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The theme of this poem is the same as what I believed to be a central theme of Never Let Me Go; it points out the tendency of humans to want to ignore the things they find uncomfortable in their lives. This is shown as silly and ridiculous. The mother continually says she wants to know everything, but when she does, the son is reprimanded. Sometimes, we aren't ready for the truth, as Jack Nicholson so powerfully lets us know.
During the Vietnam war, the general public seemed to not want to know the truth about what was happening; by ignoring it, it was easier to justify what was going on. Veterans who returned were often alienated, although not many understood what they had to go through. Rottmann points out how people cringed at the thought of the truth about Vietnam through the repetition of the line "Dear Mom, sure rains here a lot." Just as the society liked to forget about the unethical side of clones in Never Let Me Go, so America liked to forget about the horrors of Vietnam.
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