Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro How does Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go fundamentally differ from traditional retellings of Frankenstein, and how does this difference shed light on the anxiety of the contemporary moment?
Primary source Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro secondary source Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Frankenstein(film) 1931 by James Whale’s, and The curse of Frankenstein(film) 1957 by Terence Fischer’s. A thirty-one-year-old woman named Kathy narrates this haunting tale, drawing the reader gradually into her recollections of her life at Hailsham, the idyllic boarding school where she grew up. She and her best friends, Ruth and Tommy, were encouraged by their teachers to create works of art from an early age, to collect cherished objects, and to take good care of their health.
