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Never Let Me Go In the book Never Let Me Go, it resembles a lot from the book The Remains of the Day, since it is written by the same author, Kazuo Ishiguro. Both of these books rely on the memories of the protagonist, which are Mr. Stevens and Kathy H. In their memoirs, they both reflect on their lives before leading up to a cataclysmic event. In Never Let Me Go, Kathy H shares her experience as she realizes that she and her friends exist merely to use their body parts to extend the lives of the “normals” in British society. Although Kathy and Stevens both accept that they must sacrifice themselves for their social superiors, they also both take the time to record their individual memories for future generations. Why would they write about their memories if they were going to be forgotten anyway? I believe that Kathy H writes to mourn and cope with the people she has lost over the process of donations, to share her experience for future generations to learn what is going on in these clones lives, and to provide herself with self-love and worth that no one else around her seems to give. Every story has a unique interpretation of it, as people remember …show more content…

“The earlier years—the ones I've just been telling you about—they tend to blur into each other as a kind of golden time, and when I think about them at all, even the not-so-great things, I can't help feeling a sort of glow” (70). She realizes how lucky she was to have grown up there, without it she wouldn’t have met the two people that changed her life for good. As we see that Kathy never talks about the future, because in the future she will be “completed”, so she relies on the past to help her realize how good her life was despite all the repercussions the future has in store for her and the others

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