In the novel Never Let Me Go, do the guardians feel any sympathy for the children? How is lying to someone protecting them?

The guardians in are not all the same and have different
attitudes to the clones in their care. Miss Lucy is obviously the most sympathetic of them and
her sympathy leads her to be honest and tell her charges that their organs will be harvested and
they will die young. She is dismissed for this honesty and the clones do nothing to help her, a
fate which may well discourage others who might have been considering a similar
course.

Adults frequently lie to children to protect them, but the
relationship between the guardians and the clones at Hailsham is not precisely that of teachers
and students. The clones are there for the benefit of society, and while the more humane
guardians may want to do the best they can for them within the constraints of this dystopian
society, they are ultimately there to die so that others can live. This means that the guardians
are actually more like farmers looking after animals that will one day be killed.

There are brutal farmers who abuse...