Analysis of structure and form in Never Let Me Go
- Created by: mimidollins
- Created on: 29-12-20 13:41
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- Structure and Form of NLMG
- Properties of form
- First person narrative
- Kathy's narrative often:
- Avoids dwelling on or acknowledging emotionally painful events
- Misinterprets situations or characters motives
- Is affected by her inability to remember accurately
- What K doesn't know, readers have to guess at, and it is this curiosity, uncertainty and suspense which propels us along
- Avoids describing her true feelings
- Readers feel sense of triumph at feeling more alive than characters
- Uses her memories to gain a better understanding of the past
- AI: It is an honest account from a well trained memory, whose judgments are often more generous to others than to herself
- Kathy's narrative often:
- Imitation of spoken word/ conversational tone
- Readers feel included and makes Kathy more relatable
- Clones offer the same level of humanity as everyone else. Should have same rights e.g. Freedom of Speech
- Sense of friendship between K and reader
- Reader eventually cares for her and is greatly impacted by her fate
- Readers feel included and makes Kathy more relatable
- Direct address
- Readers feel included and makes Kathy more relatable
- Clones offer the same level of humanity as everyone else. Should have same rights e.g. Freedom of Speech
- Sense of friendship between K and reader
- Reader eventually cares for her and is greatly impacted by her fate
- Realism
- Readers find narrative more disturbing
- Reader referred to as a carer who didn't attend H
- "I don't know how it was where you were..."
- Opaque form of storytelling that invites readers in
- Left to work out meaning of "donations" etc for themselves
- "I don't know how it was where you were..."
- Readers feel included and makes Kathy more relatable
- Internal monologue
- Loneliness of Kathy at the end
- Foreshadows deaths of Ruth and Tommy emphasizing the inevitability of fate
- Loneliness of Kathy at the end
- First person narrative
- Kathy's narrative often:
- Avoids dwelling on or acknowledging emotionally painful events
- Misinterprets situations or characters motives
- Is affected by her inability to remember accurately
- What K doesn't know, readers have to guess at, and it is this curiosity, uncertainty and suspense which propels us along
- Avoids describing her true feelings
- Readers feel sense of triumph at feeling more alive than characters
- Uses her memories to gain a better understanding of the past
- AI: It is an honest account from a well trained memory, whose judgments are often more generous to others than to herself
- Properties of structure
- 3 parts
- Hailsham, The Cottages, Carer
- Each setting a vehicle for I to represent significant themes and encompass K's feelings at the time
- H: childhood and ignorance
- The Cottages: Independence and humanity
- Recovery centres: Inevitability and acceptance of death
- Each setting a vehicle for I to represent significant themes and encompass K's feelings at the time
- Each part increases K's freedom whilst constraining her
- Hailsham, The Cottages, Carer
- 3 parts
- What is form and structure?
- Structure: order in which the story is told
- Form: Features of novels, plays and poems e.g. chapters or scenes or stanzas and POV
- Properties of form
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