Never Let Me Go literature analysis

1. In a nutshell, there are 3 main characters: Kathy, Ruth and Tommy. The story starts with Kathy as the narrator telling how she is 31 and has been a "carer" for 12 years. The three of them are students at an English boarding school called Hailsham where they are taught alot about how to stay fit and healthy. There are "doners" who after 3 donations reach completion and there are "carers" who give the doners emotional support and in essense care for them during their donations.Now the three of them and all the other students at Hailsham are clones and their sole purpose in life is supply humans with organ donations and they are told this from a very young age. They are supposed to be copies of "originals" who look just like them but older.  Tommy has a hard time being creative and struggles with his art, Kathy is very observant and watches those around her and Ruth is extremely social and involved. At the boarding school they have guardians who care for them and they are encouraged to be artistic, a woman refer to as madame collects their best pieces and they think keeps them in a secret gallery. Tommy and Kathy kind of have a thing, but then Tommy and Ruth start having a sexual relationship now as early to mid teens and Kathy stays close friends with them both. Then they move into cottages and are slowly brought into the real world by older students who teach them to be "normal". They begin to hear rumors of deferal or being able to avoid donations for 3 years of you can prove your in love, Tommy begins attempting to create art to prove he is in love with Ruth to show madame. Then 10 years later Kathy is a carer, and Tommy and Ruth have begun donations. Kathy cares for Ruth after her 1st donation that did not go well, she feels her 2nd will be her last. They decided to go find Tommy and hear that Hailsham has been closed. Ruth reveals that her relationship with Tommy was to come between he and Kathy and to make things right gives them madame's address to try and receive a deferal. Kathy becomes Tommy's carer beginning their romantic relationship and they go to find madame. She is with the headmistress and they find that Hailsham was a failed attempt to prove that clones had souls and that was why art was encouraged, she also tells them that clones cannot gain deferal through being in love. Tommy is upset and confused by this news, Kathy simply accepts it, the story ends with Tommy reaching "completion" and Kathy beginning her donations that will lead to completion as well.
2. I feel like the theme is "what makes us human?" Is it love? The ability to create something that reveals the soul? 
3." I've developed a kind of instinct around donors. I know when to hang around and comfort them, when to leave them to themselves; when to listen to everything they have to say, and when just to shrug and tell them to snap out of it." ...

there and back again: a student's tale

This post has no depth to it other than to acknowledge my love for middle earth. "It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”- here's to you Bilbo!