Never Let Me Go/Fridge: Difference between revisions

== [[Fridge Brilliance]] ==

* The protagonist of ''[[Never Let Me Go]]'' at one point mentions that while she was growing up in Hailsham, she and her fellow students were never really sat down and told [[Walking Transplant|what was planned]] for their futures, but instead gradually allowed to hear bits and pieces of information a little at a time, or told about things when they were just slightly too young to understand, so that by the time they ''did'' understand it, the knowledge itself was nothing new. After finishing the book, I realised that Kazuo Ishiguro had used the exact same technique to tell the audience what would happen; there's never a [[The Reveal|Reveal]], he just gradually allows us to guess, through scenes from Kathy's adult life, what's really happening. When it's finally spelled out for us, it doesn't come as a shock, despite how [[Nightmare Fuel|horrible]] it is. It's simply a confirmation of what we already pretty much knew - exactly as it was for the kids.