NLMG Key Quotes

Question 1

Moment 1

Answer 1

• ‘My name is Kathy H.’
• Repetition of ‘you’ (simple language, nothing else to say)
• Also: (direct address, Kathy believes we know what’s going on)
• ‘Hailsham’ - repetition of Hailsham shows it’s important and ‘sham’ means lie, fake, deceit

Question 2

Madame’s Visit p.35-36

Answer 2

• ‘usual grey suit’
• ‘briefcase held tightly’
• ‘stiff halt’
• ‘shudder she seemed to be suppressing’
• ‘real dread’
• ‘Madame was afraid of us’ (use of italics)
• Triplet of questions and repetition of ‘why’ emphasises confusion (Laura speaking)
• End of chapter: ‘something troubling and strange’

Question 3

The Judy Bridgewater Song p.70-71

Answer 3

• ‘holding an imaginary baby to my breast’ (dreams)
• ‘crying’ (Madame was crying because she knows the clones can’t have babies and the little girl will only live 20 years)

Question 4

Miss Lucy Talks to the Students p.79-80

Answer 4

• ‘more drops coming off the gutter and landing on her shoulder, but she didn’t seem to notice’ (pathetic fallacy)
• Repetition of ‘told’
• Use of definitive and repetition of ‘none of you’
• ‘That’s what each of you was created to do.’ (Short sentence, ‘to donate vital organs’)

Question 5

Chapter 13, Deferrals p.152-153

Answer 5

• ‘more and more’ (repetition emphasises obsession with deferrals)
• ‘their gazes settled back on Ruth’ (Ruth’s the leader)
• ‘sighed’ and ‘shrug’ (Ruth’s actions are theatrical and she performs because she’s a clone and doesn’t have her own personality)
• ‘he isn’t like a real Hailsham student’ (makes us question what a ‘real’ HS is)

Question 6

Chapter 14, Ruth’s Outburst p.164-165

Answer 6

• We’re modelled from trash
• ‘Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps’
• ‘Look down the toilet, that’s where you’ll find where we all came from.’

Question 7

Tommy wondering about his art p.173-4

Answer 7

• Repetition of ‘love’ (clones can still love)
• Theme of love
• ‘good’ (Tommy’s basic adjective)
• Repetition of ‘slowly’ shows that their minds are so slow and so is their physical body

Question 8

Tommy’s drawings p.184-5

Answer 8

• ‘densely detailed’
• ‘weaving’, ‘miniature’ and ‘obsessive’ (trio of adjectives)
• Use of listing and mechanical imagery
• ‘fantastical creatures’ (represents the clones, they’re not humans but ‘creatures’)

Question 9

The abandoned boat p.220-1

Answer 9

• Tone is melancholy
• Semantic field of death ‘closed’, ‘shut down’, ‘completed’, ‘vapour trail’
• ‘I could see rubbish floating by under my window’
• Use of ‘I’ instead of ‘we’ (After surgery/donations clones seem to have a greater sense of self and the impending mortality of their lives)

Question 10

The Morningdale Scandal p.258-9

Answer 10

• Repetition of ‘we’ whilst Miss Emily’s speaking reemphasises us vs them
• Repetition of calling the clones ‘they’

Question 11

Madame’s Recollections p.266-7

Answer 11

• ‘his rages’ (Tommy and clones shouldn’t have rages, that’s human behaviour)
• ‘hit the side of my face’ (If clones are all the same, they should get along)
• Ruth calls Tommy a ‘Mad animal’

Question 12

The End p.280-2

Answer 12

• Repetition of ‘I’ (Kathy’s no longer part of the collective, she’s an individual)
• ‘a hotel, a school, a ruin’ - pessimistic triplet of what Hailsham could be like now
• ‘to drive off to wherever I was supposed to be’ (A moment of choice - K chooses the status quo)