Never Let Me Go #5

Love is a Human Right

http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/lgbt-rights/marriage-equality

How this relates to my novel?

This little article on human rights relates to my novel Never Let Me Go because love is something no one can tell you not to do. No one can tell you not to love someone. In this article it says "Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution." This means everyone has a right to love someone and not have to worry about anyone's approval. This is just like in the novel Never Let Me Go, when Kathy and Tommy fell in love with each other but they can't be together due to Hailshams cruel experiment with the clones (aka the students at Hailsham boarding school).

My social issue?

In the novel Never Let Me Go, Kathy and Tommy are in love with each other. But due to Hailshams cruel experiment on the clones, they can not be together. In the book, Hailsham is a boarding school which have created these clones as an experiment to donate their vital organs and donate them until you are complete. As the story goes on, nothing can be more sad then seeing a young couple not being able to be with one another due to the fact that one of them will die because of the donation and soon will not be together. Throughout the novel, the series of affection and meetings that develop between Kathy and Tommy are authentic emotions and certainly, they try to obtain a deferral from their fate as organ donors by seeking exemption from donating because how they are absolutely in love. It is ruthlessly obstruct because the humans that run the cloning experiment deny them the right to love or the right to be recognised as a human beings. It is inhuman with which they are denied the right to escape their fate as donors. This is what highlights the ironies of the clones who are actually capable of emotional depths and compassion as well as love, but while it is the humans who commit these atrocities and who are inhuman. The humans have said that the clones are not capable of love because of their donations and that they are experimental so they don't need anything else to worry about. The clones are hardly different than the humans, the only difference is their artificial rather than the natural organs. These is because the clones can think, feel, suffer and have a whole range of emotions similar to humans which includes love. In the novel it shows that the clones are capable of emotion because the love affair unfolds between Kathy and Tommy when Kathy starts to demonstrates she cares for him when all the other students mock and tease him. The social issue is they don't have the right to love or the right to do anything. Throughout this whole novel, its the clones voices which are missing in the case of being able to do whatever they want. But the fact that they don't have much of a choice to do or say anything is really sad.

 A quote which explains that love is a human right and nothing and no one can stop it or even deny it.

 

Never Let Me Go #4

 

How does it relate to my novel? Retell and Relate

 

This quote relates to my novel Never Let Me Go because Kathy, Ruth and Tommy found out after they are done school in Hailsham, their lives would be set for them as Organ Donors or as a carer. They never got asked if that's what they wanted. This quote is an example of what is happening in the novel because the teachers of Hailsham are making them do something they don't want to do. Being yourself and doing what you want to do is the best way to keep yourself happy because its your life and if you do something or be something you don't want to be, you will be miserable your whole life. The second picture can relate to kids now because as we grow up our parents want us to be like doctors and lawyers etc, but that's what they want not us. Kids need the opportunity to explore and express themselves so then they can figure out what they want to do and or become. In some situations kids don't have a say in whether or not they want to do something, they just end up being forced into doing it without being asked. Just like in the novel Never Let Me Go, Ruth and Tommy are now organ donors. As soon as they entered Hailsham there lives had been set by the Guardians (aka the teachers). Even if they don't want to do it, it wouldn't matter because that will be there life. Due to the fact that some kids in Hailsham will be organ donors, they will not be able to have children. This is because its not going to be safe due to how they will be weak. Also, they wouldn't be able to take care of their child because you have to be an organ donor until you are complete, which means until you die. Something like this is a situation a person needs to agree on themselves not being forced into it.

 

Reflect 

 

Every person should always have a choice in a situation or a decision. Being and organ donor is a good thing because your doing a good deed by helping out others in need. But to a point where there's nothing left but just you to die should be the choice of the person. The kids in this novel like Ruth, Tommy and Kathy don't have that choice, I think its wrong that they don't have a say in what they want to do, due to this they can't even have kids. In this novel the kids don't even know until when one guardian told her kids their future. But nothing can be done but just to deal with it because they really can't do anything. Even though this is a novel which these characters so far can't do anything, it doesn't mean people now can't do anything, its just the matter of speaking up, being your self and not let anyone tell you what to do. We have a voice and we should use it.

 

 

 

Enders Game

Journal Entry

 Activity 1:

Bernard

• He’s friends with Alai
• Ender broke his arm in the launch
• Bully’s Ender

Alai

• He is a bridge between Ender and Bernard
• Bernards best friend
• Practices with Bernard and the launchies in the battleroom

Bonzo

• Leader of Salamander Army
• Hates Ender (wants to get rid of him)

Petra Akanian

• A girl in the Salamander Army
• Helps Ender with his shooting
• Best shooter in Salamander Army

Rose the nose

• Rose is Enders new commander in the Rat army when Bonzo Traded him in
• Rose graduated

Dink

• Enders platoon leader in the Rat Army
• Makes good strategy with Ender (helps him train)
• Enders leader after Rose graduated

Mazer Rackham

• The one who defeated the buggers the first time
• He is known as the hero when the first bugger attack came

Ender

• 6 year old child who is a third child (born for military purposes)
• Has 2 siblings Valentine and Peter
• Valentine older then Ender and Peter is 10 years old ( also older then Ender)
• In battle school: Salamander Army to Rat Army
• He is loving and caring for Valentine but hates Peter because he bully’s him
• He has Valentines kindness and Peters aggressiveness
              

Activity 2


Dear Diary,
Even though I am Indian, I have many different cultures in my family. A few summers ago my cousin got married to a Catholic guy. I always had questions about what they do at church and the difference between a temple and a church; this was because a church has different rituals than a temple which I would like to know about. Now that I have a Catholic cousin brother in law I can learn about his culture. Also, another one of my cousin got married to a Filipino guy. Now that he is my cousin brother in law, I can learn about his culture and try different things like any traditional food they might eat. I didn’t know anything about him or where he came from. But now that we are relatives and family, we can learn a lot from each other. The disadvantage for both of my cousin brother in laws has is that they don’t know Punjabi. But the advantage is that they have us to teach them so they can communicate to my grandparents or other elderly people that can’t speak English. The first time I met my second cousin brother in law who is Filipino, I didn’t know how or what to talk to him about, it was really awkward. At first I had nothing in common with him, but now having other cultures and backgrounds in my family; it allows me to be more open and more social with other people. I have a better understanding of different people that have different cultural backgrounds. I like the fact that I was born in Canada because I think being grown in a place where multiculturalism is embarrassed and it is a big thing is really good. This is because everyone gets to learn so much from other people that come from different countries and have different cultures. If I ever came across a person from another country, I would approach them and ask them if they need any help with anything because coming from a different country and trying to learn your way around in a new country is hard. I know this because my dad came from India and he had to learn so many things and get over his fear of talking to people if he needed to get a job. After, he made friends that helped him with his English and all his teachers were really nice as well. So after helping the person out, I would ask him/her questions about where they came from because every culture and country is unique and finding out about new things is interesting. Overall, being in a family that accepted two new cultural backgrounds is a great thing. I got to learn so much, this gave me the opportunity to speak to other people besides my family who have the same background as me. My overall experience with different cultures and countries has been really great and I would like to learn more about other countries with different cultural backgrounds in the future.                                         

Never Let Me Go #3

          My ISU book Never Let Me Go had a social issue of bullying. That was when Tommy, one of the 3 main characters, used to get teased and picked by the older boys. They never included him in anything (like playing soccer) and when they got Tommy mad, he would have his temper tantrums which everyone would talk about. That then led to him being picked on more and people not wanting to talk to him. But as I continued to read the book, the social issue which I think is now developing is that kids don't have a voice in whether or not they want to do something. They don't have a say and also coping with loss. In the book Never Let Me Go, the guardians (aka the teachers) have been telling them that they are special. One guardian in the book told the kids their future which was, every kid that was in that boarding school in Hailsham, England, had to be an organ donor. Tommy and Ruth never got a say in whether or not they wanted to donate their organs. Also they were not going to be allowed to have kids due to the fact they will be organ donors up in till they have been "complete". Complete basically means when they die and as soon as they have been completed that's when you know you have done your job. Kathy becomes a carer to Ruth and Tommy and has to cope with the loss of her best friend Ruth who she knows is not going to make it through her last donation.

http://www.unicef.org/rightsite/files/rights_leaflet.pdf

          In article 6 it says "All children have the right of life. Governments should ensure that children survive and develop healthy." This relates to the social issue of how kids have no say because Tommy, Ruth and Kathy never got a choice in whether they wanted to be donors and or carers. Even though donating organs is a good thing but to the extent of "completion", that should be the choice of the person who is donating not in this case the guardians of Hailsham. Nothing is right by forcing a child to give up their organs to the point where you are "complete" This pdf shows all the rights and responsibilities children have.