Theme - Freedom and confinement Flashcards
Quotations from Part 1
“All we could see really was a dark fringe of trees”
“I accepted the invisible rein she was holding out”
Quotations from Part 2
“during the first months, we rarely stepped beyond the confines of the Cottages.”
“you could sense just from the huge sky, that you were walking towards the sea”
Quotations from Part 3
“I thought about Hailsham closing, and how it was like someone coming along with a pair of shears and snipping the balloon strings”
“Then we came to a barbed wire fence, which was tilted and rusted, the wire itself yanked all over the place.”
“Here was the world, requiring students to donate. While that remained the case, there would always be a barrier against seeing you as properly human.”