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Line 1: {{work}} '''''Never Let Me Go''''' is a 2005 science fiction/romance/drama novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, author of ''[[The Remains of the Day]]''. The plot concerns three friends, Kathy, who narrates, Tommy and Ruth, who as children are students of Hailsham, an unusual boarding school in the isolated English countryside. As Kathy nears adulthood, the truth about Hailsham and its students is gradually revealed to the reader. A movie adaptation was released in 2010 starring [[An Education\|Carey Mulligan]] as Kathy, [[Keira Knightley]] as Ruth, and [[Andrew Garfield]] as Tommy. {{tropelist}} ~~=== The novel contains examples of: ===~~ * [[Activist Fundamentalist Antics]]: Inverted - no matter how horrible things get, no one ever shows any outrage against the system. Two of the three protagonists have emotional outbursts of dissaproval and almost hate, but always [[Internalized Categorism\|aiming at themselves]]. * [[Alternate History]] Line 17: * {{spoiler\|[[Expendable Clone]]: the students were created to be expendable for medical purposes}}. * [[Extranormal Institute]] * [[Fantastic Aesop]]: If you interpret the story as purely literal rather than [[Rule of Symbolism\|symbolic]], it all boils down to {{spoiler\|cloning people so you can cut them up for spare parts is bad.}} * [[Free-Love Future]]: Since the students {{spoiler\|can't have children}}, sex isn't a taboo for them and everyone is pretty open about it. * [[I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Ruth, in the later parts of the story. Line 36: * [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: And how. Just about everything that's spoiler sensitive on this page is all but explicitly revealed in the trailer for the upcoming film. * [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] * [[Viewers are Morons]]: Not exactly, but test audiences for [[The Movie]] were so confused about when the film takes place (a very isolated area a la '' {{spoiler\|''[[The Village]]'' or ''[[The Island]]}}''}}? An alternate universe?) that they didn't pay attention to the characters' relationships or the ending. To fix this, a title card was added (with the author's approval) at the beginning puts the film in {{spoiler\|an alternate universe version of [[The Nineties]]}}. * {{spoiler\|[[Walking Transplant]]: All the students of Hailsham were created for this purpose.}} * {{spoiler\|[[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Whether or not clones are or should be considered human.}} * [[Would Be Rude to Say Genocide]]: People "are completed" on an industrial scale. {{spoiler\|And "[[Deadly Euphemism\|completed]]" actually equals "murdered".}} {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Films of the 2010s~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Arthur C. Clarke Award]] [[Category:Films Based on Novels]] [[Category:Films of the 2010s]] [[Category:Lit Fic]] [[Category:Literature of the 2000s]] [[Category:Science Fiction Films]] ▲[[Category:Films of the 2010s]] [[Category:Science Fiction Literature]] [[Category:~~Arthur~~Multiple CWorks ~~Clarke~~Need ~~Award~~Separate Pages]] [[Category:~~Never Let Me Go~~Film]] [[Category:Literature]]