The entire premise of Ishiguro's narrator's life (and the lives of her friends and
classmates) is based on lies and deceit. Kathy, the narrator, is part of a group of young people
who are basically bred to donate their organs to others. They are educated together and told
lies and misinformation about the outside world as they gradually become aware of the horrific
truth.
Kathy only reveals the truth of her and her classmates' roles
gradually over the course of the novel, as she narrates in retrospect as an adult. She thinks
back to her time at Hailsham, the school where she and her best friends, Tommy and Ruth, grow
up. Kathy does tell us at the start that she is a "carer," but we don't understand the
context of that term until later in the novel. As the students attend Hailsham, they notice some
mysterious details, such as the odd artwork requirement and the strange behavior of Miss Lucy, a
teacher who seems to know things that she cannot share with her students. There is also
a...
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