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.