Key Quotations

Question 1

Kathy’s caring nature/ Kathy as a mother figure

Answer 1

‘Tommy’s got his shirt on. His favourite polo shirt … He’s going to be so sick if he ruins that shirt’ (1)
‘ So I reached forward and put a hand on his arm’ (1)

Question 2

Tommy as childlike

Answer 2

‘ Then he began to scream and shout, a nonsensical jumble of swear words and insults’ (1)
’Mad animal’ (1)

Question 3

Creativity

Answer 3

‘ How Tommy never even tried to be creative’ (1)

Question 4

Kathy as an unreliable narrator

Answer 4

’I might have some of it wrong’ (2)

Question 5

Ruth as leader/ one in charge

Answer 5

‘ Everyone was waiting for Ruth’s response’ (2)

’ Ruth had been right: Madame was afraid of us’ (3)

Question 6

Lack of privacy

Answer 6

‘ The lunch queue was one of the better places to have a private talk’ (2)

Question 7

Lack of identity

Answer 7

’Exchanges … were our only means … of building up a collection of personal possessions’ (2)

Question 8

Creativity

Answer 8

‘ How you were regarded at Hailsham … had to do with how good you were at ‘creating’ ’ (2)
‘ If I didn’t want to be creative … that was perfectly all right’ (2)

Question 9

Fear of clones

Answer 9

‘The shudder she seemed to be suppressing, the real dread that one of us would accidentally brush against her’ (3)
’Ruth was right: Madame was afraid of us. But she was afraid of us in the same way someone might be afraid of spiders’ (3)
’He -Keffer’s- didn’t like to talk to us much’ (10)

Question 10

Ruth not as dominant/ in charge as she seems

Answer 10

’Even Ruth looked really shaken’ (3)
’Now I saw how upset Ruth was; how for once she was at a complete loss for words, and had turned away on the verge of tears’ (5)
‘ You’re the only one I trust’ (9)
’Thank me for ’sorting it all out so well’’ (9)
‘ Even Ruth looked daunted’ (10)

Question 11

Loneliness

Answer 11

’A car was a rarity’ (3)

Question 12

Definitive difference between the clones and normal people

Answer 12

‘When you realise that you really are different to them’ (3)
‘ Your’e … special’ (6)
‘ We were different from our guardians, and also from the normal people outside’ (6)

Question 13

That they don’t know a lot

Answer 13

‘ We knew a few things about ourselves’ (3)

‘ You’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand’ (7)

Question 14

Ruth as superior/ dominant/ controlling

Answer 14

’Ruth was addressing only me. This absolutely delighted me, but I made a show of weighing her up before giving a reply’ (4)
‘ But you’re not to use your crop on him. And you’ve got to come now.’ (4)
’My best horse is Thunder … you can ride Bramble’ (4)
‘ I accepted the invisible rein she was holding out’ (4)
’I’ll let you be one of her secret guards’ (4)
‘ Thank me for ‘sorting it all out so well’’ (9)
‘ I noticed Ruth nodding with a lot of authority’ (13)
‘Ruth sighed and said: ’Well, they told us a few things, obviously’ ’ (13)

Question 15

Kathy as dominant(ish)

Answer 15

‘ This absolutely delighted me, but I made a show of weighing her up before giving a reply’ (4)

Question 16

Strict nature/ fear of Hailsham

Answer 16

‘ You felt dreadful, just knowing you’d fallen in her estimation’ (4)
’ Dreading the idea of her turning her gaze on me’ (4)

Question 17

Fear of Hailsham boundaries (lack of freedom)

Answer 17

‘ Dark fringe of trees, but I certainly wasn’t the only one of my age to feel their presence day and night’ (5)
’The woods played on our imaginations’ (5)
‘ Wire mesh boundary’ (4)

Question 18

Kathy as submissive to Ruth

Answer 18

‘ I accepted the invisible rein she was holding out’ (4)
’ I was really disappointed, but I made sure to say nothing and went along with her for a while’ (5)
‘ Panic coming over me … that I’d somehow let Ruth down’ (9)

Question 19

Clones have emotions

Answer 19

‘ Even today, I’m puzzled by the sheer force of emotion that overtook me’

Question 20

Lack of mother figure

Answer 20

’ Didn’t we all dream from time to time about one guardian or other bending the rules and doing something special for us? A spontaneous hug, a secret letter, a gift?’ (5)

Question 21

Ruth as caring/ thoughtful / friends with Kathy/ trusts Kathy

Answer 21

’Ruth had been looking out for something nice to do for me in return’ (6)
‘ You’re the only one I trust’ (9)
’We were confiding in each other more than ever’ (11)
‘ She seemed confident I wouldn’t give her away. And of course, I didn’t’ (12)
’Ruth was getting people to look for it and saying you were really upset about losing it’ (15)

Question 22

Loss

Answer 22

‘ But it’s also something of a lost corner … Norfolk came to be a real source of comfort to us’ (6)

Question 23

Tommy as gullible

Answer 23

’The next day I could see Tommy going about with his arm held out very rigidly and looking worried’ (7)

Question 24

Hailsham as a game

Answer 24

‘ It’s not a game anymore’ (9) RUTH

‘ It’s not like a game anymore’ (9) TOMMY

Question 25

Ruth contradicting herself - being manipulative/ cunning?

Answer 25

’You’ve always had this way with him. He’ll listen to you’ (9)
‘ Even though Tommy was at Hailsham, he isn’t like a real Hailsham student’ (13)

Question 26

Contrast of freedom

Answer 26

(Quotations from ’lack of freedom’ + …)
’We’d never been beyond the grounds of Hailsham’ (10)
‘ Provided we were back by the day and the time we entered into Keffer’s ledgerbook’ (10)

Question 27

Two Ruths

Answer 27

‘One Ruth who was always trying to impress the veterans … was the Ruth from Hailsham’ (11)

Question 28

Regret/ nostalgia

Answer 28

’You were never embarrassed about your collection and you kept it. I wish now I’d done that too’ (11)

Question 29

Hailsham as being privileged

Answer 29

(The person Kathy cares for in Chp.1 wanted to know all about Hailsham - ’What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood’)
‘ She … Chrissie … was always asking us questions about Hailsham’ (12)
‘ She was awestruck about our being from Hailsham’ (12)
‘ This notion of theirs that there were all kinds of possibilities open to us Hailsham students that weren’t open to them’ (14)

Question 30

Kathy covering for Ruth

Answer 30

(Ruth upset about not being able to go to Norfolk) - ‘ That’s not what Ruth’s upset about. It’s about something else, something that happened earlier on’ (13)

Question 31

Ruth as patronising to Kathy

Answer 31

’Kathy hates to be naughty. So we’d better not go and visit him’ (13)

Question 32

Tommy learning to control himself - realisation of what he knows that others don’t (before, bullied for differences)

Answer 32

‘ Then he began to scream and shout, a nonsensical jumble of swear words and insults’ (1)
‘ Look had appeared in Tommy’s eyes that made me catch my breath … then the look faded’ (13)

Question 33

Tommy as choosing Kathy over Ruth

Answer 33

(He tells Kathy about Miss Lucy’s conversation with him) (9)
‘ I’ll stay with Kath. If we’re splitting, then I’ll stay with Kath’ (14)
(Use of ’Kath’ - only character to - familiarity)
‘ I haven’t told anyone, not even Ruth’ (15) - Tommy’s theory on what gallery was for
- Tommy bought tape for Kathy - didn’t tell Ruth (15)

Question 34

Clones are modelled from trash

Answer 34

‘ We all know it. We‘re modelled from trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps’ (14)
’ If you want to look for possibles … then you look in the gutter. You look in rubbish bins’ (14)

Question 35

Idea of not originals

Answer 35

’Do you think it could be the same one? I mean, the actual one. The one you lost?’ (15) - Norfolk ’the lost corner’
- idea of charity shops

Question 36

Forgetting

Answer 36

’Ruth kept pretending to forget things about Hailsham … I got more and more irritated with her’ (16)

Question 37

Self-blame for Ruth’s actions

Answer 37

‘ Perhaps if I hadn’t pulled her up so sharply - perhaps if I’d just made a joke of it and carried on’ (16)

Question 38

Betrayal

Answer 38

‘It’s not just me, sweety. Kathy here finds your animals a complete hoot’ - Ruth betrayed Kathy, Kathy feels she’s betrayed Tommy

• Ruth patronising - ’sweety gums’
• memento mori - happened in graveyard (’old gravestones’) - Tommy’s animals supposed to help get deferral (putting off their death) - implies that it won’t work

Question 39

Fragility of friendship

Answer 39

‘ It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that’ (17)
- symbolises DNA?

Question 40

Start at …

Answer 40

Chp. 17/18