Blog entry #18 Never Let Me Go

"We'd been thinking about the deferrals, the theory about the Gallery, all of it, for so long-and now, suddenly, here we were." page 244

Here, the author creates suspense. The author creates this suspense to get the reader to read on. I think it is especially suspenseful because now, the reader will get to know the truth about things mentioned so early in the book. The author strategically placed the quote above at the end of the book. This greatens the suspense. The gallery and deferrals have been alluded to many times, at all periods in the book, so not revealing the truth about them makes them all the more mysterious, and therefore the suspense is greater when we finally approach their revelation. I believe mystery is a key part of the novel. Why was Hailsham shut down? Who are the characters cloned from? How many clones are there? Are clones in Manu other counties?