Never Let Me Go Juicy Examples for Exam

JUICY AND MEATY EXAMPLES          
Never Let Me Go

The opening                                                                                                        Chapter 1
-          ‘carer’, ‘donation’ ‘completion
-          ‘My name is Kathy H’
-          ‘I’m not making big claims for myself’
-          ‘Maybe I’m remembering it wrong’
-          I don’t know how it was where you were, but at Hailsham we used to have some form of medical every week’
Significance


Tommy’s Temper Tantrum                                                                                       Chapter 1
-          ‘It was like he was doing Shakespeare and I’d come up onto the stage in the middle of his performance’.
-          ‘Mad animal’ (Ruth of Tommy)
-          ‘His arms were still flailing about’.  >> Tommy hits Kathy
-          ‘I thought about his precious shirt’ (Kathy knows more than she lets on about Tommy/sees more than she knows – dramatic irony)
-          ‘Looked at me sheepishly’ (sense that Tommy and Kathy are close >>>> romantic tension)
Significance


The Never Let Me Go Tape/Madame Incident                                                     Chapter 6
-          ‘Oh baby, baby never let me go’
-          ‘Grabbed a pillow to stand in for the baby’
-          ‘The odd thing is that she was crying (Madame)
-          ‘She just went on standing there, sobbing and sobbing… like she was staring at something that gave her the creeps’.
-          ‘This time there was something else, something extra that I couldn’t fathom’ >>>> dramatic irony
-          ‘How could she have known?’ – ‘Maybe Madame can read minds’ >> Dramatic irony – this moment has more significance than we know at the time

Significance



The Balloons                                                                                                          Chapter 18
The balloons ‘had faces and shaped ears’
‘I kept thinking about Hailsham closing and how it was like someone coming along with a pair of shears and snipping the balloon strings just where they entwined above the man’s fist. Once that happened, there’d be no real sense in which those balloons belonged with each other anymore.’

Significance


The Discarded Boat                                                                            Chapter 19
‘beached boat’
‘hollow and emaciated tree trunk’
‘I always see Hailsham as being like this now. No logic to it.’ (Tommy)
‘At least we’ve seen it now’ (Tommy)

Significance









Water imagery – Tommy and Kathy’s separation                             Chapter 23
I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other…. The current’s too strong. They’re got to let go, drift apart. ….
It’s a shame Kath, because we’ve loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can’t stay together forever.’


Significance


Rubbish and Water Imagery – The Ending                                        Chapter 23
‘everything I’d lost since my childhood had washed up’
‘the shore-line of odd stuff’
‘strange rubbish’  (c/f ‘Modelled from trash)
‘If I waited long enough …. I’d see Tommy and he’d wave, maybe even call’.
‘To drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.’


Significance


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