Never Let Me Go Context

Biography:

- Most of Ishiguro's work is based on 'dramatic irony', this means that the reader knows more about the narrator's life than the narrator does 

- It is seen to be used in Never Let Me Go since the reader learns and understands about the novel's alternative universe through Kathy's description

Ishiguro was once a social worker, which is a similar profession to caretakers that are also considered social workers 

Historical:

- When Ishiguro was writing his novel during the beginning of the 21st century, it was the period of fast-moving period of development especially in the biological and medical sciences 

- The novel is based in the 1990s, during the period where the Western World began using cloning. The first 'clone' was Dolly the Sheep. Whilst, in US 'stem-cell research' was becoming popular especially used for medical purposes. The stem cells would be taken from an undeveloped zygote and used to generate cellular materials for the organs of fully-grown adults.  

- The rapid development emerged discussions regarding mankind's moral obligation to cellular life

- However, Never Let Me Go pushes the boundaries as it discusses a common widespread system of organ-farming. The lives of the students revolve around care-taking their organs for 'real' humans, whilst the biological and ethical reasons have emerged in the background. Although, the foreground there is a human story of the clones using love, loss and their maturation. 

- Ishiguro brings the Japanese origins, such as Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the information and knowledge of the bomb was out there in a similar way the information and knowledge about the clones was out there, thus you…