NLMG- Identity Theme Flashcards
Chapter 1: Kathy
‘There have been times over the years when I’ve tried to leave Hailsham behind’
‘I just stopped resisting’- she belongs at hailsham. This occurs when she is asked by the donor her memories of hailsham.
‘And the more we heard and looked at her, the less she seemed like Ruth.” - chapter14 - Norfolk
The disappointing truth about Ruth’s possible foreshadows the disappointment that Kathy and Tommy will face in their pursuit of a deferral.
‘But I kept you apart.’- chapter 19
Ruth announces that she has manipulated Kathy in the past and she has kept her and tommy apart
‘My name is Kathy H’-chapter1
Lack of surname, lack of identity. Identity hidden from them as they don’t have possibles as they are cloned
‘Porn mags’
Kathy looks through the porn mag at the cottages as she wants to find out who her possibles are.
‘Poor creatures’
‘Spiders’
Clones referred to this to show how they are different to humans.
‘Spiders’ are small, clones are small compared to ‘normals’
‘Delapidated farms’
Kept as animals in the cottages. Can’t find out much about identity because they are in farm
‘Your lives are set out for you’-miss Lucy says to the children.
Can’t explore identity or become office workers as they will one day just become carers or donors
Shadows in a test tube
They’ve been cloned. Image of them in test tube as they are being cloned from a lab.
Madame made the gallery to ‘prove they had souls at all’
There is no document about them being born. The art is held in the gallery as a document for them
We’re modelled from trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps.
Ruths hope of finding possible lowers with the quote. She thinks they’ve been reproduced and left because the possibles dont want them
