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Originally Posted by orlok
What I did not expect was the mild acquiescence. Yes, it felt a bit sad, but when the characters don’t seem to feel strongly about the unfairness they face, how can the reader really get invested?
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One almost wonders if Ishiguro meant to imply that something about the cloning process resulted in passivity, as if the clone, while being an exact genetic match, still lacked some vivifying element present in the original. But this was one of the issues for me and others, that he didn't seem to have a firm grasp on his world or at least didn't convey it satisfactorily. I don't like to have everything spelled out for me (and I loathed the info dump at the end), but I need the sense that the author has created a consistent and coherent world.
One thing that occurred to me that I don't think has been mentioned is to what extent the clones might accept their destiny because that is how they got a life at all? That the good moments might justify their dreadful destiny?