Who Knew Numbers Could Be So Exciting? (Chapter 11/ Pages 126-137)

"She was struggling to become someone else, and maybe felt the pressure more than the rest of us because, as I say, she'd somehow taken on the responsibility for all of us... I never appreciated in those days the sheer effort Ruth was making to move on, to grow up and leave Hailsham behind."

~ Never Let Me Go, page 130

In this chapter, Kathy and her friends find it difficult to adapt to their new home. All they've known is Hailsham, and now they are thrown out into the real world to start working. It's always hard to move away; many people experience this in their lives somehow or another, and they have problems adjusting to their new lives. The characters in Never Let Me Go struggle to assume their new responsibilities.

A similar situation occurs in the book-turned-movie I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore. The novel is about Four, a boy from another planet with special abilities who is being hunted down by a rival alien group. They kill each person in succession according to his or her number. Once One, Two, and Three are killed, Four must relocate from Florida to Paradise, Ohio and take on a new identity, John Smith. He has difficulty adjusting to his new life like Kathy and her friends.