In his book Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro gradually builds a story that progressively gets more dystopian and shocking as pages turn. Ishiguro tells his story through the lens of Kathy, a girl raised in a privileged environment in the 1990s tweaked version of England. He seems to portray a marginalized group of, yet surprisingly privileged kids, at least among their kind. Their kind, of course, refers to clones which takes a while for the reader to find out. Kathy, the main character lives in an institution that is raising Kathy and her friends to be obedient units to be exploited by the ˝real people˝ outside the walls of their prison. It is somewhat morbid that the children are not questioning the institution, even until their late teens, and assume that their guardians want the best for them.

This story connects to globalization in that way that it dehumanizes and exploits its characters. People are portrayed as intrinsically worthless, and replaceable with only a few characteristics that allow us to connect to them. Similarly, workers in many industries that are running the often ˝invisible˝ parts of globalization are treated as an input to the system that produces goods and services. People are often seen as disposable and replaceable, something to be exploited. The workers and the children have many parallels. They seem to be brainwashed into their function, to the point where they do not question their position within the system. Nevertheless, Ishiguro adds very human values to the children and makes them personable by telling the story from their perspective. He wants to emphasize that, although treated as disposable; they still are able to produce

Kazuo Ishiguro’s stylistic approach is very eccentric. His main character/narrator Kathy has the tendency to, almost in a schizophrenic manner, skip from one story to another, from one time period to another. These tangents are a crucial part of storytelling, and many of the stories do create a really coherent whole. One stylistic approach that is strange is that the build-up and the character development is relatively slow, and it takes over 100 pages for the reader to understand that the main character is artificially created.