Never Let Me Go Blog Post #6

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

 Hailsham is a separate society built upon many, many secrets and strange rules that the students there grow up with. Some of the students refer to this aspect as "told and not told". The students were always given hints of what they were destined to do, but they were told at such an age that they couldn't fully comprehend the severity of their situation. Finally, in section 4, the students find out many answers to the secrets such as the Gallery and the deferrals. First and foremost, there are no deferrals. The deferrals were made up by students and Miss Emily says she tried to stop any rumor at the source, but it always kept coming back. I think this is because the students wanted to have some hope for a normal life that they came up with the deferrals to make themselves feel better about having somewhat of a normal life. The Gallery did seem to have purpose, though. And Tommy's theory wasn't that far off from what Miss Emily says. She tells Tommy and Kathy that they took their artwork to "prove you had souls at all" (Ishiguro 260). This is because people didn't approve of what they were doing at Hailsham and they were treating the students like they were less than human. So, Miss Emily and Madame came up with the Gallery to prove to others that they needed to be treated humanely because they actually had souls. I find this idea chilling and it makes me feel weird that there could actually be people with these sorts of ideas.