Never Let Me Go - Identity

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  • NLMG - Identity
    • Students create their identities through keeping small trinkets in the collections.
      • At Hailsham, the students develop their own identities through their collections. The items that they accumulate are kept in special wooden chests. In Part Two Kathy describes how students from other centres did not have these.
      • At Hailsham, the students develop their own identities through their collections. The items that they accumulate are kept in special wooden chests
    • Creativity is valued as part of their personal identity.
      • Currency for the sales is obtained through creative ventures, such as artwork, placing importance on their ability to be creative.
      • Tommy's fascination with his own creativity is evidence of the importance artwork plays in the student's own personal identities.
      • Later, Tommy and Kathy both think that their artwork will help them secure a deferral.
      • "... how much you were liked and respected, had to do with how good you were at creating'. (Kathy: Chapter 2)
    • Being a student of Hailsham itself allows a sense of identity
      • Kathy speaks of being from Hailsham with fondness and pride.
      • Kathy often mentions how other students view Hailsham students with envy.
      • Through the novel, Kathy describes a number of rumours of privileges supposedly allowed to former Hailsham students.
    • Most students go through a period of curiosity about where they come from.
      • For Kathy, this is shown by her fascination with pornographicmgazines.
      • For Ruth, and many others, it is finding their possible/
      • Both Kathy and Ruth feel that they're cloned from the less desirable elements of society.
        • " Art students, that's what she thought we were. Do you think she'd have talked to us like that if she knew what we really were." (Ruth: Chapter 14)
    • The outside world largely views the students as expendable.
      • In Part Three, Miss Emily and Madame provide the most information regarding how society views the students.
      • Prior to this, the reader is only given small bits of information through Miss Lucy or Kathy's own musings on the outside world.
      • In general, people view the students with disgust. They do not see them as human; they are medical by-products. Instead they prefer for them to be 'out of sight, out of mind'.
      • A small group of people, Miss Emily, Madame include, were part of a campaign for better living conditions for the clones. This included the creation of schools such as Hailsham.
      • "As you say why would anyone doubt you had a soul? But I have to tell you, my dear, it wasn't something commonly held when we first set out all those years ago." (Miss Emily: Chapter 22)

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