Never Let Me Go also contains elements recognizable to readers of 20th-century fiction, especially novels of “dystopias,” or future environments characterized by brutal political realities. reveals to the reader the facts of “clone life” in England, and the harsh reality of her predetermined fate. Never Let Me Go operates similarly, on a technical level, as Kathy H. Ishiguro demonstrates throughout an ability to channel the voice of this butler-a man who does not seem to comprehend his friend Miss Kenton’s affection for him-and by the end of the work, the reader has gained a sharper understanding of that character’s emotional state.

In that book, a narrating protagonist, a butler named Stevens, describes his life after the death of his master. Ishiguro’s work might first be understood in the context of his other novels, including his most notable, The Remains of the Day. Ishiguro’s choice to make the novel primarily about human lives-and the way all human must deal with their particular fates-is an especially deft move, which allows the scientific facts of the novel to seem even more real and persuasive. Never Let Me Go presumes a more complex and widespread system of organ-farming-the clones really are human beings, but their lives exist solely to create and 'caretake' organs for “real” humans-and Ishiguro allows these biological and ethical ideas to play out in the background, while a very human story of love, loss, and maturation occurs in the foreground. These developments precipitated a great deal of discussion-among the general public, in government, and at universities-regarding humankind’s moral obligation to cellular life.

Thus, stem cells could be taken from an undeveloped zygote and used (at least theoretically) to generate cellular materials for the organs of fully-grown adults.

One point of contention in the United States was the development of “stem-cell research,” or a set of scientific techniques that “farm” undifferentiated cells in order to shape them, and use them, for medical purposes. In the 1990s, scientists in the western world began work on cloning-the first “clone” ever created was a sheep named Dolly-and these advancements have also operated on the cellular level. Ishiguro wrote the novel at the beginning of the 21st-century, during a fast-moving period of development in the biological and medical sciences.

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