![]() ![]() It seems that the speech is an analogy between “being told” and understanding what they are told, giving rise to the idea that the purpose of the children has been hidden from them, or explained to them in terms that they wouldn’t know. This seems to be one of the climaxes of the novel where the darker undercurrents of the novel are brought forth in Miss Lucy’s one speech. This passage also separates the meanings of being told and understanding. #2: In the second chosen passage of Never Let Me Go, Miss Lucy reveals the true purpose of the lives of the students at Hailsham. The passage is well-controlled, and uses these devices well, in showing where the action of the book starts to build more. ![]() Stream of consciousness is used throughout the novel, and well, in expressing exactly what Kathy was thinking, in conjunction with retrospection after the whole encounter takes place, in the consciousness of present-Kathy. ![]() As most of the novel is a flashback, this takes place before the reader knows anything of why Madame was upset, and speculation begins, signifying a good use of foreshadowing. Tone and mood are used well, as it conveys easily the strangeness of the situation, and the underlying meaning. This scene is where the tone and mood of the book first becomes dark. ![]() #1: In the first chosen passage of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Kathy finds herself face-to-face with Madame, and not in the way she expected. ![]()
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