Paper instructions:
The following is an excerpt from a review of Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, by The Guradian’s M. John Harrison (Friday 25 February 2005). Read the paragraph and then respond to Harrison’s review by writing 2-3 paragraph on whether or not you agree or disagree with this assessment about “Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro? Why or why not? Be sure to provide textual evidence to support your answer.
“Ishiguro’s contribution to the cloning debate turns out to be sleight of hand, eye candy, cover for his pathological need to be subtle. So what is Never Let Me Go really about? It’s about the steady erosion of hope. It’s about repressing what you know, which is that in this life people fail one another, grow old and fall to pieces. It’s about knowing that while you must keep calm, keeping calm won’t change a thing. Beneath Kathy’s flattened and lukewarm emotional landscape lies the pure volcanic turmoil, the unexpressed yet perfectly articulated, perfectly molten rage of the orphan.”