Cloning can be argued strongly for and equally strongly against, and the reason it is such a controversial topic is due to the moral implications. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro brought the idea of cloning to the surface as it's plot revolves around clones themselves. This novel got me thinking about many different concepts revolving cloning. I think one of the main issues in Never Let Me Go was that the clones were treated as clones with a specific purpose rather than people with free will, when really, they are people. Identical twins are essentially clones of each other, though there personalities are often completely opposite. Personality cannot be cloned, so even if the clone looks as sound like the "original", or as stated in Never Let Me Go, the "possible", they are still their own person. Even identical twins, raised in the same family, experiencing the same events in life, still have different personalities because though personality is shaped by experience, the same event can be experienced differently by different people.

When it comes to cloning, I personally believe that it is not morally "wrong", so long that the clone is treated as their own person, and not as a clone "created" for a specific purpose. There is research being done with regards to cloning one parent so that a couple may have a child that is at least biologically related to one of them. Children often look quite similar to one parent, and since personality cannot be cloned, this is not much different than having a child by traditional means.

I found Never Let Me Go an easy read due to the way it is written in such an easy to relate manner, and reminds me of a friend telling their story. Not only was it this writing fashion that made this novel to easy to get through, but because I found the topic so interesting, I seemed to be whipping through the pages and only afterward would notice how much of it I had completed. Speaking of "completed", something I found notable in Never Let Me Go was the fact that Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy talked about people they knew that had "completed" after their second donation. "...I heard about Chrissie. I heard she completed during her second donation" (pg. 205). In this context, "completed", for them, means "died". I found this extremely interesting. Their view on life is that after they give their four donations, and will thereby pass away, they have completed what they were created to do.