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Important Quotes:

“Carers aren’t machines. You try and do your best for every donor, but in the end, it wears you down.” (Pg 4)

“There have been times over the years when I’ve tried to leave Hailsham behind, when I’ve told myself I shouldn’t look back so much.” (Pg 5)

“Driving around the country now, I still see things that will remind me of Hailsham.” (Pg 6)

Examples of major themes:

The world of children vs. the world of adults: Kathy goes from talking about her life as a carer to when she was a child at Hailsham.

Character Development:

Kathy is a 31 year old woman and has been a carer for 11 years. She is very proud of her work as a carer and feels as if she treats her donors very well. She is a Hailsham student.

Ruth is one of Kathy’s donors, the 3rd or 4th one she chose. She also went to Hailsham and grew up with Kathy.

Conflict:

Kathy vs. Childhood: She struggles with leaving the past behind her.

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Important Quotes:

"My guess is that from some time before he did that elephant, Tommy had had the feeling he wasn't keeping up- that his painting in particular was like that of students much younger than him..." (Pg 20)

"what she said was that if I didn't want to be creative, if I really didn't feel like it, that was perfectly alright." (Pg 23)

Examples of major themes:

The world of children vs. the world of adults. Kathy is talking about her childhood growing up again.

Character Development:

Christy was someone who was really good at poetry.

Miss Geraldine was a very comforting guardian at Hailsham and everyone loved her.

Tommy seemed to have many problems in school, but then he seemed to be doing a lot better.

Conflict:

Tommy vs. his problems: Tommy seemed to be behind everyone at school and had many tantrums.

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Important Quotes:

"The gallery was something Tommy and I were discussing was something we'd grown up with. Everyone talked about it as though it existed, though in truth, none of us knew for sure that it did." (Pg 31)

"Madame was afraid of us. But she was afraid of us in the same way someone might be afraid of spiders. We hadn't been ready for that. It had never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel, being seen like that, being the spiders." (Pg 35)

Examples of major themes:

What does it mean to be human? Last page in chapter- 36.

Character development:

Miss Lucy- the most sporting of the guardians at Hailsham.

Madame- has a gallery, lives outside of Hailsham but comes and visits a lot, unexpectedly. The kids thought that she was scared of them. She was French or Belgian.

Conflict:

Students vs. their identity: At the end of the chapter, Kathy is discussing how the students at Hailsham struggled with finding out who they were and how they were different, she believed this was because of their guardians. (Pg 36)

Madame vs. students: the kids at Hailsham believe that Madame is afraid of them and wonders why she wants their work for the gallery.

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Important Quotes:

"All I can tell you today is that it's for a good reason. A very important reason. But if I tried to explain it to you now, I don't think you'd understand. One day, I hope, it'll be explained to you." (Pg 40)

Examples of major themes:

The idea of nostalgia- Kathy revisiting her past relationships with Tommy and Ruth. Also seen when Kathy is talking about "collections."

The world of children vs. the world of adults: The children not being able to know why Madame takes their collections, but the adults are aware of the reasoning.

Character development:

Kathy: "I won't be a carer any more come the end of the year, and though I've got a lot out of it, I have to admit I'll welcome the chance to rest- to stop and think and remember." (Pg 37) Kathy becomes reflective of her past and wants to put it all together.

Miss Emily: head guardian at Hailsham, tried to be perceived as tall, intimidating, her presence made the students feel safe.

Conflict:

Miss Emily vs. Students: Miss Emily would get mad at the students occasionally and call them "unworthy of privilege" and would talk down upon them.

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Important Quotes:

"I was never sure if Ruth had actually invented the secret guard herself, but there was no doubt she was the leader." (Pg 49)

""Let's just agree. Lets agree I got it in the Sale." Then she gave us all a knowing smile." (Pg 57)

"I now felt awful, and I was confused. But as we stood there together staring at the fog and rain, I could think of no way to repair the damage I'd done." (Pg 60)

Examples of major themes:

The world of children vs. the world of adults.

Character development:

Ruth: believed to be the leader of the secret guard.

Moira B: was a member of the secret guard, but was kicked out. Never backed down easily.

Conflict:

Ruth vs. Kathy: The pencil case incident and lack of trust in their friendship.

Kathy vs. Moira B

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Important Quotes:

"the one Tommy and I found in Norfolk years afterwards—but that's another story I'll come to later"

"So keeping yourselves well, keeping yourselves very healthy inside, that's much more important for each of you than it is for me." (Pg 69)

Examples of major themes:

The world of children vs the world of adults: The Norfolk "lost corner", they believed it as children but as adults realize it was a joke.

Character development:

Kathy and Ruth relationships with Tommy change.

Conflict:

Kathy vs. Ruth

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Important Quotes:

"The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way. But I'm not. If you're to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you." (81)

Examples of major themes:

The limited number of years we have on Earth: students being raised to donate their organs. Pretty much being raised to die.

Character development:

Miss Lucy: actually tells the truth to the kids about how they will be donors or carers.

Conflict:

Kathy betraying Tommy

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Important Quotes:

"In a way, sex had got like "being creative" had been a few years earlier. It felt like if you hadn't gone it yet, you ought to, and quickly" (166)

Examples of major themes:

Limited number of years we have on Earth: the students believe that they need to have sex and rush to do it.

Character development:

Tommy- acting offended by things and strange.

Conflicts:

Ruth and Tommy break up because Ruth was tired of waiting for him to have sex.

Tommy and Kathy have problems.

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Important Quotes:

"Listen, Tommy, you're art, it is important. And not just because it's evidence. But for you're own sake. You'll get a lot from it, just for your self" (Pg 108)

"I saw Harry fleetingly a couple of years ago at the recovery center in Wiltshire. He was being brought in after a donation. I wasn't in the best of moods because my own donor had just completed the night before" (Pg 101)

Examples of major themes:

Limited number of years: Tommy needs to use his creativeness.

Nostalgia: Kathy remembering her last day as a student at Hailsham.

Character Development:

Harry: a donor

Tommy: worries about not being creative enough and getting back together with Ruth.

Conflicts:

Miss Lucy vs Hailsham

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Important Quotes:

"But you keep leaving Tommy in the lurch. I've watched you, you've done it a few times just this week. You leave him stranded, looking like a spare part. That's not fair. You and Tommy and supposed to be a couple. That means you look out for him" (Pg 209).

Examples of major themes:

The world of children vs the world of adults: The students move out to be on their own.

Character Development:

Kathy: moves out of Hailsham and is living in a cottage.

Keffers: Caretaker of the cottages, rude and isolated.

Conflicts:

Ruth vs Kathy: fight about Ruth spoiling books and not treating Tommy right.

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Important Quotes:

"Anyway, the thing was, however much we might have fallen out during the day, come bed-time, Ruth and I would still find ourselves sitting side by side on my mattress, sipping our hot drinks, exchanging our deepest feelings about our new life like nothing had ever come between us." (Pg 126)

"Those early months at the cottages had been a strange time in our friendship. We were quarreling over all kinds of little things, but at the same time we were confiding in each other more than ever." (Pg 126)

Examples of major themes:

The idea of human cloning

Nostalgia: looking back on their lives at the Cottages.

Character development:

Kathy begins to look at situations in a deeper way

Tommy gets closer to Kathy

Conflicts:

Kathy vs Ruth- their friendship is going through a weird patch

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Important Quotes:

"Since each of us was copied at some point from a normal person, there must be, for each of us, somewhere out there, a model getting on with his or her life." (Pg 139)

"One big idea behind finding your model was that when you did, you'd glimpse your future. Now I don't mean anyone really thought that if your model turned out to be, say, a guy working at a railway station, that's what you'd end up doing too. We all realised it wasn't that simple."

Examples of major themes:

The idea of human cloning

Character development:

Chrissy: Interested in Hailsham

Ruth: Has a "possible"

Conflicts:

Ruth vs idea of having a possible

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Important Quotes:

“We’re not supposed to visit carers. Absolutely strictly speaking.Certainly not encouraged.” (Pg 150)

"That was a cosy little moment, when it felt like we'd left behind the bad feeling that had grown between us in the car." (Pg 149)

"some Hailsham students in the past, in special circumstances, had managed to get a deferral." (Pg 153)

Examples of major themes:

the world of children vs the world of adults: Ruth's life compared to the life of her possible

Character Development:

Martin: been at the cottages the prior year, is now a carer living in a flat in the town

Tommy: gets upset because Ruth says he was "not like a real Hailsham student. He was left out of everything." (Pg 155)

Conflicts:

Ruth vs Tommy: Ruth is leaving Tommy out of conversation

Ruth vs finding her possible

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Important Quotes:

"Her face, especially when she was finishing her laugh with a shake of her head, had more than a hint of Ruth about it." (Pg 159)

"The more we heard her and looked at her, the less she seemed like Ruth." (Pg 163)

"It's daft to assume you'll have the same sort of life as your model." (Pg 165)

Examples of major themes:

The idea of human cloning

Character Development:

Ruth: Gets angry that she did not actually find her possible, then gets defensive towards Tommy

Kathy: tries to see the reality in the situation

Conflicts:

Ruth vs Tommy: when Tommy stays back with Kathy at the end, Ruth gives him a mean glare

Ruth vs Kathy: Ruth gets angry that Kathy is not agreeing with her

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Important Quotes:

"Not long ago when I was caring for Tommy, and I brought up our Norfolk trip, he told me he'd felt exactly the same." (Pg 171)

"I really appreciated having the tape-and that song-back again. Even then, it was mainly a nostalgia thing," (Pg 173)

"She told Roy that things like pictures, poetry, all that kind of stuff, she said they revealed what you were like inside. She said they revealed your soul." (Pg 175)

Examples of major themes:

The feeling of nostalgia

the idea of human cloning

Character development:

Ruth: realizes she acted badly, takes responsibility for her actions

Kathy: recognizes her feelings for Tommy

Conflicts:

Tommy vs art theory

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Important Quotes:

"I suppose to some extent we envied the people leaving. It did feel like they were headed for a bigger, more exciting world." (Pg 185)

Examples of major themes:

The idea of nostalgia

Character Development:

Tommy develops a theory regarding what the art the students did at Hailsham is used for.

Ruth: begins to "forget" things about Hailsham

Conflicts:

Kathy vs Tommy's theory

Tommy and Ruth vs applying for deferral

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Important Quotes:

"Though they still made a show of being a couple I knew them well enough to see they'd grown quite distant from each other." (Pg 198)

"But the
atmosphere never quite righted itself, and when we said our
goodnights in front of the Black Barn, we parted without our
usual little touches on the arms and shoulders." (Pg 202)

"Maybe Ruth thought we'd be spending hours talking
about my future; maybe she thought she'd have a big influence
on whether or not I changed my mind. But I kept a certain
distance from her, just as I did from Tommy." (Pg 203)

Examples of major themes:

The idea of nostalgia

the limited # of years we have on Earth

Character development:

Tommy: has been upset because of things that Ruth has been saying

Ruth: still pretending to remember nothing about Hailsham and gets defensive about her and Tommy's relationship

Kathy: begins to go through the process to become a carer

Conflicts:

Ruth vs Kathy: their relationship is still on the edge

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Important Quotes:

"Maybe we both felt there was something dangerous about bringing up the old days, because for ages we avoided any mention of them." (Pg 209)

"But it definitely felt like Hailsham's going away had shifted everything." (Pg 213)

Examples of major themes:

Nostalgia

Character development:

Kathy: realizes Ruth does not trust her

Ruth: completed her first donation

Laura: always depressed, not the same as she used to be

Conflict:

Kathy vs Ruth: they are not getting along and Kathy is debating on being Ruth's carer

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Important Quotes:

"When Tommy came up to us, his gaze fell on me and why it was me he hugged first. I could smell a faint odor of something medical on him which I couldn't identify." (Pg 220)

Examples of major themes:

The limited # of years we have on Earth

Character development:

Ruth: Takes the comments from Tommy and Kathy and does not strike back like she would have when they were younger.

Tommy: says he is a good donor

Conflicts:

Tommy/Kathy vs Ruth: Ruth seems to be kind of left out towards the beginning of their trip

Ruth vs donations: She is starting to struggle with her health

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Important Quotes:

"It wasn't long after Tommy's third donation, and though he was recovering well, he was still needing a lot of time to rest, and as it turned out, that wasn't a bad way at all for us to start this new phase together." (Pg 237)

"But even that first time, there was something there, a feeling, right there alongside our sense that this was a beginning, a gateway we were passing through." (Pg 239)

Examples of major themes:

The limited # of years we have on Earth

Character development:

Kathy: becomes Tommy's carer

Tommy: shows his feelings for Kathy

Conflicts:

Tommy/Kathy vs deferral

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Important Quotes:

"My Gallery. You must mean my collection. All those paintings, poems, all those things of yours I gathered over the years"

""Miss Emily," Tommy said, quite softly "You speak to them," Madame   said, as though washing her hands of everything""

Examples of major themes:

Nostalgia

Character development:

Madame: shocked to see the previous students and to hear their ideas about deferral

Kathy: very hopeful

Tommy: very anxious

Conflicts:

Tommy/Kathy vs Madame and deferral

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Important Quotes:

"But a generation of created students who'd take their place in society? Children demonstrably superior to the rest of us? Oh, no. That frightened people. They recoiled from that"

"Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all."

Examples of major themes:

What does it mean to be human?

Character development:

Miss Emily: explains why Hailsham shut down, actually cares for the children

Kathy: upset and seeking answers

Madame: seems upset that this is the reality for these kids

Conflicts:

Tommy/Kathy vs getting a deferral

Scandal

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Important Quotes:

"But what I couldn't help noticing was how, more and more, Tommy tended to identify himself with other donors at the center."

“Even then, he carried on listening and smiling. He claimed afterwards he’d signaled to me to come over, but if he had, it hadn’t been at all obvious"

Examples of major themes:

The limited # of years we have on Earth

Nostalgia

Character development:

Tommy: acting distant with Kathy, doesn't want her to see him give his last potential donation

Kathhy: upset by Tommy acting differently

Conflicts:

Tommy vs Kathy