Flashcards: nlmg vs twdsc

“What is he so worried about? It's always been the end of the world. What did we have this century?" on his father. ‘I opted for it to protect – I thought – my heart, but Margo exploited it to expand our world.’ (p. 108) "This is probably the safest place in the world"

"What should you do? Ignore the child? I found that I had no choice in the matter as soon as I started seeing the class as more important than the student, the children were lost, I was lost."

"This whole thing is symbolic, symbolic of a system that's hopelessly short-sighted, a system that twenty, thirty years ago couldn't imagine a time when we might be starting a new century." "You can promise to be as sweet as you want, but picture this: the future is a hospital, packed with sick people, packed with hurt people, people on stretchers in the halls, and suddenly the lights go out, the water shuts off, and you know in your heart that they're never coming back on. That's the future."

“There have been times over the years when I’ve tried to leave Hailsham behind, when I’ve told myself I shouldn’t look back so much. But then there came a point when I just stopped resisting. “The fantasy never got beyond that—I didn’t let it—and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn’t sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.”

"and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field, and gradually get larger until I’d see it was Tommy, and he’d wave, maybe even call. . . . and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn’t sobbing . . . I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be."

"I was like you, Tommy. I was pretty much ready when I became a donor. It felt right. After all, it's what we're supposed to be doing, isn't it?" We all know it. We’re modeled from trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps. Convicts, maybe, just so long as they aren’t psychos. That’s what we come from. We all know it, so why don’t we say it?

“None of you will go to America, none of you will be film stars. And none of you will be working in supermarkets as I heard some of you planning the other day. Your lives are set out for you.”

Avoidance, Rationalism, Escapism, Panic> mass panic, Denial, Hysteria, Dissection, Nihilism, Blame guilt trip, Introspect, Hedonism, Spirtuality, Polarising, Dichotomy

Technologially impressive science fiction as a genre. There is the organ donations and the pallative care.

but this is more so on growth, men becoming disllussion with their fathers and moving away from that aspect to focus on themselves.Usually set in a regional area.

In nlmg, the characters are essential organ harvesting farms since young without acknowledge of how they have been personified into humans. In twdsc, it's a similar structure but political, tyrannical rule over the populus. An intellectual limbo, lack of bodily autonomy, misplace orality, manipulation, deception, withheld information, physical barriers, controlled movement

the narrator protects his partner but nlmg, they have a control in their relationships as a way reassurance cause that’s all they knew

The nuance, subtle differences. General awarness because kathy begins as innocent but is drip fed her purpose to be docile, dutiful and compliant. Yet narrator is acutely aware and manipulates power structure to benefit themselves privilege.

Oppressive social/political structures like exfoliation. Nlmg has clones, treats them as 2nd class citizens. Twdsc is quiet unclear as well, but is on peoples good rather. A dog eats dog world, status mentality, when youre lost you have a cushion, but have more to lose.

parallels of zoomorphism device, makes question of ethics of animals pointing to potential future issues. Body scene in norfolk

Both authors are criticising and condemning power structure that keep people powerless and encourage they to balance completely. They are commenting on our society and encouraging us to look critically at our power structure

overarching idea, similarities and differences. Dint suggest be deliberate.

intro with contention and ts. With discuss ideas, themes, body 2 with same ideas, body 3 different. And conclude

1st body similar. Second body paragraph difference, 3rd both of them. Conclusion. Preferable for deep comparison. Topic sentence, clarify, evidence then transition to text b, and link back.

With this section you having make a conclusion on the greater concepts

Both Amsterdam and Ishiguro take a pragmatic approach to human freedom in ‘Things We Didn’t See Coming’ and ‘Never Let Me Go’. In the harsh worlds they depict, freedom is inevitably limited and compromised. Yet the characters demonstrate resilience and tenacity in their attempts to exercise their autonomy and not submit meekly to a greater power. Amsterdam’s narrator largely conforms to the requirements of the organisations that employ him, yet he subverts the rules as opportunities for human connection. Ishiguro’s characters also test the limits of the society they are born into; although their fates are, tragically, determined for them at birth, Kathy and Tommy persist with their quest for understanding, and find a degree of solace in the deep bond they forge with each other. In both texts, freedom is presented as a central human value that is rarely fully achievable.