"We all know it. We're modeled from trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps. Convicts, maybe, just so long as they aren't psychos. That's what we come from. We all know it, so why don't we say it? A woman like that? Come on." (pg. 166)
In this particular passage, Ishiguro uses rhetorical questions in order to make Ruth's argument stronger. She speaks them to show how completely ridiculous her friends' ideas are. It completely plays into the thought that "Ruth knows best, all the time". Her words brought ideas that I hadn't even considered before to mind. Why can't the people they are cloned from be high-class people? Why must they be prostitutes, or junkies? It seems to me that those people would not only be unhealthy, but mentally unstable and not someone you would want to replicate. It may be that those types of people would be chosen because they wouldn't have enough power or loved ones to resist something that can be considered creepy and immoral. I wonder if there was an instance with a guardian that would cause Ruth to think this way, though. Hopefully it will be explained later. I think I'm saying that a lot during this book.
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