OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Paper 1
A person who provides an organ for someone else. In Never Let Me Go, clones undergo repeated donations within a system that eventually kills them.
Revise: Plot overviewKathy tells the story at thirty-one, while working as a carer in an alternative England of the late 1990s. She looks after people recovering from organ donations, but she is not separate from their fate: she, too, will eventually become a donor.
- Revise: Part One: Hailsham (Chapters 1 to 9)
In Never Let Me Go, a clone required to give vital organs for the benefit of other people. The reassuring word disguises the lack of genuine choice.