Why they are different!

Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro

The cloned sheep Dolly

Throughout the novel, the reader develops many questions to which Kathy hints at the answer but never explicitly gives the answer. One such question is, "Why are the students from Hailsham different from the guardians and people outside the school grounds". Throughout the beginning of the novel, Kathy mentioned the path for Hailsham students to become donors and carers. She also mentioned that maintaining their health was extremely important and that activities like smoking were more detrimental to the students at Hailsham than their guardians. "...keeping ourselves very healthy inside, that's much more important for each of you than it is for me" (Ishiguro, 69). By piecing this information together, the reader can infer that the students must be healthy because they will grow up to donate their organs. But this still does not take into account why all of the student's at Hailsham are unable to have children. Now, halfway through the novel, we learn that the that the students from Hailsham and other similar schools are clones. "Since each of us was copied at some point from a normal person, there must be, for each of us, somewhere out there, a model getting on with his or her life" (Ishiguro, 139). This explanation, although still not using the term 'clone', takes into account the pieces of information regarding the students' isolation, health, and career paths. Despite learning why the students are different from the rest of the world, readers still have questions about the students. Do the students only donate to their possible? Would the student be free to live as they pleased if their possible died without needing a transplant? Could the students figure out who their possible's are and how their possible could avoid needing a transplant?

Is this discovery that the students are clones the climax of the story?