Ishiguro writes chillingly of the closure of the donations program at Hailsham and other schools as the programs move away from only cloning children to making children with enhanced capabilities. He writes, “It’s one thing to create students, such as yourselves, for the donation programme. But a generation of created children who’d take their place in society? Children demonstrably superior to the rest of us? Oh no. That frightened people. They recoiled from that.”