Never Let Me Go Settings, Plot and Characters

Miss Lucy

Calming Guardian

Helps cool Tommy down and stop his tantrums

Tommy

Throws tantrums

Doesn't like to be creative

Likes shirts

Doesn't fit in and has anger problems therefore gets bullied

Kathy

Main character/protagonist

Narrator

Was a carer for 12 years

Gets to choose her donors

Lucky

Likes Tommy

Ruth

Kathy's friend

Madame

Comes and chooses the best artworks

Girls preform experiment on her

Find out she is afraid of them like they're "spiders"

She is different from the people at Hailsham

Hailsham

School for special kids

Privileged

Possibles

These are the people that are cloned

Hailsham donors are clones of possibles is another way of saying it

Ruth (Later chapters)

Says her dream job is to work in an
office but everyone tells her that she
is crazy and will never be able to

Starts to become more of a brat but is still
"friends" with katy"

They gossip almost every night and seem like friends but during the day while all the other people are around Ruth becomes mean and annoying and deceptive

Annoyed by Kathy and Tommy often

Norfolk

A place where "all lost things go"

A couple of the people at the camp decide to go
to Norfolk and they rent a car (which fails at first
but eventually works out) and go there

Relationships

Kathy and Ruth start to partake in lots of "one-nighters"
with all of the veterans

They like to gossip about it

But Kathy never really feels
emotionally attached to any
of them

Kathy is still talking to Tommy and
things seem to get serious on and
offoffngs

Kathy (later chapters)

Stays pretty consistent

Gossips a lot with Ruth maybe
more than before

Still a reliable source

Chrissie and Rodney

Veteran couple

Rodney says she sees Ruth's
possible at Norfolk

The Cottages

Hosts the veterans, Kathy
Ruth and Tommy

Chrissie, Rodney, Kathy, Tommy and Ruth

Go to the office where they thought they saw Ruth's
possible

They think it could be her but then when she
walks out they realize that it is not her

After realizing it is not Ruth's possible
they decide to visit a friend but
Kathy and Tommy stay behind

Continue to Search for The Lost Tape

They find a copy at a store and Tommy buys it
for her

Tommy starts drawing again

Draws tiny, fantastic, detailed imaginary
animals

Ruth and Kathy say they look funny
and tells him not to embarrass
himself

Ruth and Tommy

They are growing apart
and Kathy confronts Ruth
about how her words some-
times hurt Tommy

And suggest they would
start dating but it would
not be romantic because
he does not like dating
girls who slept with other
guys

Kathy files for carer training

Main topic

Subtopic

Caring is a hard and time
consuming job

Kathy says that she and Ruth did not part on good terms

Hailsham Closed

Ruth has a bad first donation

Kathy goes to visit
her and she is still
weak

Next Kathy and Ruth agree to go see Tommy

Ruth acts weird when they get their...
very shy and not normal ruth

They take Tommy to the boat

They share stories about dreams etc

Ruth gets pissed at Kathy (surprise surprise)
because she talks about how Rodney feels and
Ruth pops off on her and says she doesn't understand

Ruth must be going crazy
because not she is
APOLOGIZING

for holding Kathy's
sexual urges against her

Then Ruth just all of a sudden starts dying

Kathy becomes Tommy's carer

Then they have sex and are happy again

They want to go to Madame to apply
for a deferral with Tommy's new drawings