What does Miss Lucy mean by told and not told? 1. ‘you've been told and not told' – this suggests
the subject has always been known, but they have not had it explained to them in full detail
. It also suggests the students do not fully understand what will happen. 2.
What does Miss Lucy represent in Never Let Me Go?
Miss Lucy. Miss Lucy is
a guardian at Hailsham school
. Unlike the other guardians, she feels the students should not be protected from their future lives but should be told in a straightforward manner what the future has in store for them.
What does Miss Lucy say to Tommy?
What does Miss Lucy tell the students?
What does Miss Lucy not want the children?
What was Miss Lucy doing in Room 22?
When she finds Miss Lucy in Room 22, at first Kathy thinks that Miss Lucy is writing frantically on really dark paper. But then Kathy realizes that Miss Lucy is actually
using a pen to deliberately black out the handwriting on light paper
.
What happened in chapter 4 of Never Let Me Go?
Summary: Chapter 4
As Kathy prepares to stop being a carer, she feels an increasing urge to make sense of her memories
. She believes that her memories of Hailsham will help to clarify what happened between her, Tommy, and Ruth after they left school. Kathy recalls the “tokens controversy” caused by Madame's visits.
Why does Madame cry when she sees Kathy dancing?
Kathy wonders aloud if Madame understood the story that she imagined for the song “Never Let Me Go.” Madame says actually cried because
she was thinking about the approach of a harsh new world
. In Kathy, she saw a little girl holding onto the old world and pleading for it never to let her go.
Why is Madame scared in Never Let Me Go?
She is clearly
scared of Hailsham students
from the start of the novel. And when Kathy and Tommy meet Madame she is very cynical and assumes that they are ungrateful. Plus, she has never given these clones for whom she fights a chance to fight for themselves.
How does Madame react when she sees Kathy dancing and singing along to her favorite song?
One day, Kathy is singing along to the song and swaying her pillow like a baby. When the song ends, she sees Madame watching her from the hallway.
Madame is crying, and leaves abruptly
. Kathy does not discuss the incident at first.
What happens in chapter 2 of Never Let Me Go?
What is the purpose of the essay assignment the students are given after leaving Hailsham?
What is a Hailsham student?
Hailsham is, as the novel explicitly tells us, a political intervention: it aims to humanize the ”students” (
the preferred term for the clones
) by proving to the human world that they have souls.
What happened at the end of Never Let Me Go?
The author ends this story of the novel with a sad story. It can be seen when the main character, Kathy, sees her friends' die because they have donated their organs. The story of Never Let Me Go ends when
Kathy goes to Norfolk
. She stands looking at the broad fields.
Do Tommy and Kathy end up together?
Tommy has just given his third donation and is recovering at the Kingsfield center, where he and Kathy spend relaxing afternoons reading and talking. Eventually, they also begin to have sex.
They are happy together
, but cannot avoid feeling that they waited until it was too late.
How is Tommy presented in Never Let Me Go?
Tommy is Kathy's close childhood friend, for whom she also harbors romantic feelings. At Hailsham, Tommy becomes an outcast among his peers because, unlike them, he lacks artistic ability.
He develops a violent temper, often throwing tantrums in response to teasing from his peers
.
What was the reason Madame and Miss Emily took the students best art for the gallery?
What promise does the narrator make to Ruth after her second donation in Chapter 19?
Why is art important in Never Let Me Go?
How do the guardians feel about smoking?
the guardians tell the kids that smoking is
very very bad
for them because they must preserve their bodies.
What does Miss Emily tell Kathy and Tommy?
What does Kathy have to do before they can go talk to Madame?
So it's time to start planning their trip to visit Madame. Before they go, Kathy
does some detective work
. She goes to the address Ruth gave them and does some surveillance on Madame's supposed house in Littlehampton.
Why didn't they just run away in Never Let Me Go?
Why does Ruth keep Tommy and Kathy apart?
Ruth dates Tommy at Hailsham and later, at the Cottages, only
to regret, while serving as a donor
, that she “kept Kathy and Tommy apart.” Ruth then gives Tommy the information to find Madame, former head of Hailsham, so that Kathy and Tommy can request a “deferral” from donation and to live together as a couple.
Why do you think Ruth tells Kathy that Tommy would never be interested in her?
Ruth says that while Tommy respects Kathy, he will never be interested in her romantically because
he does not like dating girls who have slept with other men
. Kathy and Ruth change the subject to their days at Hailsham, but Ruth annoys Kathy by again pretending not to remember details from their childhood.
What is Tommy's theory about the gallery?
Tommy recalls Miss Emily once telling another student that artwork reveals the soul. He theorizes that
Madame's Gallery is used to determine if couples who apply for deferrals are really in love
, reasoning that Madame uses the artwork to see if a couple's souls go together.
Why is it important for Kathy to seek out donors who are from the past or from Hailsham?
What does Hailsham symbolize?
Hailsham represents
Kathy's passiveness
, closely related to her readiness to conform to whatever society has planned for her existence.
Why does Chrissie say she and Rodney like to buy birthday cards in bulk?
Why does Kathy become a carer?
What does it mean to complete in Never Let Me Go?
The clones continue to donate organs until they “complete,” which is
a euphemism for death after the donation of three or four organs
.
Is Never Let Me Go a metaphor?
What happened to Hailsham?
Is Never Let Me Go accurate to the book?
The film stays faithful to the book only in the broadest and most literal of ways
. It's true that both Kathy and Ruth have romantic relationships with Tommy in each version. But the novel takes great pains to establish Ruth and Kathy's childhood friendship, long before dating enters the equation.
Does Kathy become a donor?
Kathy, in contrast,
isn't a donor yet
, so she just can't understand. Kathy gets upset that Tommy has turned this into an issue of donors versus carers, with her alone on one side and Tommy and Ruth together on the other. But thankfully, even though she's hurt, this doesn't blow-up into a big argument.
Why is Madame scared in Never Let Me Go?
She is clearly
scared of Hailsham students
from the start of the novel. And when Kathy and Tommy meet Madame she is very cynical and assumes that they are ungrateful. Plus, she has never given these clones for whom she fights a chance to fight for themselves.
