Being a part of a bandwagon can seem pleasing to a person at the time, helping that person fit in. However, straying away from the crowd shows individuality. Pretending can grow tiresome where individuals do as they please. Many authors have written about the true meaning of individualism and the traits that come along in their work.
In the novel, Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro wrote about a clone, Kathy, and her life growing up at the school of Hailsham and the impact it had on her. Throughout the story many emotions are expressed. Passion and love contributed to her individuality. Tommy was a misfit for many years of his youth and would be teased till he threw a tantrum. Even when she knew it was socially wrong, she still befriended …show more content…
Miss Emily, a guardian, and Madame were both founders of the school. They had created the school to give more of a purpose and life to the clones. Before they had come along, the students only existed for the sole purpose of medical science. However, once schools such as Hailsham opened, knowledge gave them more meaning. With this education, they became more than just lab rats. “There would always be a barrier against seeing you as properly human,” Miss Emily told Tommy and Kathy while explaining how much their education had provided them.(263) Since they were educated, it made them more human like and more excepted by the world. Moreover, theories were often being made up by Kathy and Tommy at a younger age. Both had been curious about who and what they really were, leading to them having discussions about events and that had occurred to them. More than anything, they were skeptical about the importance of their art work. This caused them to be observant, wanting to learn and be the first to figure everything out. “I’d been so engrossed in Tommy’s story, I’d forgotten my reason for having this talk,” Kathy claimed to the reader, showing how they both enjoy stimulating their brain with different ideas.(109) Education makes someone an individual by giving them the opportunity to think for themselves, supplying their own opinions and …show more content…
In a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron is living in 2081, a world where everyone is equal, and becomes a well known fugitive. Due to his strength and height, he has to wear weights tied onto his body. Since he is intelligent, he was given an aid that sends sound waves every twenty seconds, and also has shaved eyebrows and a red ball on his nose to make him ugly. It was described that there was a “military neatness to the handicaps issued to strong people, but Harrison looked like a walking junkyard.”(11) Harrison shows individuality by not being bound to what everyone else is. His refusal to be stripped from who he is, no matter the price, causes him to rip all of his restrictions off on live television. Harrison knew that he was capable of greater things than he was allowed. “Now watch me become what I can become!” he had declared on television. (12) With such great restrictions, it made him, as an individual, even more curious to see who he really could
In the novel, Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro wrote about a clone, Kathy, and her life growing up at the school of Hailsham and the impact it had on her. Throughout the story many emotions are expressed. Passion and love contributed to her individuality. Tommy was a misfit for many years of his youth and would be teased till he threw a tantrum. Even when she knew it was socially wrong, she still befriended …show more content…
Miss Emily, a guardian, and Madame were both founders of the school. They had created the school to give more of a purpose and life to the clones. Before they had come along, the students only existed for the sole purpose of medical science. However, once schools such as Hailsham opened, knowledge gave them more meaning. With this education, they became more than just lab rats. “There would always be a barrier against seeing you as properly human,” Miss Emily told Tommy and Kathy while explaining how much their education had provided them.(263) Since they were educated, it made them more human like and more excepted by the world. Moreover, theories were often being made up by Kathy and Tommy at a younger age. Both had been curious about who and what they really were, leading to them having discussions about events and that had occurred to them. More than anything, they were skeptical about the importance of their art work. This caused them to be observant, wanting to learn and be the first to figure everything out. “I’d been so engrossed in Tommy’s story, I’d forgotten my reason for having this talk,” Kathy claimed to the reader, showing how they both enjoy stimulating their brain with different ideas.(109) Education makes someone an individual by giving them the opportunity to think for themselves, supplying their own opinions and …show more content…
In a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron is living in 2081, a world where everyone is equal, and becomes a well known fugitive. Due to his strength and height, he has to wear weights tied onto his body. Since he is intelligent, he was given an aid that sends sound waves every twenty seconds, and also has shaved eyebrows and a red ball on his nose to make him ugly. It was described that there was a “military neatness to the handicaps issued to strong people, but Harrison looked like a walking junkyard.”(11) Harrison shows individuality by not being bound to what everyone else is. His refusal to be stripped from who he is, no matter the price, causes him to rip all of his restrictions off on live television. Harrison knew that he was capable of greater things than he was allowed. “Now watch me become what I can become!” he had declared on television. (12) With such great restrictions, it made him, as an individual, even more curious to see who he really could