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The use of analepsis and prolepsis in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro is a novel which contains flashbacks and flash-forwards. The narrator makes use of this literary device to tell her life story. One can distinguish three main reasons to why the narrator resorts to such chronology to construct her story. In Never Let Me Go the use of flashbacks and flash-forwards is adopted by the narrator for different reasons : (i) for the purpose of storytelling, (ii) for creating suspense, and (iii) for the purpose of character development. The primary reason for the use of flashbacks and flash-forwards is for the purpose of storytelling. The narrator tells her story while she reminisces back on her life and goes through her memories. In order to construct her story, she uses flashbacks and flashforwards. However, the use of analepsis for the purpose of storytelling is more prominent. For instance, part I of the novel is mostly told in flashbacks. The use of analepsis and prolepsis for creating suspense is another significant reason. The narrator constantly withholds information in order to give it away in the future. She sometimes tells the reader about a certain future event, but then she jumps to another subject without telling the crucial part. The reader is left with curiosity until she gives away the rest of her secret. She uses analepsis and prolepsis in two ways. The narrator will talk about a past event without giving too many details and why this event is so important. Later on in the novel she uses a flashback to when she told this event and then she finally gives away, why and how this event or piece of information is crucial in her story as in illustrated in the following prolepsis, “The topic of the gallery, though, still cropped up every once in a while, so that when a few years later Tommy started telling me beside the point about this odd talk with Miss Lucy, I found something tugging away at my memory. “(p. 37) and analepsis, “That’s why that afternoon by the pond, when Tommy was telling me about his talk with Miss Lucy, about how she’d said to him we weren’t being ‘taught enough’ about some things, the memory of that time in the library - along with maybe one or two other little episodes like that - started tugging at my mind. “ (p. 41) At other times the narrator makes use of a flash-forward to voice she will tell this or that particular story instead of giving away the information straight away. The reader is again left with curiosity until the whole story is revealed. For example, the narrator Kathy H was looking through porn pages and Tommy wants to know why she is doing this. She does not say at that moment why she was doing this, ‘‘I did tell him eventually, but that wasn’t until a few months later, when we went on our Norfolk trip.” (p. 135) Lastly, the use of flash-forward and notably flash-back is for the purpose of character development. The narrator uses flashbacks to explain certain character’s reasons, actions, and emotions. This can be illustrated with the example of why nobody from the students asked why it is worse for them to smoke than it is for the guardians while they were dying to know, “So why had we stayed silent that day? I suppose it was – because even at that age – we were nine or ten – we knew just enough to make us wary of that whole territory.” (p. 69) To conclude, the narrator makes use of the literary devices analepsis and prolepsis for the purpose of storytelling, for creating suspense, and for the purpose of character development. The purpose of creating suspense is very significant and moves the plot. Information and secrets are exposed piece by piece throughout the book, which holds the reader’s attention....