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In the years of 2001 to 2004, right before “Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro was published, scientists were trying to come up with a way to clone humans for the sole purpose of improving the health of real humans. Their idea did not seem so terrifying at the time, but Ishiguro brings the experiment to life and exposes its reality by showing what effect genetically manipulating humans could have on society. “The novel [should] be read as a warning against [cloning]...and the moral issues it raises (Constantakis, Pg. 211).” The amount of truth and possibility of this fictional world becoming a reality is eerily frightening; Cloning is detrimental to human beings, and would destroy our community on a worldwide scale.
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This forces the student to move to The Cottages, where they were to remain until they were ready to donate their vital organs. There is unnecessary tension between the public and Hailsham because of the need to segregate and establish the difference between the clones and humans. When people think about genetically mutated humans, twisted curiosity forms inside of us, and it becomes unbearable to fully comprehend the inhumanity about it due to the burning desire to know the unknown, but there is always an uncomfortable sense of wrongness. With the humans in the world of “Never Let Me Go”, this was not an issue because therapeutic cloning was not an idea, it was an action already taken years in advance. However, after the “Morningdale Scandal...No one wanted to be seen supporting [Hailsham and other clone institutes] anymore (Ishiguro, Pg.

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