Gone to ashes and earth
...eolithic bodies that he's been dreaming about during the digging. He is connected to those others, so he doesn't want anyone else to have to be a clone. This fiction looks like a story about clone, but actually it is about identity. Identity is a very important character of a person, or maybe identity is not just only a character, it somehow represents an existence of a human being in this world. The web definition of identity is the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known (http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn?stage=1&word=identity). Everybody in this world has to be having some kind of thing called identity, no matter what their forms would be. Brendan is a clone. That is why he mentions the “guy” in the freezer, looks like a fishstick, is his father or himself. “You see, the old fishstick there isn’t really my dad. He’s me. Or maybe I’m him.” (Page 24) clone is an identical copy of a living species. Being a clone in this world, especially human clone, actually is a substitute of the original. There is not any identical identity in this world until the clone was invented. However, nobody would accept that such two people in the world are sharing one identity. There are many debates nowadays around the issue whether clone is ethic or not. Brendan is confusing about his own identity. He feels like he is himself, having something for himself, but at the same he is sharing everything with the “fishstick”. Brendan went to a lot of places, like Dublin, Stockholm, and Vienna and so on, and he is so interested in digging. But why he gave up his school and graduation and went on traveling? Why went on a digging job? In fact, Brendan...