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Never Let Me Go⚰️💔🩻 Flashcards

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There have been times over the years when…’

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‘I’ve tried to leave hailsham behind’

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‘The more we heard and looked at her…’

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‘The less she seemed like Ruth’

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‘But I kept…’

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‘you apart’

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‘We were holding onto each other because that was the only way…’

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‘to stop us being swept away into the night’

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5
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‘To drive off to wherever…’

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‘I was supposed to be’

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‘We’re modelled from trash…’

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‘Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps’

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There were powerful…

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Tides tugging us apart

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8
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‘You were ____ pawns’

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Lucky

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‘My name is Kathy H. I’m _____ years old, and I’ve been a career now for over ______ years’

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‘Thirty-one’ ‘eleven’

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10
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The moment you realise that you really are…

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Different to them.

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11
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Believed that when you saw the person you were copied from…

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You’d get some insight into who you were deep down

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12
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Our models, what they were like…

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That’s nothing to do with us Kath.

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13
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She saw and decided in a second…

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What were were (italics)

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14
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‘As if a pair of large spiders was set…

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To crawl towards her’

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15
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‘Or maybe I’m remembering…

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It wrong’

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16
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‘Golden…

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Time’

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17
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‘I lost Ruth, then I lost Tommy, but…

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I won’t lose my memories of them’

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18
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The sort of loyalty…

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She inspired in me in those days

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19
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Judy Bridgewater. My old…

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Friend

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20
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(About the gallery)
There was an unspoken rule that we should…

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Never even raise the subject in their presence

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‘She said they revealed what you were like inside. She said…

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They revealed your soul’

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22
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We did it to prove…

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You had souls at all’

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23
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You’ve been told…

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And not told.

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24
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You’ve been told, but none of you…

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Really understand’

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25
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‘You know, Ruth, we might be coming in a few years’…

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To visit you’

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26
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You were kept away from…

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The worst of those horrors

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27
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After all, it’s what we’re…

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Supposed to be doing, isn’t it?

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28
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We’ve loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can’t…

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Stay together forever

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29
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I’ll have hailsham with me, safely in my head, and that’ll be something…

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No one can take away

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30
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‘All we could see really was a dark…

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Fringe of trees

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31
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I certainly wasn’t the only one of my age…

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To feel their presence day and night

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32
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‘It’s just as well the fences at hailsham aren’t electrified. You get…

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Terrible accidents sometimes’

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33
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‘We rarely stepped beyond the…

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Confines of the cottages’

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34
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It was like someone coming along with a pair of shears and…

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Snipping the balloon strings

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35
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‘Privileged…

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Estate’

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36
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‘The drugs the…

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Pain and the exhaustion’

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37
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‘If I didn’t want to be creative…

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That was perfectly alright’

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38
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She was afraid of us in the same way

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Someone might be afraid of spiders

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39
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‘Sandpit

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Incident

40
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Fantasy

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Land

41
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What does the Judy Bridgewater Tape symbolise?

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Friendship

42
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What does Norfolk symbolise?

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Hope
‘The lost corner of England’

43
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What does hailsham symbolise?

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Control/home

44
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What do animals symbolise?

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The fact the clones are different to ‘normal’ humans

45
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What do the woods symbolise?

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The fear of the outside world

46
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Mad

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Animal

47
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That’s what each of you was

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Created to do

48
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Unzipping

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Incident

49
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Songs

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After dark

50
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The secret

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Guards

51
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Euphemism

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Completion

52
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To describe cottages

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‘Virtually falling down’

53
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Two

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Separate Ruth’s

54
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Open-plan

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Office

55
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Dream

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Future

56
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What is ironic about the charity shop?

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Irony - holds things you don’t want
Clones have to donate organs which are things they need

57
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Sweety

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Gums

58
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He doesn’t see you like, you

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Know, a proper girlfriend

59
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To describe the pencil case

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‘Gorgeous item’

60
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Jerk me

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Out of my dream

61
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Like day

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Turning into night

62
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Heart

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To hearts

63
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(Tommy) isn’t like

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A real hailsham student

64
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The donations

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Programme

65
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What does the boat symbolise

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Their trapped lives

66
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What does the clown symbolise?

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Kathy’s fear of losing her memories

67
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You haven’t been that slow

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At making friends with at least some of the veterans

68
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Quotations about the nature of Hailsham.

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‘unworthy of privilege’
‘misuse of opportunity’

Miss Emily believes that Hailsham is a good place, students should feel honoured.

69
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Quotation: Kathy’s language of a constant underlying danger.

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Tommy’s Recovery Centre

‘I can’t help but picturing a swimmer taking a dive off the top, only to crash into the cement.’

70
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__________ humans in, cultivated environments… as sensitive and intelligent as ___ ________ _______ _______

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reared, any ordinary human being

71
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shadowy objects….

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…in test tubes.

72
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‘reared’
Explain.

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  • Associated with animals.
  • Despite her best intentions, even miss Emily doesn’t see the students are really human.
  • She doesn’t see the student as ‘ordinary human beings’
73
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Shadowy objects in test tubes
Explain.

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  • Takes away the humanity of the students.
  • They are only part of a medical experiment in the eyes of society.
74
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Miss Emily: ‘For a long time you …

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… were kept in the shadows

  • Students occupy a life between life and death.
75
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Madame: ‘poor…

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…creatures’

76
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Language is used to dull the horror of what is actually happening to the students.
Give quotations.

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‘Donation’
- Usually something that is given freely and willingly.
- Not the case.

‘Complete’
- Remind use the donors are not human.

77
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Setting of Hailsham.

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  • Isolated
  • Away from society
  • Open
  • Space for the clones
  • Positive and negative memories
78
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Setting of the woods.

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  • Rumors - started deliberately? Psychological barriers are more effective than actual fences.
79
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Setting of the Cottages.
‘The cottages were the remains of a farm’
‘virtually falling down’

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  • Halfway house
  • Veterans - not from Hailsham.
  • Run-down (contrast to Hailsham)
  • Students don’t mind it - ‘none of us minded the discomforts ones bit’
  • Less retrained than at Hailsham.
80
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Setting of the Recovery Centres.

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Kathy:
‘no real sense of peace and quiet’
Becomes…
‘a familiar and precious place’

Sinister. Removal of vital organs. Completions.
- ‘Recovery’ is ironic, they will only recover short term.

81
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Kathy’s use of present in the retelling of past events.

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  • Both Kathy and Moira have been rejected by Secret Guard.
  • Moira mocks it but Kathy gets defensive about it.

‘Moira was suggesting that she and I cross some line together, and I wasn’t prepared for that yet.’

82
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Pattern in structure: When Ruth does something wrong, Kathy…

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  1. Gets angry.
  2. Rationalises it and changes her mind.

‘slow making friends with at least some of the veterans’
- Kathy initially walks away
- Looking back, ‘I can now see things more from Ruth’s viewpoint.’

83
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Miss Lucy: ‘None of you will go to America, none of you will be film stars and none of you will be working in supermarkets’

Explain.

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  • Lack of free will distresses Miss Lucy
  • Supermarket is not a high ambition but money gives the students independence which will never be available to them.
84
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Conditioned out of having free will.
(Kathy)

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‘I’d develop a habit of taking long, solitary walks but that I’d start learning to drive a car.’
‘I’d have thought you were mad.’

Freedom of choice.
Kathy is disbelieving she will have these things.

85
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Miss Emily: ‘You life must now…

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… run the course that’s been set for it.’

  • finality of the statement
  • the free will they thought they had doesn’t exist.
  • Illusion of free will.
86
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‘it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game…

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… you were lucky pawns’
- Tommy and Kathy get little comfort from this.
- A pawn will always be sacrificed and is irrelevant.

87
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Has the Illusion of free will made more pain for the clones?

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You decide…?

88
Q

Kazuo Ishiguro says that NLMG is a story about…

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Sadness of ‘human condition’

89
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Quotation: Hailsham is an exception to the normal conditions for clones.

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‘reared in deplorable conditions’

90
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Questions about the human condition.

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  • Is it right to create people so they can save others?
  • Science gone too far?
  • How can any human be seen as a ‘shadowy object’ in a test tube? Why would we think that?
  • If cloning could save the lives of loved ones would we stop and think about the moral implications?
91
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Miss Emily: ‘ there wasn’t time to take stock to…

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… ask the sensible questions.’

92
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How you were regarded at Hailsham…

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had to do with how good you were at “creating”.

93
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Norfolk came to be a

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real source of comfort for us.

94
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Our models, what they were like,

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that’s got nothing to do with us.

95
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Tommy doesn’t like girls who’ve been with …

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well, you know, with this person and that.

96
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Maybe I did know, somewhere deep down.

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Something the rest of you didn’t.

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