Never let me go novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go Evidence, Arrangement and Analytic Foci for Essay 4

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt

Distal Causes (all Necessary)

Worldwide focus on medical technology post-WWII and radically increased life expectancy; 262

The donor program’s success; 262-263

The Hailsham Campaign; 42-43, 261-263

The Morningdale Scandal and Race; 263-265

Perpetuating Causes (all Sufficient)

Carers; 3-5, 132, 150, 200-203, 207-208, 288

Coding from Hailsham (see below!)

Donor Pride; 225-227, 280-283

Evidence

Urban Legends and Hailsham Discourse

The Boy Tied to a Tree with his Hands and Feet Cut Off and The Girl Locked Outside the Gate; 50-52, 78

The Deferral; 141-145, 152-155, 176-177, 257-258

Hailsham and its rhetoric; 10, 16, 22-23, 29, 36, 67-69, 74-75, 81-84, 85-89, 115-118, 267-269

The Hailsham Life I (Positive Evidence)

The Exchanges, The Sales and “Bumper Crops”; 16, 41-42

Collections; 38-39, 70-73

Madame’s Gallery; 30-36, 40, 252-255, 259-262

Kathy’s tape, “Never Let Me Go” and denying hope; 70-73, 81-84, 270-272, 273 (?)

Sexual Freedom; 83-84, 94-99, 238-239

The Hailsham Life II (Negative Evidence)

What things are missing from life at Hailsham (late 1970s-1990s), and how does each contribute to the phenomenon we are considering?

Thesis

Describe the MOST SIGNIFICANT CAUSE (S) of the phenomenon and note WHY it/they is/are

Intro, Arrangement of Causes

Deductive: General Rule (T)→Specific Examples Proving the Rule

most→least important

least→most important

most→least obvious

least→most obvious

Inductive: CIS or RQ→Specific Examples→General Rule (T)

most→least important

least→most important

most→least obvious

least→most obvious

Refutation

consideration of potential reader questions and objections along the way

alternative cause: in general, the idea of positive causes vs. negative ones

Citations and Work (s) Cited page

For “In-Text” Identification of Sources use EITHER...

“Speaker Tags” ...when Kathy rhetorically asks, “That’s what we’re supposed to be doing, isn’t it?”

or MLA citations: ...when Kathy reminds us that she’s always thinking about getting back

“to wherever it was [she] was supposed to be.” (288).

Work(s) Cited Page: one entry for the text (of course, if supporting sources are used, list them too)