Ruth mentions that everybody knows their originals are drug addicts and sex industry workers. Generally seedy types. Why?
Surely it would make more sense to clone them from healthy humans? Or is this to further press on the matter of their being treated as 'sub-human' in society?
I thought Ruth had only inferred they were modelled from seedy types. She was pretty upset when she saw that her "possible" looked nothing like her.
I imagined that the scientists would use some kind of screening procedure when they clone a person. They would prefer someone who is physically healthy. For example, in the real world when a person donates blood they have to answer a questionaire. It asks if the donor has ever used drugs, worked in the sex industry etc.
The clones in Never Let Me Go were probably modelled on ordinary, anonymous individuals. These people were possibly paid to submit some genetic material, but they wouldn't have had to be straight from the gutter. Whoever the clones are modelled from, I suspect they wouldn't be anyone too high up the social ladder. There wouldn't be any clones of celebrities, for instance. The clones are anonymous, modelled from originals who are equally anonymous.
Exactly. "We're modeled on trash!" is a bitter outburst.
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Ruth seemed to need to have a high thought of her self.Why she took Tommy from Kathy, she thought she was better then the others not seeing her possible was not easy for her it seemed in a way that if she did meet her possible they might have wanted her and not her for transplants. Being modeled on trash was more of a way to deal with things.
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If you have a disease, or do drugs, or are in certain other ways unhealthy, then you can't give blood. But you could give your genes - those aren't affected by your health. (At least, that is what was believed when this book was written.) The only thing I'd worry about is whether traits such as a propensity toward drug addiction is genetic, in which case, a clone would inherit that propensity.
I thought they used "seedy" types (assuming that was true) because they were the most powerless in society, with the fewest resources, and would probably not be able to find their clone(s) or do anything about it if they did. Imagine how you'd feel if you discovered a clone of yourself, about to be harvested for his/her body parts. I'd think that would be pretty upsetting. You couldn't have a bunch of educated, middle-class people getting upset about the short, tormented lives their clones were living - that might cause problems for the program. But who's going to listen to a bunch of prostitutes and drug addicts?
I think the point is that most people in their right minds would hate to have clone of them walking around to run into themselves or knowing their clone bodies would be butchered up and passed around.
What I took from it is that these people volunteered to be cloned and got paid for it, so most of the people who did it were desperate because they were poor people or low-lifes that needed the money for their habits.
I feel like it can be compared to contemporary society, how so many people are desperate enough to sell their bodies, their precious belongings and give their children up because they'd rather lead a selfish life. If we have people that do this stuff now, if we had cloning, people would certainly be willing to sacrifice the sanctity of their body and DNA for a bit of cash.
Would have been more interesting if Ruth ACTUALLY DID run into her original. I guess we (the audience) were suppose to share her disappointment when the lady in the bank turned around, but it could have been a powerful scene of a clone confronting her original.
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