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Book: Never Let Me Go Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Main character: Kathy,Tommy,Ruth Theme: clone human 1.boarding school 2.friendship 3.a resarch 4.painful 5.clone human

"Never Let Me go"was compiled by the Japanese writer Kazuo Ishiguro in 1989. This is a fantastic novel about"clone human",it's also adapted to a movie.The author images that the breakthrough in medical science came in 1952.Doctors could now cure the previously incurable,and life expectancy could pass hundred years.In this story,they create these substitutes for themselves profit,and they sacrifice these people who are also live with blood and emotion.We can see how much selfish the human are, they buy the clone human's organ as if they are not a life anymore but just a thing. They lose their pity for these clone human, they forget they are human with emotion too.

The protagonist,Kathy grown up together with her friends, Tommy and Ruth in a boarding school.This boarding school is far away from the city,it seclude from the world.These kids are created by the gene from the lower middle class people.The teachers in the school are as their guardians. They not only take care of them but also monitor with these kids. These kids know if they cross the gate which is close to the boundary,they will be dead.They know the purpose of their existence is to donate their organ and make people live.Whatever they are beautiful or ugly,smart or stupidor they have their own personality,It's not important anymore. Their life are decided by others,they don't have choice in the world.

When they grow up little by little,they heard of a rumor.Someone believe if you fall in love with a person,then it can lag the time of donating.In the end of the story,they finally understand that just a rumor.Their love doesn't deserve anything.It can't change the truth that they are cloning human.Nobody would take pity on them,they wouldn't voice for them.Their value are just from the healthy organ.

If these clone human live without emotion,and then I could understand they are just a robot.However,they have their own personality and appearance,they live with emotion.How can people be so cruel? If someone sacrifices her or his life to save me,I would rather die than live in the world.The person would die because of me,then I want to ask what's the meaning we living in the world?If I live for someone else,then I would rather die in the beginning of my life than live without a meaningless life.