-Never Let Me Go begins like a contemporary mainstream novel. It takes awhile for the reader to realize that the world described is not the "real world".Gradually, you catch on to the differences and learn the rules of this world, as the characters themselves learn.
-The context of the story only gradually unfolds over the course of the book, allowing the full horror of the social arrangement to arise clearly.
-It's so sad when you realize that human beings could probably be reared to believe almost anything is normal.
- forumWhat the narrator does mirrors the way the guardians dole out information to the students: When they present the facts of the situation they do so as if already knew all about it, as if had heard it before. It turns out to be an effective brain-washing technique. By the time you learn what's really going on, you are too far along to really object, and you really can't say that anyone was purposely keeping you in the dark.
-none of the interesting (and obvious) questions were posed, i.e. What made them resigned to their fate? Did they ever think about going into hiding? --having read I's comments, this is the 'universal' resonance he was interested in. exactly powerful that book never asks, Why don't they escape? no one says, Let's escape. no one says, Why don't any of us try to escape?
Ishiguro (tel-arts) : Why don't the characters figure out how the system works,rebel agnst it flee to the Isle of Man? That wld be crossing the line where my metaphor works.By&large,we accept our fate.

&from az hardcover page:
-the students of Hailsham, an elite school in the English countryside, are so special that visitors shun them, and only by rumor and the occasional fleeting remark by a teacher do they discover their unconventional origins and strange destiny. Like the students of Hailsham, readers are "told but not told" what is going on and should be allowed to discover the secrets of Hailsham and the truth about these children on their own.
-readers learn that the Hailsham children are clones, raised solely for the purpose of medical harvesting of organs, their lifespan circumscribed by years when they are designated as carers, followed by a short period as active donors, culminating in what is obliquely referred to as completion.
-forum I agree that it is unfortunate that some reviewers (and the Library of Congress catalogue data) yep, I ~regretted looking at that a few chapters in have revealed that the book is about cloning, a fact which the author keeps hidden until page 81.