Never Let Me Go Analysis

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In contemporary politics, a hot topic that most people feel quite heated on is the pro-life or pro-choice debate. Abortion and women’s health rights are at the forefront of many people’s political views. These views are highly debated and this is not exempt from literature. Authors like Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman write about this debate in their books Never Let Me Go and Unwind, respectively, but in a futuristic manner that is more discretely about pro-life or pro-choice. In both Unwind and Never Let Me Go, the author's manipulation and presentation of the key issue of organ donation and more largely life itself, they depict a stance on the pro-life or pro-choice decision. Unwind uses the idea of storking and the forced unwinding of many children to show a pro-life decision while Never Let Me Go adopts a pro-choice stance through the manipulation of the children at Hailsham. Through the carefully chosen voices of narrators like Connor and Risa, Shusterman manipulates the reader to show the lack of autonomy over their own lives and how therefore, the system or overarching government needs to be pro-life on the issue of unwinding and organ donation. Unwind is written from the perspective of several kids who are about to be unwound, two of which are Risa and Connor. …show more content…

By Shusterman using Unwind to be pro-choice and Ishiguro being pro-life, the authors present readers with an argument through their manipulation of the setting and events. These issues are increasingly relevant and having books that are critiques on them allow for readers to be more invested in the issues and care more. Involvement in new and pressing issues is paramount to society and books like Unwind and Never Let Me Go are important parts of conversation in larger discussion about rights to bodily autonomy and the right to life and/or

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