"Carers aren't machines. You try and do your best for every donor, but in the end, it wears you down. You don't have unlimited patience and energy. So when you get a change to choose, of course, you choose your own kind. That's natural." (pg. 4)
In the beginning of Never Let Me Go, something is immediately eminent- the reader isn't being told all the details at once, but instead will catch up little by little. One thing that made this stick out so much was that some of the dialect I didn't understand. Words such are carers and donations (it was clear that this use of the word had special meaning) have left me puzzled and dying to know more. Obviously, the narrator, Kathy H uses those words in her normal language. I think that a carer appears to be a sort of doctor, and the donations involve donating body parts. However, I'm puzzled as to why people are donating body parts, what happened in Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth's past, and what exactly Hailsham is. Is it a normal boarding school in England, or something more? I can't figure out whether is book is similiar to Brave New World in the way that it is a completely hypothetical, alternate universe, or whether it is meant to be "really able to happen". Hopefully I will understand the dialect of Kathy better as I read.
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