Never Let Me Go Section 2

On various occasions in section two, Kathy claims that they had been "told but not told".  I perceived this as they were told but not necessarily taught about what they were told meant.  Therefore, it was evident that they would not be able to fully understand or grasp the gravity of the situation.  Even at this point, they still do not really understand their clones/possibles.  They only ever whispered about the subject.  They knew their moving into the Cottages was imminent, yet they still are unknowledgeable of what life there will be like.  "When I think about it, there's a sense in which that picture of us on that first day, huddled together in front of the farmhouse, isn't so incongruous after all....Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and--no matter how much we despised ourselves for it--unable quite to let each other go" (Ishiguro, 120).  This is what makes the point of view from which this story is told so interesting.  As well as the narrator and the point of view from which the story is told, Kathy is also one of the children.  However, her understanding of the world around her characterizes her as different.  Nothing ever comes as much of a surprise to her; therefore, it seems she has a sense that the other children lack.  She almost has this omniscient quality about her that sets her apart especially from Tommy and Ruth.  She never seems to be actively trying to please others like they do; she just exists in the world in which she has been placed.