Never Let Me Go Blog Post #4

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

 In the final chapter of this section, Kathy H. gives a little more insight into the future situations and the donations situations. She hints at the idea of "possibles". Basically, each of them was a copy of a normal person and were copied at some unknown time, so I don't even know if they were ever babies. This means that somewhere in the world, there should be the model they were copied from going on about their own lives. This whole concept is just creepy to me. It is also very sad. These kids know that their futures are never possible for them. They've been told from an early age that their lives are already planned out and they'll become carers and then donors and then, eventually, die. Ruth has these vivid ideas about working in an extravagant office one day and all her dreams about her future are sad because they won't happen. Kathy does give a little hint, though. She says, "...I even started wondering if maybe it was all feasible: if one day we might all of us move into a place like that and carry on our lives together" (Ishiguro 144). So I don't know what this means, but maybe it's a little bit of a foreshadowing to their futures possibly. Maybe some of them will get to do what they want. We do already know, though, that Ruth is in donations and Kathy is caring for her, so if they were able to do something, it would have to be before they fulfilled their destinies in donations and caring.