![]() ![]() However, most of the interpersonal situations that crop up are fairly believable, typical adolescent scenarios, and tween and teen readers may identify with the central characters. ![]() The author introduces a host of invented, unnatural roles: students, guardians, careers, and donors, and slowly reveals what these labels mean. ![]() Parents need to know that Never Let Me Go is set in a highly disturbing sci-fi reality in which young people try to make sense of their relationships and an increasingly hopeless world. Students trade "tokens" for items they find in "sales." Within this context, the students place a high value on certain possessions, which they collect and display. The sci-fi world of Never Let Me Go, particularly at the Hailsham boarding school, has its own strange economic system. ![]()
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