Nlmg Moments Flashcards
Intro
‘I’ve been a carer’/‘Okay, maybe I AM boasting now’/‘I’m a Hailsham student’/‘which is enough by itself to get people’s backs up’/Hailsham. I bet that was a beautiful place’ (one of the carers she was looking after)/‘This was all a long time ago, so I might have some of it wrong’
Setting of Hailsham
Ch1 ‘South playing field’ ‘Sports pavillion’/‘I still see things that will remind me of Hailsham’/ (in last chapter)’I don’t go searching for it’
Tommy and tantrums
Ch1. ‘put a hand on his arm’ ‘arms were still flailing about’/‘he knocked my hand’ ‘hit the side of my face’ /‘burst into thunderous bellowing’ ‘his face scarlet[/‘“wild furied”’/ called ‘Mad Animal’ by ruth/‘ we relished the prospect of Tommy grt humiliated yet again’/tommy wearing ‘His favourite polo shirt’? Laura ‘mimicking’ Tommy/ in next chapter ‘I’ve grown up a bit’ I had a talk with Miss Lucy’ ‘She said I shouldn’t wprry’ ‘Not mind what other people were saying’ ‘She was SHAKING’ ‘with rage’ ‘furious deep inside’
Tommy being bullied at Hailsham
‘ he was a good runner’ ‘pranks’ ‘worm in his cereal’ ‘cleaned a toilet with his toothbrush’
Exchanges at Hailsham
‘Four times a year’ ‘paid in Exchange tokens’ ‘by work done by students’ ‘only means, aside from the sales’ ‘of building up a collection of personal possessions’ ‘how you were regarded at Hailsham’ ‘how good you were at ‘creating’ ‘Jackies giraffes’(remembered by ruth in recovery centre)
Miss geraldine
‘ everyone’s favourite gaurdian’ comforted you’ ‘
Miss lucy
‘Most sporting of the guardians’ ‘furious deep inside’ ‘she said we weren’t being taught enough’
Madame
‘She was French or Belgium’ ‘ sharp grey suit’ ‘she wouldn’t talk to us’/ ‘swarm’ ‘all around her’ ‘she was afraid of us in the same way someone might be afraid of spiders’ (a learnt fear) / in last part miss emiliy says ‘We’re ALL afraid of you’
Isolated at hailsham
‘long narrow road’ ‘gate’ ‘fair distance off’ (ambigious) ‘Days could sometimes go by without us seeing a vehicle’, a car was a rarity ‘sight’ ‘cause bedlam during a class’
Feeling of being alien to humans
Ch3 ‘ dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs’ ‘The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it’s a cold moment’ ‘walking past a mirror’ ‘suddenly it shows you something’ ‘troubling and strange’
Miss emily
‘Deliberate voice; ;we were all pretty scared of her’ ‘assembly’ ‘turning a frosty eye towards any whispering’ ‘unworthy of privilege’ ‘misuse of opportunity’ ‘we were all very special, being Hailsham students’ ‘your heart sank’ ‘she’d always know you were there hiding’ (contrast to when the students seek out madame and she is in the shadows :’someone listening behind us in the darkened half of the room’
Miss lucy qustioned by students about gallery
‘ Why does Madame take out things anyway’ ‘All I can tell you today is that it’s for a good reason’ ‘One day, I hope, it’ll be explained to you’ (which it is when kathy and tommy visit madame in pt3)
Horses game with ruth
‘My BEST horse’ ‘I can’t let you ride on HIM’ ‘you’ve got to come NOW’ ‘Ruth brought it all to an end, claiming I was deliberately tiring out her horses’ ‘saying I was doing everything wrong’
Woods
‘ it was like they cast a shadow over the whole of Hailsham’ ‘top of the hill’ ‘looming in the distance’ ‘safest’ ‘you couldn’t see them from any of the windows’ ‘you never really got away from them’ ‘Marge K’ ‘forced open her eyes’ ‘sobbing night of terror’
Rumours abou the woods
Boy ‘run off beyond the Hailsham borders’ ‘His body had been found two days later’ ‘tied to a tree with the hands and feet chopped off’ / ‘girl’s ghost wandered through these trees’ ‘climbed over a fence just to see what it was like’ gaurdians said ‘she wasn’t allowed’ to be let back in desite her ‘pleading’
Chess
‘Ruth would often pause to study a game’ ‘Amazingly dim’ ‘She’d tell me about some move she’d spotted that neither player had seen’ / if brought up ‘she sighed’ ‘pretended she had something else really urgent’ ‘finally cornered her’ ‘vauge varient on chess’ ‘each piece moved ina n L-shape’ ‘she didnt know how to play’ ‘disappointed’
Pencil case
‘Claiming’ ‘gift from Miss Geraldine’ to test ruth looked in ‘pages of the register’ onse can see ‘all the things people had bought’ ‘complete loss for words’ ‘for once’ ‘verge of tears’ ‘didnt we all dream’ ‘from time to time’ ‘gaurdian’ ‘bend the rules’ doing something special for us’ ‘Ruth walked off’
Tape
‘I still have a copy’ most prised possessions’ ‘songs after dark’ ‘cigerette’ on cover ‘got so secretive about the tape’ ‘track number three’ ‘Never Let Me Go’ ‘imagine’ ‘told she couldnt have babies’ ‘miracle’ ‘she has a baby’ ‘she’s so afraid’ ‘something will happen’ ‘holding this baby very close’ Madame ‘crying’/‘sobbing’ / pt3 ‘ I saw a new world coming rapidly’ ‘holding’ ‘the old kind world’/. ‘Upset’ ‘abot going missing’ ruth gives her ‘twentu classic dance tunes’ ‘especially now ruth has gone’ ‘one of my most precious possessions’
Norfolk at hailsham
Ch6. ‘ gap in Miss Emily’s calender collection’ ‘none of them had a single picture of Norfolk ‘lost corner’
Miss lucy talk about cigerettes
Ch6- after rounders match
‘ I did smoke; ‘for you’ ‘it’s much,much worse’ ‘You’re SPECIAL’ ‘keeping yourself healthy ‘much more important’ for ‘each of you than it is for me’
Miss lucy talk about futures
‘You get terrible accidents sometimes’ (after laura ‘histerical impersonation’ ‘getting electrocuted’) ‘your lives our set out for you’ ‘donate your vital organs’ ‘brought into the world for a purpose’ ‘we’d been ‘told and not told’’
Sex at hailsham
Ch8and9 ‘Nuts and bolts of how you did it’ ‘skeleton through various contortions’ ‘treat sex as something pretty special’ ‘completely impossible’ have babies’ ‘respect our physical needs’ beautiful gift’ ‘as long as both people really wanted it’ different theories as to why the gaudians encouraged it ‘ kidneys and pancreas didn;t work properly’ ‘tryingto tease out clues’
Kathy and privacy
‘Create the illusion the place wasn’t crawling iwth students’ ‘secret game;
Miss lucy in room
Ch8 ‘Room 22’ ‘room was darker’ ‘blinds had been pulled’ ‘scrawling furious lines over a page with a pencil’ movements ‘ much more angry’ something pretty significant HAD happened’
Ruth and tommy
Ch8 ‘ they’d been a couple’ ‘walking around with arms around each other;
Ruth and tommy breaking up and wanting to get back together
Ch9 ‘You’re the only one I trust’ ‘make a fresh start’ ‘we can’t afford to waste time’ (kathy to tommy) ‘good chance for you’ ‘Dont mess it up’ (ruth to kathy when works)’thank me’ ‘sorting it all out so well’ ‘i was most definatey in her good books’
Tommy’s chunk of mud on back
Ch9 ‘Sizeable chunk of mud on his rugby shirt’ laura shouted ‘you got poo poo on your back’ came to a dead halt’ ‘face like thunder (link to ‘thunderous bellowing’)/ kathy ‘handed’ calender ‘to him ‘marching past me’
Tommy and elbow incident
‘UNZIP’ ‘you’ve got to remember I was still young’ ‘My heart sank’ ‘i dont trust any of the others; ;strap up his arm in a splint’
Kathy and tommy talk about miss lucy changing jer mind
‘ I made a mistake’ ‘when i said what i did ‘ art ‘Negligable’ or ‘incompetent’
Training at hailsham for outside world
‘Culture briefing’ ‘role play’ ‘various people’ ‘see out there’
The cottages
Ch10- ‘remains of a farm’ ‘Keffers’ ‘grumpy old guy’ ‘digustingly implied’ ‘we weren’t doing enough’ ‘to keep the place up’ ‘mop up after the floods’
Why don’ t they ever run away from the cottages
Ch10(start pt2) ‘we didnt even walk about the surrouning countryside’ not ‘afraid exactly’ ‘didn’t seem possible’ ‘we were just bewildered’ after a year ‘develop a habit of taking long solitary walks’
Ruth and tommy relationship at cottages
Veterans/seniors ‘treated them as a long-established couple’ ‘ looke immature at the cottages
Kathy stands up for herself against ruth
Questions about ‘hit Tommy on the arm’ ‘not something worth copying’ ‘not what people really do’ ‘normal life’ ‘poor little Kathy’ ‘Ruth’s got big new friends’ ‘Ive managed to move on, make new friends
Ruth and kathys confusing relationship at the cottages
Ch11- ‘Quarelling over all kind of things’ ‘at the same time’ ‘confiding’ in each other
Sex at the cottages
‘Functnal’ ‘because of the cold’ under a ton of blankets’ one-nighters
Natura succesor
En of pt1 - ch9
Cynthia says ‘ I suppose you’re the natural successor’
Harry at hailsham
End of pt1-ch9
‘I had my eye’’chose him for a number of reasons’(‘he’d definately done it before’ ‘didn’t fancy him’ ‘didn;t find him sick making’. ‘Sure I WOULD have had sex with harry’ if the natural successor business
Desires
Ch11. Kathy questions ruth ‘ you just really have to do it’ ‘might be something not quite right’ ‘that’s strange’ ‘does sound a bit wierd’
Two ruths
‘Two ruths wouldnt merge’ ‘one ruth’ ‘trying to impress the veterans’ ‘wouldnt hesitate to ignore me’/ ‘ruth from hailsham’ ‘could absolutely trust’
Porn mags
Ch11 ‘steves magazines’ ‘drive old Keffers mad’ /. ‘Boiler hut’ ‘moved through the pages quickly’ ‘checked each models face’/
Tommy says ‘your face’ ‘sad’ ‘bit scared’/ in norfolk kathy confeses ‘if i find her picture’ ‘explain it’
Idea of possibles
Ch12 first introduced /
‘Both intrigued and disturbed us’ ‘when you were out there yourself’ ‘kept an eye out’ ‘glimpse you future’ ‘get SOME insight into what you were deep down’
