Practice IOC

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Criterion A: I gave myself a 5 because I identified the basic context of the passage and author. I did not, however, identity any context of what was occurring in the time period in which The Handmaid's Tale was published in.

Criterion B: I gave myself a 4 because I talked about the effect of the literary techniques on the passage and the meaning, but I did not relate the effect to the reader.

Criterion C: I gave myself a 3 because my IOC was organized well enough to be mostly coherent, but I think that I could have done a better job of organizing the way I introduced each technique and how I described the passage as a whole.

Criterion D: I gave myself a 3 because my language was good, but it wasn't really elevated. I used sentence structure and tone to analyze the effect as well, but I could have gone more in-depth in my analysis.

Never Let Me Go Book Covers

The four covers of Never Let Me Go are similar in that each cover portrays a sense of solitude.

In the first cover, solitude is presented with the blonde woman sitting alone in a forest. Her head is turned to her left and she is staring intently at the ground. It seems like she is remembering past memories which is similar to the main character of the novel, Kathy.

The second cover has a blurry image of a woman. The woman appears to be dancing by herself, which could be why the image of the woman appears blurry. The third cover presents solitude in nature. There is one boat on an empty lake. Also, the muted, neutral colors used further emphasize solitude. The final book cover shows the torso of a human body and a faded picture of trees in the background.

One difference that stands out is that each of the covers uses different colors to create contrasting moods. For example, vibrant colors such as blue and yellow are used on the second book cover and those colors signify joy and youth, while a poignant mood is created from the dark blues used in the last cover.

This cover seems to present Kathy’s perspective in the novel. Never Let Me Go is written in Kathy’s point of view, and throughout most of the novel, she is remembering past memories of Hailsham, the Cottages, and her life as a carer. This cover shows a young woman sitting alone in the forest, and like Kathy, she appears to be deep in thought and remembering past memories.

This cover illustrates the reality of the clones at Hailsham. In the text, Miss Lucy is one of the few guardians that disagree with the way Hailsham is run. In fact, she continuously tells the students the truth about who they really are. An example of this is when Miss Lucy tells the students that they are “special. So keeping yourselves well, keeping yourselves very healthy inside, that's much more important for each of you than it is for me” (Ishiguro 68-69). Miss Lucy emphasizes the importance of good health for the clones because once they graduate from the Cottages, they become donors. The students are not completely aware that becoming donors is their only fate, however with Miss Lucy’s statement, they are given a glimpse of their reality as clones.