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.