Throughout the creation of each of my blog posts I have analyzed Kathy and Ruth’s friendship in Never Let Me Go. Through my object analysis, timeline and map I have dove into many important interactions between the friends, and how each interaction affected their relationship. More specifically, I discussed how the friendship changed as their class at Hailsham moved locations from Hailsham, to The Cottages, and beyond. Each post articulated my ideas in different ways and helped express my thoughts to my audience. The object analysis introduced the friendship between Kathy and Ruth to the audience, and how their interaction with the pencil case showed the relationship that they have throughout the book. The timeline includes this interaction, along with others that go more in-depth into this confusing and complex friendship. In my opinion, the timeline captures my project the best out of the three posts. The timeline really puts Kathy and Ruth’s friendship into a visual story that helps the audience the most. The map is similar, with similar points made. However, the map gives a more distance oriented approach to showing the information. It does this by going from Hailsham, to The Cottages and then to Ruth’s recovery center. It shows the distance between each event which helps visualize the distance between Kathy and Ruth as the book goes on. Each location brings out a new side of the friendship, which was really interesting to see visualized like that. All three of these posts have created a digital afterlife for the novel Never Let Me Go, as well as my thoughts on the story. Each of my classmates’ blog posts, as well as my own, will be on the internet forever. This is what we like to call a digital afterlife, because we may move on from these ideas but they will be digital on the internet for anyone else to read forever. I think this is very important because the work that we have all done in this class is really important to Never Let Me Go, and to the digital afterlife of the book itself. The author, Kazuo Ishiguro, wrote this novel and now we are all able to have our own interpretations of the text. That is something that is so important about digital work as well as non-digital work, and how the two are able to interact. Physical works, such as books, will stay as they are forever. It is similar to digital works, but digital works are able to be changed and revised as we learn. The digital afterlife creates an afterlife for the physical book, as well, through analysis and discussion. In my eyes, that was the purpose of these blog posts. As well as creating this digital afterlife, through these blog posts I have learned new skills that I will hold with me as I continue my Digital Humanities studies, and after college. Learning these digital skills is more important now than ever for the world that we are entering for any profession. While these new digital skills are really important for deeply understanding texts, this blog project cannot capture all aspects of the friendship between Kathy and Ruth. I cannot include every conversation between the friends, or fully understand what Ishiguro was trying to say when creating their friendship. There will always be more analysis that is able to be done, and Ishiguro might not agree with my ideas at all. But that is the beauty of everyone making their own blogs with different approaches to Never Let Me Go. We all have different ideas and thoughts about every character, and I have loved creating this project and looking at everyone else’s.