Dreams and Passivity in Never Let Me Go
Ruth never even tries to work in an office. "It's funny," I said, "remembering it all now. Remember how you used to go on about it? How you'd one day work in an office like that one?" […] "Don't you sometimes think," I said to Ruth, "you should have looked into it more? All right, you'd have been the first. The first one any of us would have heard of getting to do something like that. But you might have done it. Don't you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you'd tried?" "How could I have tried?" Ruth's voice was hardly audible. "It's just something I once dreamt about. That's all." (19.90, 92-93) The Hailsham students are just pawns "I can see," Miss Emily said, "that it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly be looked at like that. But think of it. You were lucky pawns. There was a certain climate and now it's go...
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