Shady Creativity

"What she said was that if I didn't want to be creative, if I really didn't feel like it, that was perfectly all right.  Nothing wrong with it, she said."  Never Let Me Go (p. 23)

Obviously, both Never Let Me Go and Brave New World are somehow similar.  So far, I am just seeing the differences.  In Brave New World, the perfect world banned creativity and anything of individual thinking.  However, the students in Never Let Me Go are encouraged, or almost forced, to show creativity.  After Tommy says this quote to Kathy, Kathy is shocked.  She can not believe that anyone would not want to show creativity. 

I think something a little fishy is going on.  In the next chapter, the reader finds out about a "Gallery" where all the most original and best art is taken to be "displayed."  Since no one has actually seen the Gallery, it almost seems as if community members are using this art for shady purposes.  I've heard that this book has something to do with clones, so maybe the art connects with the creation of clones in some way. 

So far, it is pretty obvious that if a student is not creative, he or she is looked down upon and shunned by other students.  It is pretty interesting how one difference can cause so much prejudice even in "the perfect world."  I feel like this is like how it is in grade school - if one person is not athletic and outgoing, suddenly they find themselves as the outcast.  No matter how much humans try to create the perfect race, human nature always takes over.  

I appreciate how the artists in this book are the cool people because usually they are considered to be strange.  Go art.