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Question: Compare how the two texts explore the role relationships plays in preserving humanity.
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This essay is a response to the following question:
Question: Compare how the two texts explore the role relationships plays in preserving humanity.
According to Never Let Me Go and Things We Didn’t See Coming, relationships are instrumental in facilitating the preservation of humanity. In Amsterdam’s dystopian text Things We Didn’t See Coming, kinship ties, and romantic love, compensate somewhat for the immorality of the unnamed narrator’s troubling history. For Ishiguro too, the embellished, and at times false recollections of an idyllic Hailsham childhood spent with a fraternity of childhood friends, afford the ill-fated Kathy H, the luxury of respite from a grim and inhumane reality as a carer and soon-to-be donor. The preservation of humanity requires the sustenance of relationships that can offer hope, even if the idea of a future is illusory and fanciful. Redemption for the unnamed narrator of Amsterdam’s text absolves him of past wrongs, his reunification with an estranged father affirming his humanity moments before his death. Yearning for a return to the past, the refrain ‘Never Let Me Go’ is, for Kathy, a sad lament for a life already lost and a humanity that persists nonetheless whilst for the protagonist of Things We Didn’t See Coming, the familiarity of a father’s pea-green eyes reignites the father/son bond.
