Free will is the ability to do as you please and setup your future as you want. This is the dream of all people not to be controlled by anyone but follow your dreams and do as you please. For the students in Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro they do not have these luxuries as they are confined within the walls of Hailsham. They are given no interaction with the rest of the world and are told how to act and what they can watch, listen and do.
“Your lives are set out for you. You’ll become adults, then before you’re old, before you’re even middle-aged, you’ll start to donate your vital organs. That’s what each of you was created to do. You’re not like the actors you watch on your videos, you’re not even like me. You were brought into this world for a purpose, and your futures, all of them, have been decided.” (Ishiguro 81)
These kids have no choice they were created and formed in a lab being formed by their teachers into what they should be, controlled by every step of their life. These kids are told not to smoke only for the fact they are to be used as replacement parts and that if they are damaged goods they are of no use anymore.
I believe that Ishiguro uses this book to show we may have certain futures set for us never follow along to always follow your dream in that you are in control of your own destiny. We have the ability to think and do for ourselves possible the greatest gift possible and we should not let it go to waste following others.
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