‘Never Let Me’ go captures a secret truth about being a kid
Have you ever heard ofLaurie Dann?
A few students saw smoke crawling from the garbage, and a teacher extinguished it before anybody was hurt.
Dann also left poisoned brownies in the teachers lounge, but nobody ate them.
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Im pretty sure the teacher who put out the firebomb was our own second grade teacher, Mrs. Walsh.
Just like how Dr. Wentz was actually in the CIA.
We accepted these secret histories distilled through word-of-mouth and multiple generations unquestioningly as oddities of the adult world.
They produce art which is heavily emphasized in the curriculum.
Thats their purpose to grow up healthy, and then give their bodies away to others.
Unlike other dystopias,Never Let Me Gonever approaches its premise with a morality shaped in our world.
The teenage protagonist cannot see through the system because she has been created in the system.
Kathy has an understanding of what happens to the artwork that Madame takes on gallery days.
She knows the hidden lives of her teachers.
That hed also be able to break your heart is a foregone conclusion.
