> yet they are all accepting (perhaps that is too strong) or passive. No volition to change the status quo. The DVD of the film adaptation of Never Let Me Go h

> yet they are all accepting (perhaps that is too strong) or passive. No volition to change the status quo. The DVD of the film adaptation of Never Let Me Go has an interesting interview with Ishiguro. In it, he mentions that he is often asked about why the Students were so passive and accepting of their fate. From memory, he says that the book is allegorical: the students are no more able the escape their kind of mortality than we are of our (different) outcome. Nobody can escape from their own life.