Humanity

Ishiguro deliberately makes the reader empathize with their situation by the humanization of the clones. They have individual interests, beliefs and values that every human has. Ruth even imagines her future career, “Ruth began telling us about the sort of office she'd ideally work in, and I immediately recognised it. She went into all the details—the plants, the gleaming equipment, the chairs with their swivels and castors—and it was so vivid everyone let her talk uninterrupted for ages.” (Ishiguro 103). Ruth’s dream to live a normal life is an aspiration shared by many, including myself. However, this desire is even stronger for her because she will never get it in her situation. In our world, we are free to follow our dreams and chase ambition. They are forced to live a life without purpose: to be seen as objects and not people with feelings or thought. This helps solidify the clones as the victims of society's cruel experiment in the eyes of the reader.

Kathy and Tommy’s relationship also concludes as evidence of the clones’ humanity, “And so we stood together like that, at the top of the field, for what seemed like ages, not saying anything, just holding each other, while the wind kept blowing and blowing at us, tugging our clothes, and for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us being swept away into the night” (Ishiguro 274). Kathy and Tommy’s efforts to comfort each other prove that they can love and that they can be loved. Love is a defining factor of what it means to be a human being and their relationship helps erase the gap between clones and humans. Again and again, Ishiguro continues to include these intimate moments between characters of friendship and romance to indicate the clones’ ability to have feelings and have close connections with others. His purposeful additions to the novel allows the audience to feel indignant at how society treats clones and dig into the injustices that they suffer. This could very much apply to the world we live in today, as many injustices happen to people around the world and no one does anything. Ishiguro humanizes these clones to speak of society’s lack of response to how “outcasts” are treated.