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Miss Lucy’s Christian Perspective about Humanity as It Regards

Human Dignity, Genuine Compassion and Child Education

In the novel Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro’s Miss Lucy serves as a foil to Miss Emily because she feels that it is unjust to deceive or shelter cloned organ donors from the realities behind their experimental boarding school education. Unlike Miss Emily, Miss Lucy trusted her own feelings and emotions of love and respect while Miss Emily was equally determined to deny her emotions for Hailsham clone orphans. Miss Lucy’s values and spirituality contrasts directly with Miss Emily’s seemingly rational justifications to artificially create and domesticate some humans explicitly for the medical benefits of their genetic cell donors.

Ishiguro develops both characters by periodically including bits of narration and dialogue in progressing chapters to slowly reveal the truths which most Hailsham guardians hide and distort to manipulate their students. For example, in chapter 6 when Marge asked Miss Lucy a question about smoking cigarettes Miss Lucy replied honestly that is was not good that she had smoked. Miss Lucy replied, “It wasn’t good for me so I stopped it. But what you must understand is that for you, all of you, it’s much, much worse to smoke than it ever was for me” (Ishiguro, 68). Miss Lucy clarifies that clones have different expectations for maintaining their health because their organs will need to be used for transplants. Another example of Miss Lucy’s transparency in Chapter 6 is when she allows her students to compare themselves to WWII prisoners in camps which were surrounded by electrical fences. Miss Lucy, quite unlike other guardians, expressed her sincere concerns about “accidents” or suicides provoked by student emotional distress. Ishiguro weaves his novel carefully to gradually reveal how the long-term effects of emotional oppression and physio–racial discrimination damage what would be normally loving relationships among clone students. He assigns Miss Lucy specific viewpoints primarily as they relate to student’s questions and reveals that Miss Lucy’s opinions could easily reflect artificial creation underground resistance. For example, Ishiguro reveals Miss Lucy’s leaving Hailsham in Chapter 9 without telling us why. Only later in Chapter 22 when Tommy interviews a retired Miss Emily (Ishiguro, 267) do the readers discover the truth about Madame’s art gallery. In other words, Miss Lucy’s role in the plot development was specifically to give readers hopeful clues about which Hailsham myths were rational or irrational. Student created myths appeared true or false to the students as they matured socially and emotionally. Unlike other guardians who simply calmed student rebellions with manipulative lies, Miss Lucy cultivated student curiosity and questions for example on page 40, Miss Lucy answers Polly’s questions about the need for rules at Hailsham without any offense by saying “All I can tell you today is that it’s for a good reason. A very important reason. But if I tried to explain it to you now, I don’t think you’d understand. One day, I hope, it’ll be explained to you” (Ishiguro, 40). Miss Lucy refuses to treat curious students with rejection.