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Important Quotes
"But something was definitely gone, they looked labored, almost like they'd been copied." 241
"no more shadows left from the past" 242
"What can she do to us" 245

Characterization
Tommy and Kathy are in love
Tommy heals quickly
Kathy is exhausted

Conflict
Kathy/Tommy v. future

Theme
What is human
definition of love
nostalgia
limited time on earth

Landscape
"Sea View"
L-shaped room
rain

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Important Quotes
"Tommy tended to identify himself with the other donors at the centre" 276
"But in the end, is it really that important?" 282
"We can't stay together forever" 282
"The fantasy never got bigger" 288

Characterization
Tommy knew it was time for him to die
Kathy feels the same emotions as normal humans
Ruth used to hope in things

Conflict
Tommy v. Kathy
Tommy v. Donation

Theme
purpose of life
how much time we have left on earth

Landscape
The Square (rigid)
back to Norfolk
open green pastures

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Important Quotes
"A bad temper, but a big heart" 256
"For students like you, I do feel regret" 258
"how we might move into a more humane and better way of doing things" 258
"We took away your art... to prove that you had souls at all" 260
"How can you ask such a world to go back to the dark days" 263
"In some ways we fooled you" 268
"We're all afraid of you" 269

Characterization
Emily is still in support of Hailsham
Madame is against it
People see clones as inhumane
Cloning started after the war
Emily was there from the beginning

Conflict
Madame v. Emily

Theme
cloning

Landscape

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Important Quotes
"We went on like that for a long time, past the rows of identical houses." 247
"Her eyes  were as cold, and her face even more evere than I remembered" 248
"Tommy, afterwards, said he thought she was about to burst into song" 251
"I remember noticing how tense he got" 251
"What did we do to you?" 254

Characterization
Miss Emily is still alive
Tommy is nervous
Kathy/Tommy are brainwashed
Madame is sad at what Hailsham has done to them

Conflict
Kathy/Tommy v. Madame
Tommy v. fear

Theme
Limited time on earth
meaning of Love
Preparing children for future

Landscape
Seafront street
narrow hallway

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Important Quotes
"an example of this unfinished atmosphere" 219
"I just stepped out of the car" 220
"Ruth's breath coming less and less easy" 222
"her fear of the fence" 222

Characterization
Ruth is weak and afraid

Conflict
Ruth v. health

Theme
cloning

Landscape
fenced off

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Important Quotes
"But some people just aren't cut for it" 207

Characterization

Conflict

Theme
What is a human

Landscape

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Important Quotes
"it wasn't until a long time afterwards... that I realised just how significant our little encounter... had been" 197
"I didn't really want Ruth... to bury the thing like that" 199
"Tommy doesn't see you like that" 201
"Before I knew it, I was saying my goodbyes" 203

Characterization
Ruth is controlling
Ruth lies
Kathy gets hurt easily
Kathy is over Ruth's lies
Ruth feels threatened by Kathy

Conflict
Kathy v. Ruth

Theme
nostalgia
moving on from the past

Landscape
Thunderstorms

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Important Quotes
"The air of secrecy" 184
"How they'd protect themselves" 188
"Hailsham was now far away in the past" 189
"I've never been sure whether or not Ruth deliberately moved things round to this" 192
"They were suffering a fae they thoroughly deserved" 196

Characterization
Tommy is now creative
They do not create as much in the Cottages
Ruth is manipulative

Conflict
Ruth v. Kathy
Tommy v. Creativity
Veterans v. future
Ruth v. Tommy

Theme
nostalgia
betrayal

Landscape
Goosehouse
old bus shelter
abondened churchyard

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Important Quotes

Characterization

Conflict

Theme

Landscape

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Important Quotes
"you end up with a lot of cards the same, but you can put your own illlustration on them. You know, personalize them." 157
"it looked like a smart, cosy, self contained world" 159
"Squishing past pushchairs and old people" 161
"The Portway Studios... sells all kinds of arty things" 162
"We were once again at a cliff edge" 164
"We're modelled from trash" 166

Characterization
Rodney is honest
Veterans see them as freaks and do not understand how they do not care about being donors
Ruth does not know how she feels about the "possible"

Conflict
Ruth v. Kathy
Veterans v. Lack of knowledge

Theme
cloning
World of childen v. adult
to be human

Landscape
going down the wrong streets
busy stores and town (jigsaw)
The Portway Studios
cliff edge

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Important Quotes
"She wasn't very serious about the prospect of finding her" 146
"Her face stuck between the two front seats" 147
"and here I was trying to undermine her" 148
"It felt like we'd left behind a bad feeling" 149

Characterization
Tommy is not following any of the fake
Ruth is self concious
Kathy is a people pleaser
Ruth does not care about Tommy and Kathy
Chrissie and Rodney are sketch

Conflict
Kathy v. Ruth
Tommy v. Hailsham
Ruth v. Tommy

Theme
nostalgia

Landscape
Norfolk where all the lost things go
Seaside
On a cliff

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Important Quotes
"The people who might have been the possibles for you" 139
"up to each of us to make of our lives what we could" 140
"Sort of office she'd ideally work in" 144

Characterization
Chrissie wants to know about Hailsham
Ruth wants a normal future

Conflict
Ruth v. Ruth
Kathy v. Chrissie

Theme
Nostalgia
Telling kids about the future (not letting them dream

Landscape
Scenic routes they'd travelled

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Important Quotes
"We were quarrelling over all kinds of little things" 126
"I'd never been in a couple before" 128
"Our friendship had stayed intact because, on my side at least" 129
"But when I think about it now, I can see things more from Ruth's viewpoint" 129
"I wish now I'd done that too" 131

Characterization
The Cottages were not as secretive
Ruth is two faced
Kathy is confused

Conflict
Kathy v. Ruth
Veterans v. Keffers
Kathy v. Tommy

Theme
nostalgia

Landscape
boiler hut

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Important quotes
"I'm not sure how long the "secret gaurd" business carried on" 49
"the woods would come into it" 50
"making it last as long as possible" 52
"The sort of loyalty she inspired in me in those days." 55
"each time it happened, I'd have to let it go" 57
"I now felt awful" 60

Character development
*Miss Geraldine is the best
*Kathy is afraid of Ruth
*Ruth is a liar

Conflict
Kathy v. Ruth
Kathy v. Moira
Ruth v. girls

Theme
nostalgia
authority/loyalty

Landscape
the woods are a very scary place
rain shows conflict

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Important quotes:
"Who at?" 28
"Like why Madame comes and takes our best pictures" (30)
"Ruth was right. Madame was afraid of us"
"How you were brought into this world" 36

Character development:
Indirect
*Tommy is a jumpy person
*The teacher is against the society
*Ruth is the leader
Direct
*Kathy has doubts about stuff too

Conflict:
teacher v. society

Themes:
authority
cloning

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Important quotes
"crushed" 61
"Ruth looked puzzle" 62
"She of course wasn't able to thank me" 63
"to believe in something again" 67
Smoking 67
"but for you it's much much worse to smoke" 68
"Baby never let me go" 70
"Now Ruth has gone" 76

Character development
*Kathy is a people pleaser
*Kathy does not like making people feel bad
*Madame feels bad for them

Conflict
Kids v. Smoking

Landscape
norfolk and oxfordshire mentioned
"Lost Corner"
coast

Theme
innocence
secrecy

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Important quotes:
"To stop and think and to remember" 37
"getting nostalgic about their collections" 38
"we couldn't ever shake of the old feelings of hope and excitement" 41

Character development:
Indirect
*fair trade is in question at the school
*gaurds also have their own opinion
Direct
*Head gaurd is old lady

Conflict:
Authority v. school

Themes:
nostalgia

Landscape
hidden places

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Important quotes:
"But we were thirteen... "...why don't you grow up?"" (13)
"... how you were regarded... had to do with how good you were" (16)
"...doing deliberately childish pictures" (20)
"There was something about Tomy himself" (22)

Character development:
Indirect
*Tommy goes trough a lot of emotions
*Kathy perceives things how she wants to
*very nosy school
Direct
*Tommy is a good runner
*Tommy is not creative

Conflict:
Kathy v. her friends' opinions
Kathy v. Tommy's tantrums

Themes:
nostalgia
cloning maybe?

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Important quotes:
"I can understand how you might get resentful" (4)
"you choose your own kind" (4)
"There have been times over the years when I tried to leave Hailsham behind" (5)
"Or maybe I'm remembering it wrong" (8)

Character development:
Indirect
*Kathy seems to like herself a lot
*People think that Kathy is priveleged
*Tommy gets made fun of
*Ruth is the group leader
Direct
*Ruth is a donor
*Tommy gets picked last

Conflict:
Kathy v. the people who see her as priveleged

Themes:
nostalgia