That was the worst thing I did. Nothing wrong with it, she said.
well, you know, with this person and that. But I know he doesn’t see you like, you know, a proper girlfriend.
...she thought it was a stupid idea. Although Never Let Me Go takes place in the 1990s, Kathy’s opening lines suggest that this is not straightforwardly historical fiction, but instead a parallel universe. Kathy has worked as a carer for nearly twelve years, much longer than most of the students with whom she grew up at Hailsham. well, you know, with this person and that.
What I want is for you to put it right.
I really wanted to find it [the cassette tape] for you. It wasn’t good for me so I stopped it.
Nothing wrong with it, she said. If you’re going to have decent lives, then you’ve got to know and know properly. The refrain, “Baby, baby, never let me go,” makes her think the song is about a woman who miraculously has a baby after being told that she cannot have children.
Determined. Of course, when a book starts out with a line like "My name is Kathy H.," you can be pretty sure this Kathy gal is going to be the apple of our reading eyes. Your lives are set out for you.
-Graham S. His arms were still flailing about, and he wasn’t to know I was about to put out my hand. . You catch our drift: Kathy is seriously important.
I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be. Then within a second or two, I began to feel a new kind of alarm, because I could see there was something strange about the situation. and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field, and gradually get larger until I’d see it was Tommy, and he’d wave, maybe even call. And you didn’t want to do it in the fields even when it was warm enough, because you’d almost certainly discover afterwards you’d had an audience watching from the house passing round binoculars. .
Instant downloads of all 1331 LitChart PDFs Kathy spends her days looking backwards, recalling her memories of the people that she has lost. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I wonder what Madame would say if she saw these.Well, Kathy, what you have to realize is that Tommy doesn’t see you like that. .
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Kathy H. is the novel’s protagonist and narrator. Kathy has worked as a carer for nearly twelve years, much longer than most of the students with whom she grew up at Hailsham.
We couldn’t understand how you could ever get like that.
. . . ...and Ruth is in the mood for a break from the monotony of the hospital.
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The novel’s narrator and protagonist, Kathy H. was a student at Hailsham and a friend of Ruth’s and Tommy’s. Struggling with distance learning? But Emily notes that all this came to an end once the Morningdale Scandal struck. After a time, the group walks outside, and at this point,
Kathy H. In Never Let Me Go, Kathy H. is the big cheese.She's the head honcho. .
I wish now I’d done that too.The point about Chrissie—and this applied to a lot of the veterans—was that for all her slightly patronizing manner towards us when we’d first arrived, she was awestruck about our being from Hailsham. ...nods heatedly in assent, as though she knew all about this possibility from Hailsham, but It might even have been one of her sobs that had come through the song to jerk me out of me dream.The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told and not told. Afterwards, the others thought he’d meant to do it, but I was pretty sure it was unintentional.
LitCharts uses cookies to personalize our services. These idiosyncrasies reflect the unreliability of memory itself, which is necessarily incomplete and episodic.
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