Essay Plan Norfolk

Question 1

Intro

Answer 1

Norfolk trip is a deeply significant moment. Clones deep emotional investment, seeking to gain insight into future and identity, but leave with disappointment. Recurring place, where clones find a Nostalgia and time to bond on trip.

Question 2

Quotes on relationships

Answer 2

• I just said to myself, one day I’ll go to Norfolk, and I’ll find it there for her.
• I feel a warmth welling up through me…it was like suddenly every cloud has blown away

Question 3

Quotes on humanity/self-worth

Answer 3

• “look in the gutter. You look in rubbish bins. Look down the toilet”
• Do you think she’d have talked to us like that if she knew what we really were?…she’d have thrown us out
• “We all know it. We’re modelled from trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps.”

Question 4

Quotes on future - deferrals

Answer 4

• “watched her like they were hypnotised” (R&C defferals)
• if ….you were in love with each other, really, properly in love, and if you could show it, then the people who run Hailsham, they sorted it out for you.
• “you Hailsham lot, you’re really lucky” “that’s Hailsham for you”
• “the woman was too close, much closer than we’d ever really wanted.”

Question 5

Quotes on the returning to the Past

Answer 5

• we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts
• “like a fantasy land” “The lost corner of England”

Question 6

Quotes on identity/possibles

Answer 6

“you’d get some insight into who you were deep down… you’d see something of what your life held in store.”

• “People were fascinated - obsessed in some cases”
• “They reckon this person’s a possible.”
• “noticed her eyes moving anxiously around the faces behind the glass”
• “A bit of fun for you maybe…thank you for your profound contribution”