Never Let Me Go Blog Post #1

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

FORESHADOWING: the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
FIRST PERSON POINT OF VIEW: one of the characters tells the story

 The structure of the story is interesting to me. It is divided into three parts and in between chapters, there are separate sections that deal with different aspects of the story. In the first section, the speaker used the sections to separate sporadic thoughts that popped up in her memory. I like the second section a lot more because it is all in chronological order. I can follow what Kathy is talking about. This separate section also deals with the last three years at Hailsham and the first couple years at the Cottages. This time is a time of transition for the characters. The story is told in first person point of view and it is all told from the perspective of Kathy H., a former student at Hailsham. She is telling the whole story as a sort of memory. This is interesting because everything said has a sense of foreshadowing and a sense of prior knowledge. The individual sections within the chapter that separate the memories leave me on edge every time because they always end with a sentence like "Well, anyway, this era of putting Harry off lasted maybe a couple of weeks, and then came Ruth's request" (Ishiguro 102). This drives me insane and makes me want to keep reading, knowing that Kathy knows what is coming next, but not me.