Mark answers “Can anyone explain me why didn't they all...”

Jamila Huseynova asked this question about Never Let Me Go:

Can anyone explain me why didn't they all run away from that place? Because I could not figure out that part.

Mark You have to take this book as an allegory on life. Let me put it this way to you. Look at your life. You were born and after a childhood of a mere fif…moreYou have to take this book as an allegory on life. Let me put it this way to you. Look at your life. You were born and after a childhood of a mere fifteen years or so, you start preparing yourself for a life of employment, that means at least forty of the best years of your life going to work practically every day, day in day out with few occasional breaks. By which time your in your sixties, your body is starting to fail, and you spend the last few years of your brief life (provided you are still alive) in retirement, at last with enough time to do what you always wanted to do but in a body that is no longer able to do it....
So, now I ask you the question you just asked. Why don't you run away! (less)

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