Never Let Me Go- Blog 3, Part 4

A big mystery that is solved in Part 4 of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, is the art from the students at Hailsham. Why where they required to do art? Why was that art taken away? These were some of the questions that everyone had throughout the book, especially the characters in the story that were from Hailsham. There was a lot of talk about it among the students. When Tommy and Kath had one of their venting sessions, there was talk that maybe they took away their art to prove two people in love. We find out from Miss Emily, a former guardian at Hailsham, that the truth is that they took away their art because "we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all" (Ishiguro, 260). As we all know, all these characters, apart from the guardians, were clones. People would obviously believe that these clones did not have a soul, but indeed the art proved that they did. They were able to show that these people were ordinary people who had souls, although cloned.