Analysis Of Kathy's Kathy

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Kathy’s narration gives the impression of the narrative term orality by using words such as “say”, “anyway” and “[o]kay” and relaxed language such as “daft” and “to go bankers" Kathy often addresses her speaking directly to the reader. She remembers things as she tells the story and it gives the impression of her narration to be very spontaneous and conversational – just as a ‘regularnormal human’ would talk and think. This spontaneous impact on the structure forms an idea of her narration as her own memories of her past self that she finds important in the formation of her present self.
The tone of narration is very euphemistic, which can be seen through Kathy’s use of vocabulary. For example, she replaces the word ‘clones’ with "students" …show more content…

As mentioned before, the genre of the book can be described as social science fiction. Instead of having a focus on the science of making clones, the book solely concentrates on the everyday life of Kathy, which is described in detail. The facts that the students are clones, are all expected to donate their organs and then die, are hardly touched upon and are not topics the narrator focuses on. The reader is provoked to thinkthinks of the moral facets of these aspects throughout the book, asbut it is still not something that is answered and explained at any point. The discourse of the narration does not allow the reader to get out of Kathy’s mind. Even though the reader is very distanced from the setup of the novel and the narration is very battened-down and shows no signs of emotion or wish to revolt, it still creates an emotional impact on the reader and makes one feel the things Kathy tries to suppress. Even though the main topic of the narrative, which is her being a clone, is repressed by Kathy, it is still partly transferred to the …show more content…

We will primarily focus on this location since this is where Kathy spends most of her time and it is the place that seems to have influenced her and the other characters' life the most. Hailsham appears to be an unconventional school since most institutions for clones are portrayed as raising them in an inhumane way and only see them as collections of organs (Ishiguro 2006). Hailsham on the other hand, gives the clones a humanized and cultivated education through e.g. art classes. With the art the clones produce, the guardians intend to prove that they have souls and should be treated like real human beings (255-258). This form of education gives the clones a feeling of higher meaning in their lives, and it is from that feeling and the search for an identity that their dreams of the future (140) and the myth of deferral arise (150). The education at Hailsham in reality only serves to let the students live a decent life before they start donating their organs. In the eyes of the guardians, the students at Hailsham were just fortunate enough to have lived a humanized life but they still have to "run the course that has been set for [them]" (Ishiguro, 2006: 261). The guardians at Hailsham think that the clones are inferior to the human race, which is shown through the use of words such as "creatures" (249) and “spiders” (38). Hailsham, among other institutions, are in fact only

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