Author’s background

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Japan; however, he was nationalized in England. He is one of the most celebrated contemporary authors in the English speaking world. He won an award in 1989 for his novel “The reminds of the day”. During the year 2005, he wrote the novel “Never let me go”, here he exposed ethical issues that we still can see nowadays.

How society manages children’s minds

In the 1990’s, the English society was in trouble as a result of the appearance of a heinous illness. To resolve this problem, some boarding schools took care of children who had no choices and taught them that they had to donate organs to people that needed them in order to survive. In this especial school children were under exhaustive medical checkups, because they had to be very healthy. They provided programs with especial contents and training. Children should donate three times during their lives, however some of them cannot resist medical procedures and they died after their first donation.

As in every good story, love has to be present. In this case you can see a love triangle. Kathy, Tommy and Ruth are real

friends, connected by the same future, be donors. Kathy is in love with Tommy, but she can’t say it to him, Ruth is in love with him too, and Tommy doesn’t know what he feels. Kathy is the one of them who has more years to survive, because she takes care of children, as a nurse; nevertheless, she must accomplish the same objective in this institution.

The setting

The story takes place in an alternative world, very similar to our reality, during the 20th

century. The society has to assure the well- being of people, so every decision that they take should be based on benefits for the community. The book’s author focused her attention on social and economic problems, dealing with ethical and society’s survival issues.

“Never let me go” is a science fiction book; nontheless, specialists in this area disagree, because they think that every society in the world is always dealing with problems that put them in confrontation. People have to decide all the time between following the rules and live according to what society

The meaning of life

How can books change your perspective of life?

can offer them, or following their instinct and find their own ways to survive and be happy.

We think that this kind of book can blow your mind, because it will place you in a new world. On the other hand, it makes you a clear idea of what life means.

“Your life must now run the course that’s been set for it”- Kazuo Ishiguro, Never let me go.