"... and even though they knew, intellectually, that we couldn't have babies, they still felt uneasy about us doing it because deep down they couldn't quite believe we wouldn't end up with babies." Never Let Me Go (p. 96)
This chapter is one of those morally conflicting chapters like in Brave New World. However, this time, the "normals" are the people with morals, while the donors are taught to have no morals what so ever.
I have two theories for this. One, the guardians and other leaders want to create a distinct line between the donors and the normal people. This way, when the donors serve their life purpose, no one can feel bad for what they have done. Two, the guardians wish to ease their own minds by thinking of the donors as only animals. Guardians do not want to grow attached to their students because they know that in the end, their fate is sealed. I'm going to guess that the guardians are in on this deal in some way. Maybe this is why Miss Lucy leaves at the end of Part 1. I think she may have finally accepted how wrong the process of donation really was.
I think it is interesting how similar but different Brave New World and Never Let Me Go really are. For example, in Brave New World, the "perfect people" are the norm. However, they still have emotions, relationships, and problems just as the people of Hailsham. But the students in Hailsham seem to be the outcasts. Either way, both suffer pretty much the same problems, but in different ways.
Okay, what is up with the total ignorance of the letter "z"?! It is driving me nuts. Realise and recognised are just two examples. I'm guess that this is the British spelling or something like that, but can't we just all be on the same page with spelling...
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