Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go

1. Power/ Authority

   • "Told and not told"
   • "They"
   • "I'm a Hailsham student - which is enough by itself to get people's backs up
   • "Donations and all that"
   • "The Gallery remained a hazy realm""

2. Friendship

   • "The instant I saw her again, at that recovery centre in Dover, all our differences... seemed not nearly as important as all the other things"
     • "like the fact that we'd grown up together at Hailsham, the fact that we knew and remembered things no one else did."

3. Mortality

4. Settings

   • The Boat
     • "Tommy and I both helped her through"
     • "Walked together"
     • "Put my arm around Ruth's shoulders"
     • "Ruth's walk was much steadier now"
     • "We chatted much more freely"
     • "It's really beautiful"
     • "Beached"
     • "It had once been painted a sky blue, but now looked almost white"
   • Hailsham
   • The cottages

5. Passivity

6. Characters

   • Ruth
     • "Because of Ruth we got in there as often as we did"
   • Tommy
     • "A bad temper, but a big heart"
   • Kathy
   • Miss Emily
     • "Lucky pawns"
     • "Reared"
     • "We're ALL afraid of you"
   • Miss Lucy
     • "Told and not told"
   • Madame
     • "Poor creatures"