Never Let Me Go 19

"We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all." -pg. 260

This chapter finally explains the whole book for me. While I thought Hailsham and the rest of the world was so inhumane to clone humans for donations, I realize it is the complete opposite. The clones, which we call students, can cure cancer, heart disease, or anything. These students have basically taken disease out of the world. Now that I look at it, these students seem not even human. Hailsham was out to prove they were human. This brings me so much more insight and respect for Hailsham and Miss Emily and Madame who ran Hailsham. The reason the students were not taught math and science was because it would be useless to them. The art and poetry was to prove they had souls and were actually human, even if they were cloned. Hailsham makes total sense to me now, and brings a complete sadness. It saddens me to think these students are not truly human, and the world sees them as robots. It saddens me even more that I think of them as only robots as well, and that they only have one purpose in life--to save others' lives.