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.

A Trip to the Zoo (Chapter 11/ Pages 153-171)

"It was John, then, they were all after."

~ Brave New World, page 156

In the novel, John is often called a Savage because of his previous life on the Indian Reservation. Everyone wants to see him, to observe his odd behavior and hear his blasphemous ideas. It's funny that they all call him a savage, as they would an animal, because they all treat him like an animal; he might as well be the zoo's new exhibit. And Bernard knows that he holds the key to that exhibit, so he uses John to gain social status.

However, it's also rather funny that they would be treating him like the animal. In a way, he is much more civilized than they are. John can utilize his human quality of restraint and self-denial, unlike the citizens who have been taught to act on instinct, impulse, and immediate gratification. So now who is the real animal?