1. Who may Kathy be reminiscing to in the novel, (who is the audience she is addressing exactly)?
There are small hints throughout the first few chapters of the text that reveal that Kathy may be addressing an audience of other clones like her, and not an average person. She assumes that we, as readers are just like her and already know about her life. At one point, Kathy modestly acknowledges, “I don’t know how it was where you were” (11). She is obviously assuming that we are donors as well. Her descriptions of Hailsham and her life frequently refer to second person; for example, she says, “The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it’s a cold moment” (36). Kathy is explaining, how she felt when the Mistress looked at the kids when she saw them. She was repelled by them, and this showed them how the rest of the outside world will see them too. They have never felt rejection, or repulsion from somebody until that point. Through this stylistic technique, Ishiguro suggests that only someone with similar experiences can truly understand Kathy’s story, and that allows readers to make an effort to relate to her, as we do not know much about her life. We only know what Kathy describes to us in her thoughts, and descriptions of her childhood.
2. What were Hailsham's administrators trying to achieve in attaching a high value to creativity and the “Gallery”?
Kathy tells the reader, "How you were regarded at Hailsham, how much you were liked and respected, had to do with how good you were at “creating" (16). I think that Kathy and the administrator’s value creativity so highly at the Hailsham because they can exchange art or buy another person’s are and “decorate” their own spaces with it. The children ...
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...and animals. “Jackie’s giraffes,” Ruth said with a laugh. “They were so beautiful. I used to have one.” (17). In this case, many of the children valued these animals because they were so precious, and they held value in their eyes when they exchanged art. The last example of animal imagery is when Kathy narrates, “It had never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel, being seen like that, being the spiders.” (35). When Kathy compares herself and her friends to spiders when they test to see if Madame is scared of them, they finally realized how society saw them, as animals. It's a very subtle reminder of the divide that exists between the normal humans and clones. In reality, they're no different as clones are filled with organs, veins and have souls. But they're being treated like animals, or even machines, who can be chopped up for parts whenever it's needed.
When that room is entered all voices are hushed, and all merriment silenced. The place is as holy as a church. In the centre of the canvas is the Virgin Mother with a young, almost girlish face or surpassing loveliness. In her eyes affection and wonder are blended, and the features and the figure are the most spiritual and beautiful in the world's art.
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In “The Art Room,” by Shara McCallum, the author is telling a story about her childhood. McCallum and her sisters did not grow up with a lot of money so they had to make due with what they had. “Because we had not chalk or pastels, no toad, forest, or morning-grass slats of paper, we had no color for creatures. So we squatted and sprang, squatted and sprang.” They used their imagination and their bodies to create music and art. The tone of this poem is reminiscent and whimsical, the theme is about how even if you do not have a lot of money you can still have fun.
The book can be used as a metaphor for education as a whole. For example, Kate can represent modern institutions and companies. Due to education inflation and credentialism, all they look at is your educational experience and what knowledge you have. This can be applied to Kate as she originally believed your educational background will represent your success in life. In comparison to this, you have Kate’s family, who can relate to students in society. Kate’s family understands that there is more to life than education and knowledge. The same applies to students, who argue there is more to people than their education and years in
Her father works out of town and does not seem to be involved in his daughters lives as much. Her older sister, who works at the school, is nothing but plain Jane. Connie’s mother, who did nothing nag at her, to Connie, her mother’s words were nothing but jealousy from the beauty she had once had. The only thing Connie seems to enjoy is going out with her best friend to the mall, at times even sneaking into a drive-in restaurant across the road. Connie has two sides to herself, a version her family sees and a version everyone else sees.
From the beginning of Kat’s life, she was at odds with her environment. When she was a child, she was Katherine, a doll like representation of what her mother wanted her to be. As a teenager she was Kathy, a representation of what she believed others wanted, “a bouncy, round-faced [girl] with gleaming freshly washed hair and enviable teeth, eager to please and no more int...
...nfluence of society on Lucille, as seen in her desire the ‘look the way one was supposed to look’. As Lucille attempts to integrate and conform into society, she becomes increasingly attached to her physical image, while Ruth describes her own appearance to be ungainly and awkward. Lucille’s attachment to keeping a favorable image symbolizes her conformity and displays the theme of emphasizing physical objects and images. This idea connects with the book, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, as the patients there who are not committed are scared to enter the real world due to their lack of confidence in their image and their acceptance into reality becomes a fear that hinders their consciousness, for example Billy Bibbit, and would rather stay in the ward. All in all, the theme of emphasizing physical objects and images relate to Lucille’s conformity towards society.
“She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight,” (11). The novel, Their Eyes Were Watching, God by Zora Neale Hurston, tells a story of a woman, Janie Crawford’s quest to find her true identity that takes her on a journey and back in which she finally comes to learn who she is. These lessons of love and life that Janie comes to attain about herself are endowed from the relationships she has with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, and Tea Cake.
In the novel Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro uses diction and metaphor to reveal the fear that society has for clones. Kathy, the narrator of the novel, and the the other children at Hailsham are clones. In the passage, some students from Hailsham, including Kathy, are curious about Madame’s feelings regarding them, so they construct a plan to swarm her as she walks into the main house. They are not prepared for the response they get; Madame freezes and looks as if she is someone with arachnophobia looking at spiders. Kathy and the girls are shaken up because of the cold moment they are experiencing, and it feels as if they had just seen themselves as something other than what they had always felt like. She says, “And I can still see it now, the shudder she seemed to be suppressing, the real dread that one of us
...ted at the prospect of Rachel traveling with a comic opera company, but her beautiful daughter turns down the fruitful offer. Instead, Rachel volunteers to go out to the Rectangle and spread the word of God and the joy of her singing. This relates to the role that women played in this time period. Women were placed in a role of bettering society. Many women took up roles in organizations that were devoted to make a positive difference in American Society. Women lobbied for Child's labor reform and woman suffrage. Rachel Winslow demonstrates these qualities in the novel.
Characterization plays an important role when conveying how one’s personality can disintegrate by living in a restrictive society. Although Kat is slowly loosing her mind, in the story, she is portrayed as a confident woman who tries to strive for excellence. This can be seen when she wants to name the magazine “All the Rage”. She claims that “it’s a forties sounds” and that “forties is back” (311). However the board of directors, who were all men, did not approve. They actually “though it was too feminist, of all things” (311). This passage not only shows how gender opportunities is apparent in the society Kat lives in, but also shows the readers why Kat starts to loose her mind.
“After his second-grade class created self-portraits last year, I noticed that he was the only one not hanging on the classroom wall. His teacher explained that his portrait was ‘a work in progress.’ The
While attending Hailsham the students try vigorously to strive for their best art in order to have their artwork selected for “the gallery,” which is a wide-ranging collection of their best works that is shown to the outside world. In response this changes the students view of their o...
...reader to walk away, giving anyone the chance who is willing to stand against the injustices of society. She uses her own personal afflictions in order to better create a stronger, individualized woman after the acquisition of hope. She uses her story; she enlists the help of the reader to put justice and hope back into society. Therefore, "Let us begin."
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man presents an account of the formative years of aspiring author Stephen Dedalus. "The very title of the novel suggests that Joyce's focus throughout will be those aspects of the young man's life that are key to his artistic development" (Drew 276). Each event in Stephen's life -- from the opening story of the moocow to his experiences with religion and the university -- contributes to his growth as an artist. Central to the experiences of Stephen's life are, of course, the people with whom he interacts, and of primary importance among these people are women, who, as his story progresses, prove to be a driving force behind Stephen's art.