What We Have Learned

"'And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heard could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go'" (Never Let Me Go, 272).

Reading books is kind of pointless unless you learn anything, so take it away, French Peas!

• Structure in life is important, but predestination dehumanizes.
• To an extent, we are all sheltered and should be aware of the mystery of the outside world.
• The past is a healthy thing upon which we can reflect.
• Human dignity should trump scientific achievement.
• Though they aren't always obvious, there are good thing in this world; we should hold on to them and make sure we never have to lose them.

I could deal with the cover of Brave New World -- a guy with a mechanical torso -- no problem. But the cover of Never Let Me Go is kind of scary for me, and I've noticed that I tend to set the book upside down after I read a portion of it. I'm assuming it's a really, really close-up picture of Kathy. For the most part, it's just a huge face, and I wanted to find something interesting in it, but it's just a huge face. There's a light reflected in her right eye that looks like a life saver or a Froot Loop. It's probably just a light.