English Reading Journal3 ,L,吳冠英

It's a shame that i started my English reading just at last week.

It's too late and also impratical to find or make any excause for myself.

The book that I chose to be my reading task is a novel named "Never let me go" writen by Kazuo Ishiguro.

The name of the book " Never let me go" usually make peaple associated with some sentimental stories or something romantic,

but actually it is a science fiction contains literary components.

The autor "Kazuo Ishiguro",a Japanese-British writor who won the Booker Prize in 1989 with his previous novel "The remains of the

day",try hard to convey the central issue of the free will through this novel and pondered it by every charactors in the story.

The novel describes the childhood of Kathy H, a young woman of 31, focusing at first on her youth at an unusual boarding school and

eventually, her adult life. The story takes place in a dystopian britain, in which human beings are cloned to provide donor organs for

transplants. Kathy and her classmates have been created to be donors, though the adult Kathy is temporarily working as a "carer,"

someone who supports and comforts donors as they are made to give up their organs and, eventually, submit to death.

"above excerpt from the introduction of the book"

The novel can be divided into three parts, chronicling the three phases of the lives of its main characters

I have completed the chapter1,2 and 3 already.

The begenning of the story is set at Hailsham, a boarding school where the children are brought up and educated. The teachers there

mysteriously encourage the students to produce various forms of art. The best works are chosen by a woman known only as Madame

and are said to be collected in a gallery. That Hailsham is not a normal school is also indicated by the emphasis on frequent medical

checks and other odd details.

The story is very charming to me , it aroused my curiosity and keeping me to read it as a before-sleeping job.