Death in Never Let Me Go
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- Created on: 09-02-21 21:21
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- Death
- In denial
- Talk of recovery centres and people being well as if there was a future
- "He's just come through his third now and he's completely all right" p223
- Next operation will end in death, meaning this is a manifestation of T's bravado and denial
- "He's just come through his third now and he's completely all right" p223
- Language in relation to death
- Only once does a character mention stark reality
- "If we're just going to give donations, then die, why all those lessons?" p254, K
- Euphemisms for death
- "completion" in NLMG
- Ironic and sad as it is only "completion" in sense that it ends misery and lack of fulfilment
- Last stage in denial that clones are as human or normal as those whose illnesses they'll die to cure
- "passing away", "gone to heaven", "in a better place", "6 feet under"
- "Death" only used twice
- reference to ghost of girl who went outside Hailsham to explore “she’d died” (ch. 5)
- “dead hour” after lessons were finished (ch. 9)
- "completion" in NLMG
- Taboo of death due to the Victorians and Romantics
- Victorian gravestones and 19th C poetry reduce death to "falling asleep"
- Only once does a character mention stark reality
- Talk of recovery centres and people being well as if there was a future
- Language in relation to death
- Only once does a character mention stark reality
- "If we're just going to give donations, then die, why all those lessons?" p254, K
- Euphemisms for death
- "completion" in NLMG
- Ironic and sad as it is only "completion" in sense that it ends misery and lack of fulfilment
- Last stage in denial that clones are as human or normal as those whose illnesses they'll die to cure
- "passing away", "gone to heaven", "in a better place", "6 feet under"
- "Death" only used twice
- reference to ghost of girl who went outside Hailsham to explore “she’d died” (ch. 5)
- “dead hour” after lessons were finished (ch. 9)
- "completion" in NLMG
- Taboo of death due to the Victorians and Romantics
- Victorian gravestones and 19th C poetry reduce death to "falling asleep"
- Only once does a character mention stark reality
- Parable about mortality
- Story that explains or teaches a point
- Aesop's fables e.g. the boy who cried wolf
- I used a loosely contrived science fiction setting to examine human attitudes to death
- Explain unrealistic details (novel not intended to be realistic because its a parable about mortality)
- How is their experience of death similar to ours?
- Death is inevitable, we can't control it
- Children protected from too much knowledge of D
- all are "told and not told"
- Why?
- If they were taught they were living to die, they would question education or living well
- Compassion requires them to be sheltered from true horror
- Turn to positive explanation of death in form of a religion
- Rumours which spread among students e.g. deferrals act as a religion of hope
- T and K denied that hope when Miss E says "your life must now run the course which has been set for it"
- If not, you have to face future of being "all hooked up" amidst the "drugs, and the pain and the exhaustion"
- Rumours which spread among students e.g. deferrals act as a religion of hope
- Language in relation to D
- In denial
- Talk of recovery centres and people being well as if there was a future
- "He's just come through his third now and he's completely all right" p223
- Next operation will end in death, meaning this is a manifestation of T's bravado and denial
- "He's just come through his third now and he's completely all right" p223
- Talk of recovery centres and people being well as if there was a future
- Isolated from others as you near death
- T sends K away when he accepts his death and lack of future
- Represents T's recognition that he has to face D alone
- T sends K away when he accepts his death and lack of future
- K's approach similar to elderly person who has lost many loved ones
- Frightened acceptance of the inevitable that is best not thought about too deeply- no matter how much D you've witnessed
- Understand Miss E's actions and sanitisation of D yet know how horrific it really is
- Manner of death always uncertain and some die prematurely similar to clones completing unexpectedly before the 4th
- How is their experience of death different?
- D awaits clones in specific, calculated way
- Still being conscious during 4th donation
- Bleak novel invites reader to develop a healthier , more open attitude to D or reflect on other attitudes
- Story that explains or teaches a point
- In denial
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