change his carer, they don’t fight and he gets one
• Tells he imagined to splash trough water after he shot a goal at Hailsham
• She lost Ruth, Tommy and Hailsham but not her memories
• Were in Norfolk and thought about Tommy after she lost him.

The short informatic text "How cloning works" from June 2018 is written by Cornelia Kaminski and deals with the history of cloning, the future potential and explains it.

Cloning plants is used for hundreds of years but not until July 1996 cloning animals wasn't possible. After the 277th attempt, the scientists succeeded with cloning and named the Scottish sheep Dolly, which died due to arthritis, cancer and premature ageing in the earlies of 2002.

In the process of cloning, first, an unfertilized egg is needed and existing DNA material is removed to transfer DNA from the to be cloned suspect. Next, the cell dividing process is started by stimulating with electricity. Then the resulting embryo is transplanted into a surrogate mother which later gives birth to the clone.

Today American cloning companies replicate very productive animals.

One of the big flaws of cloning is the faster ageing process of clones, that higher mortality rate and the accompanying abnormalities.

From then on the scientists continued cloning animals and 2018 Chinese scientists accomplished cloning 2 primates out of 3 hundred which are relatives to us, humans. Therefore the ethical question of cloning humans has risen. the creator of Dolly, Jan Wilmet, answers it in 2001 by saying that not until the issues of nuclear cloning are resolved, it would be dangerous and irresponsible because it would lead to abnormal children and adults which are troubling outcomes. But later in 2004, he applied for a licence for human cloning probably to research more for the great benefits of cloning where the shortage of organs for transplantation could be resolved by growing organs from stem cells.

Until this future, scientists need to overcome the high risk of the transferred cells to become tumours due to their fas cell grow / multiply.

Overall it's a complex topic which needs more research and ethical arguments rounds that comes to a conclusion for our society.

• In the shed Kathy looks through the porn magazine very quickly and knows that Tommy is watching her.
• Steve is not mentioned
• While driving to Norfolk there is no argument between Kathy and Ruth
• In Norfolk at the café Ruth doesn’t lie
• The office with the eventual possible is no open office rather a trip booking shop
• The group don’t follow her but notice immediately that she isn’t Ruth’s possible
• Then they don’t visit the carer Martin nor search for a new Cassette for Kathy because she didn’t lost it
• Ruth thinks she understands why Ruth looks through the porn magazines
• Later on Kathy doesn’t meet Laura in her van
• Therefore she sees Ruth’s picture on a computer screen in a centre
• The fence is different: there’s a door
• The boat isn’t in the marsh and Tommy walks to it
• Tommy draws not until he is in Kingsfield
• When Tommy and Kathy visit Madame’s house, she works in the garden
• No car is coming to the house to pick up Miss Emily
• Tommy is angry by Emily and Madame at home
• Tommy screams on the road not in the mud
• Tommy understands in the centre why she is looking through steve’s magazines
• Kathy stays Tommy’s donor until he dies