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“ I saw a few of the incidents myself. But mostly, I heard about them, and when I did, I quiz people until I get a more or less full account.” (Page 14)

This quote is important because I feel like it’s giving us foreshadowing of some answer Kathy is looking for it could be in the people around her at Halshiam because when she says “I quiz people” she is testing those people to find a answer to something she is looking for a question that’s she has or a mystery. But we can definitely tell that she’s is looking for something.

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Create a new post in which you share something you are nostalgic about. Try to explain why. I am nostalgic about this food whenever I eat it. I remember Ramadan and the traditions we have in Ramadan and the vibes. It’s a dessert called Qatayif basically this dessert is only made on Ramadan after fasting we eat it and if I eat it another day that’s not Ramadan I remember the vibes of Ramadan and the family gatherings.

Then, give your opinion on if this nostalgic feeling is a positive or negative force in your life.

It’s positive because it reminds me of good days and family gatherings and staying up late and going to the mosque.

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To what extent can nostalgia of food negatively or positively affect a persons food choices in the future?

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To what extent does nostalgia benefit elderly people’s mental health?

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To what extent do elementary school teachers invoke nostalgia in their former student who have graduated from high school?

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How does childhood nostalgia affect mental and physical health in adulthood?

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Do nostalgic experiences have an influence on the mental health of teenagers with depression?

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How does nostalgia influence consumer behavior in marketing strategies aimed at millennials and Gen Z.

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How does nostalgia influence consumer behavior in marketing strategies aimed at millennials and Gen Z.

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To what extent does nostalgia be viewed as harmful to a persons depression?

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How does food and smell nostalgia affect you compared to thought provoked nostalgia?

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To what extent does nostalgia during childhood years effect the innocence of people as they become adults?

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How does nostalgia about our childhood affect how we view the future and our lives as young adults (20s)

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How does nostalgia about our childhood affect how we view the future and our lives as young adults (20s)

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To what extent does nostalgia negatively affect senior citizens’ mental health?

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To what extent does musical nostalgia affect the wellbeing of individuals in the 21st century?

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To what extent does nostalgia have on the average adult’s daily functional brain performance?

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To what extent does technology use in childhood affect American teenager’s nostalgia perspectives positively or negatively?

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In what ways does nostalgia effect people’s later mental development?

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To what extent does nostalgia negatively effect young adults in America?

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To what extent does nostalgia affect people’s decision making?

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to what extent does nostalage warp the memories of our adolesent years when we are in our 30s?

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To what extent does nostalgia influence your personality and perception of your current life?

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Padlet

round 1:

I agree with what Zavier said about the creativity being evidence about who becomes a carer and who becomes a donor. I agree with Grace about Kathy being very questioning about things. I agree with Zavier with ms lucy telling them not in the calculated way they were supposed to, so that may have been why the guardians got rid of her

I disagree with what Nora said about ms lucy being crazy, because I feel like she was just really angry or frustrated, but not mad per se. She may have been scribbling things that were not good about Hailsham, so she was scribbling over them. On page 91 is said that she was shading like they do in Art.

round 2:

i kinda agree with caylin where ms lucy left of her own accord and Zofia where she was stressed about everything she knew. I agree about ms lucy favoring tommy. i agree about how ruth wanted a sense of self. i agree with Zofia about sales being a way for them to express themselves and also creativity.

i disagree with  Suad about Ruth being llke someone who’s wise, because ruth lies a lot and is always trying to make herself important, like for example the problem is that ruth was bad at chess… that’s what kathy was emphasizing not chess making her smart

round 4

i agree with emmanuel him about lucy talking about them being created, and his arguments about them being created. i agree with london about. I kinda agree with sophia. i agree with sophia that the teachers are

i disagree with emmanuel about them being at hailsham as ais to develop their feelings to be more like ai but i like his explanation

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To what extent does nostalgia effect your view points on your future career?

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To what extent does nostalgia effect young adults to continue being motivated in their everyday lifestyles?

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Evaluate the impact nostalgia has on an adults mindset and moods when it comes to their present day life

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To what extent does nostalgia affect people’s emotional well being and mental health?

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To what extent can nostalgia be beneficial to the mental wellbeing of teenagers experiencing high levels of stress in high school?

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Why does nostalgia hit some people so much harder than others, if there is a reason?

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To what extent should Nostalgia be viewed as a positive aspect in a social setting in the current 21st century?

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To what extent does food create nostalgia relating to childhood meals?

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I disagree with Yasmin about the children/students of Hailsham being taken from their actual parents in the outside or real world. I believe that they were cloned. I believe if they were taken from their parents; want or not. There will be a notice of missing children and people around getting suspicious about it. Also clones makes more medically sense because if they wanted to increase the chances of better organ donation clones will suffice because it the same DNA and the bodies should accept the new organs. This being said I believe people who could afford it make their own clones to get the organs.

With Mr. Pyziks proposed question about authorities in Richards viewing us as not humanistic. I believe not necessarily but a view of us being stupid children and us being different then them and their generation. Often on social media or networks I view comments with a disdain tone about “gen z” ers. Also older generations talking about my/our generation  comparing both generations and going g along the lines of “we were never like that” and etc.

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I agree with what Sofia said about how the guardians brainwashed the kids , explaining how Mrs.Emily has a “6th” sense. This brainwashing aspect can be seen through the hail sham students not being surprised as stated by Kathy. This can also be referred Tommys theory about hailsham guardians giving students certain amounts of info to manipulate them knowing about donations and caring

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Their discussion made me think of a theory that the students were created as clones of people who are in the “real world” or just the world outside of these schools like hailsham. They were made from the same DNA of those people, so when their organs start failing they get to live longer. Maybe Madame is collecting art for the students benefit, in order to prove that they are smart and creative and actual people instead of just bags of meat for people to use without a second thought. The “evidence” Mrs. Lucy was talking about, and her reason for them needing to be creative is evidence that they could maybe be spared because it is evidence they are actually human and not something to be used for parts.

I disagree with Emanuel when he mentioned how he thinks it’s possible for the students to not be human, and he used the example that they were “created” I think they were possibly born in a lab for the purpose of raising to take their organs, but that still means they are human. And, if they have organs in the first place they have to be human and can’t be A.I. or anything else.

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I agree with Amar on the point where the people who own hailsham and receive all of the organs have to be very wealthy. The whole hailsham experience is similar to a boarding school and boarding school has to be paid for somehow. So since there has been no mention of parents who pay for the kids education, the whole operation has to be funded, so my guess is that the selling of the Donated organs is a very lucrative business and the people who reap the rewards of selling organ fund hailsham.

I agree with Emmanuel of the topic of the kids being created and the purpose Behind art and how it has significance towards how human the children are and to access how emotional and human like the kids are.

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I disagree with Suad (Sorry.. its the second time but its what jumped at me) that emotions result in Humanity, and that’s partially why the children could be humans. There are so many people in this world who lack emotions, epathy, and can’t sympathize. This wouldn’t make all of those people non-humans— just insensitive or awkward. I feel like the definition of humanity is being born from a real birth— no artificiality. This is similar to what Sophia said as well. However, I think emotions is partially what makes Madame cry when she sees Kathy dancing with the pillow. Kathy becomes humanized in her eyes.

I agree with Manny about the kids at Hailsham not being human. Yasmeen, I think, was arguing that the kids at Hailsham are people… As Manny so eloquently stated, the guardians keep using the word “Created”. In the previous round, Jolie talks about the students being clones, and I agree with this. That’s the only thing that would explain how there’s children that get “created”.  Furthermore, students in Hailsham can’t have babies and have their whole lives set ahead of them— this just solidifies the fact that the students at Hailsham aren’t human.

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I agree with Sophia about how Ruth may want to take certain characteristics about Kathy. Ruth in the movie has been shown to be observing and watching Kathy as well in the book. Since Ruth personality of selfish mean girl persona may dismay people to form an actual relationship with her. Therefore she looks at Kathy and despite Kathy not having many strong relationships people still like Kathy because she has kind traits and she has one meaningful relationship with Tommy. Tommy also has been said to tell Ruth about Kathy being a great friend. Overall it makes sense why Ruth will want to take Kathys traits because deep down she’s lonely.

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i feel like the author want us to see their humanity because they all act different. and they all have their own feeling so if he didn’t want us to see that, why would he show us those moments?

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I completely agree with Emmanuel on the topic of if the students are human. There are clues hinting that they aren't human. Clones are known to act extremely similar to who they are cloned by. They also are trained in ways to grow emotions with isnt natural.

They are required to be creative even after a guardian tells Tommy it isnt needed to be creative a few days later she tells him otherwise.

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I agree with Emmanuel when he said that the students are human- like but aren’t entirely humans.The reason I agree is because Mrs Lucy said that they were created no other purpose than to be donors and that humans wouldn’t only be used for one purpose. But seems as if Hailsham kids are less open minded than normal humans would be because Hailsham kids don’t have as much emotion or sense of reality than kids in the open world would.

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I think that being birthed and having feelings makes you humanized. Also the idea of giving human life and naturing to children is important too because it shows that you can sympathize and grow emotionally with others.

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I disagree with hailsham kids being ai i think they are not humans but i dont think ai

I agree with London certain smells and foods wirh trigger nostalgia and bring back either good or bad memories depending on how your last memory with that food or smell was

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I disagree with Sofia on her thoughts about why they showed Ruth instead of Madame in the movie. I don’t think that they wanted to show Ruth “stealing” Kathy’s traits, I think that the movie creators were trying to go more in depth on Kathy and Ruth’s relationship. There are so many things that the book can tell us that the movie can’t and this is one way the movie added character depth.

I agree with Amar that the kids are not clones. However, I do think that it’s possible that the kids are MAKING clones. We’ve never been told what the organs being donated are for. Mr. Pyzik said that there’s themes including AI, and maybe the kids’ organs are being donated to make the “perfect” human.

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I disagree with the that what makes humans a human is emotions beacuse not all humans have emotion some people are born with stuff that can affect your emotions. Also you can creative AI with emotions and they’re not humans.

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I disagree with how hailsham kids are just “normal humans”. I think these kids have their genetics and DNA created in a lab. There’s so much technology and scienctist around to make it possible. There’s so much we don’t know in the world. They could’ve made or created programming into the kids. They also have chips in their arms, it could be to keep tract of their creations.

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Agree- I agree with the idea that smell is a big trigger of nostalgia, I have experienced this many times in my life. When I smell a familiar smell I get reminded of past events in my life that the smell was present in, like when I smell pumpkin pie I think back on my past thanksgiving’s and Christmas's.

Agree-I agree with Omar’s idea that humans are defined by being naturally born by another human.

Disagree-I do not agree with Sofia that the guardians are brainwashed, because who would be brainwashing them? Is there a higher power present?

Disagree-I don’t agree with Jolie’s idea that the kids are clones of the guardians, because then everyone would be the same and not have different personalities, which they do have.

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i agree that it is a little odd that all of the teachers are women. i also think that they are not clones because then they would all be the same

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i agree with amar, there is no way this is hidden, i think is know but there js seen as livestock.

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I disagree with one of the statements said about the students of Hailsham being immortal therefore they really don’t mind donating their vital organs. I don’t think supernatural elements are in NLMG at all. I believe that that students have just been manipulated so that they don’t think how this is much different from the real outside world. With words like “special” be repeated and drilled into their brains they associated that good positive word to their own jobs. Such as them being seen as greater or heroes.

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I do agree that certain things like food, smell, and even people can trigger some sort of nostalgia. For the NLMG book, if Kathy some doner that she recognized it could trigger some sort of memory of Hailsam.

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I disagree that Ruth wants to be more like Kathy, I feel like it is vise versa. Kathy is more a follower of Ruth, she wants Ruth to like her and listens to what Ruth tells her, she wants to impress Ruth. I do not think Ruth is trying to impress Kathy, Ruth is just herself. Ruth and Kathy do have different personalities but I do not think Ruth wants to be like Kathy.

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I agree with Amar when he said that going back to a place brings nostalgia because of the memories you had there. I can relate to this by going back to cousin’s houses or my uncles house where they used to host Thanksgiving which always bring back memories anytime I go there.

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I disagree that Ruth was trying be like Kathy because in my opinion Ruth is ruthless and Kathy is the one who is following and is a people pleaser to Ruth.

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I agree that food can bring nostalgia. When I have certain foods especially ones that I had when I was little and haven’t had since then it definitely brings back certain memories and causes me to be nostalgic about them.

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i dissage with the first persons pov on the postive memories. studeis show the the human mind is more adept at recalli ng negtive memorieds, its a defence meconisom. however kathy does recall more postive memories but thats also another defence meconisom, when one goes through something very tramatic their mind will compolety bleach is causing them to forget. i belive this is why she struggles to recall alot of things her mind just couldnt bare it.

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I agree with Yasmeen about the perfume, sometimes when I put on a perfume I have not worn in a while it brings a lot of nostalgia to me. I start to think about that era in my life, sometimes I will miss it and sometimes I do not like to remember that part. I thing smell and nostalgia go heavily together.

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Since the consumption and smell of food gives you a pleasant memory, I think it can directly relate to the book. Certain smells of food can remind you of childhood. In present time, Kathy is attached to her past. She tries to find hailsham constantly which related to her childhood memories.

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Different things can make you nostalgic such as clothing and food. I agree because for me it is certain places or smells that can make me nostalgic.

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I relate a lot with what Chiamaka said about Mrs. Lucy’s revealing of exactly what will happen to the students of hailsham when they grow up marking a time when the students don’t joke around about being donors.. Mrs. Lucy’s talk about all the students becoming donors is a period of transition from embracing happy childhood memories/being careless to accepting the solemn truth that they were going to die, that they weren’t normal, that their whole life was set out for them. I also think that this event is what resulted in Mrs. Lucy getting fired/vanishing. Since Mrs.Lucy probably strayed from the calculated leaking of information the other guardians managed, Hailsham supervisors/guardians probably didn’t like this, and dealt with the problem.

I don’t really know her name, but I have a feeling it was Percea Ball who said that the guardians have superpowers. I strongly disagree with this— I have a feeling that the guardians are outsiders with outstanding merits who had the opportunity to teach at such a special school like Hailsham… As for Mrs. Emily knows where everyone’s hiding and stuff, that probably comes from years of experience. The guardians do not have superpowers.

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I agree that when Madame saw Kathy singing and dancing that she humanizes her. When madame sees Kathy it said that she feared up when she saw that. My thought is that she is so used to seeing the students of Hailsham behaving the same and that seeing Kathy made her realize that she is adopting more human norms.

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I liked 5the theory that the art was only to keep a record of the student being alive/attending Hailsham. I don’t have any evidence to back it up, it just seems very likely.

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I agree with Demetrius when he stated he believes that Ruth just wants power.  When Ruth was starting to pay attention to Kathy she made a game about horses. She started controlling what Kathy did and how she played with the so called “horses”. Ruth’s character throught out the plot so far likes taking thinks and being control. One could say she took Tommy from Kathy for example Ruth does state how Kathy and Tommy were/are so close. I believe Ruth deep down didn’t like that so she decided to take Tommy away. Again Ruth seems to be a power hungry selfish person.

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Demetrius said that Ruth was power driven, and I agree because I think that she has showed many times in the book that she wants control over other people, and always tries to get what she wants. This is shown as early as when they first became friends with Kathy not being able to ride the pretend horse. She is a very self-centered person and isn’t a good friend to Kathy.

I disagree when Jolie said that the students at hailsham are fine with the fact that they will only live very short lives because they believe it is their purpose and they are doing something very important. I disagree, because I think they don’t understand the extent of the situation, especially because there were two kids talking to one another about what they wanted to do in the future. I think they are just ignorant, and the only reason they are so complacent with their situation is because they don’t know any better, and have been raised to not think more about it.

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I agreed with Demetrius on his point that Ruth wants power, he mentions that she controlled Kathy when they played horses. I Agree with him because we have seen all over the book Ruth wanting power. She was the person in the friend group who everyone wants to agree with. I can also mention how Ruth was secretive and a controlling leader of the secret guardians club. Ruth consistently is in positions of social power over her peers, and from these examples we can conclude that Ruth loves and wants power.

I agreed with Jolie and Chiamaka when they talk about how people humanized dogs, but dehumanize people who work in Chinese sweat shops. I’ve found that people will ignore certain parts of businesses or life that they are politically opposed to if they benefit from the results of said actions.

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I believe the students are complacent with the fact they are going to die because there is simply nothing they can do about it. They always knew there was something strange about themselves to some degree, so when they found out the truth it could have possibly been a relief for the students. They finally know their purpose, so they live out their days as best a they know how to.

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I disagre with Jolie because I think the only reason that Kathy likes her job isn't because she is good at it but because she likes to please the people around her. She puts peoples needs above her needs.

Adding on to what Chimaka said on page 74 i noticed Kathy say "Ruth had been looking out for something nice to do" this shows that Ruth could be nice if she wanted to be nice. It also shows us that she is a nice person from the inside but tries to show people that she is tough maybe because she is missing something in who she is or who she became from her childhood.

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I disagree with Percea when she said that she thinks that Miss Lucy was writing a note. I think that she was just using the pen and paper as a way to take out her anger.

I agree with Demetrius saying that the guardians play a big role in the kids coming to terms with their purpose. I think that the way that the guardians slowly revealed it and the way that they worded things helped the kids not freak out about it.

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I disagree about how the Hailshame students don’t care if they’re a donor or carer. I think they really do care about it and are learning to care about it. Like when Mrs Lucy told Tommy about how creativity matters with their future, Tommy starts to think about his creativity. He shows he starts to care about it and his future.

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I agree because Kathy really is just like a people pleaser and wants other people to be happy

I agree with the comment that saying that the guardians are making it clear to this kids that they have to be donors and control them witch is a big part of the way they act

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I agree that Ruth wants power, I think her bullying him when she did showed that but also her kissing him shows that, because not only does she have power over Tommy, but by taking him away from Kathy she has power over her too.

I disagree that the kids don’t know what normal is, because the kids were talking about their own dreams, like moving to America or becoming actors, which shows that they know that people do have other lives, and even if they don’t know that that might be “normal” I think they know it’s a life drastically different than their own.

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I agree with Demetrius when he said that the children are inhumane because they laughed at people committing suicide. Jolie said before that there is a boundary that the Hailsham kids aren’t completely inhuman because they share characteristics in humans, but they also aren’t quite like humans.I’d like to add on that Hailsham kids were raised all the same way in the same place, so maybe they don’t learn common sense that you would learn from being with other people from other places.

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I disagree with when someone said that the Hailsham students do not care that they will eventually be donors/carers. The more they grew the more serious the students got about it, students would talk about this topic more and more and start to talk among each other about their future of carer/donor. When Kathy and Tommy were talking they were explaining how they knew they did not have much time left at Hailsham before they start their futures, indicating they know what is before them and they do care about it.

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I agree with Kamiya to an extent, but also believe that Tommy’s motivation changed after his talk with Ms. Lucy. After the talk he began to be driven by finding his own purpose in life instead of trying to be good at art and fitting in with the other students. This also most likely resulted in quite the shock when Ms. Lucy suddenly left Hailsham.

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i also want to know why they just except the fact that they have to donate their organs and die young because it seems like somthing that they would be more concerned about and not just come to terms with so easily.

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Someone said that they think they’re not real human beings but I disagree because how would they be organ donors if they’re not real. Also how could they have organs if they’re robots for example.

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I really liked Jolie’s analogy of eating dogs being immoral, but eating cats is more normalized to demonstrate crossing lines/boundaries.

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i agree that mrs lucy tried to teach the kids how to cope with their emotions and show them that they aren’t like everyone else was a very special thing to her character.

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(This probably isn’t going to be the best reply since mine got deleted when I tried to log-in, and I couldn’t rectify it right after, so I may have to remember from someone else’s answers.. However, I can guarantee that my first version was really good).

I agreed with Audrey when she said that Mrs. Lucy isn’t scribbling out of anger/frustration, but primarily because of worry. As Audrey said, Mrs. Lucy probably figured something out or learned something that made her panic and possibly regret what she told Tommy and potentially other students. My personal opinion is that Mrs. Lucy found out the real importance of being creative… Maybe the more creative you are, the longer you’re a carer. This could also be why Mrs. Lucy tells Tommy to forget everything.

There was one primary thing I disagreed with… Ruth being smart and good at chess. This was said by Suad, and I can personally verify that pieces don’t just go in L shapes in chess. Ruth isn’t smart, but as Amesley said, a pathological lair. Ruth makes up the facts of being good at chess and many other things to get attention- to seem more authoritative than she is. We see evidence of this when Ruth always tries to avoid teaching Kathy chess.

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I agree with what jolie said about Madame when she saw Kathy listening to the song it humanized her bc from the beginning of when madame was introduced she was shown to think of these kids as inhuman and felt disgust from them for some reason, ut when she Kathy listening to that song she saw something other than a monster but instead a human being

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I agree when they said that Miss Lucy favorited Tommy because Tommy always feels more left out because he is an outcast and his artwork isn’t the best so miss Lucy makes sure that Tommy gets the attention he needs.

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I agree that Ruth only cares about herself and wants all the power. Shes really bossy and always wants what is best for her. She lies to make herself look better, like when she lied about the pencil case and her knowing how to play chess. She lies to seem better than everyone else.

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I agree with Jolie that one of the reasons Kathy is a good carer is a very caring and patient person. She has a caring personality and puts other before herself which is a characteristic that stands out about Kathy. The reason she has been a carer for so long because she has a lot of patience to understand people

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Kathy is a people pleaser - I agree because she is always following what Ruth does even though she probably didn’t agree with her. She also was the one to cheer Tommy up when everyone was bullying him.

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I think the theory that Ruth wanted power over Tommy and Kathy is very accurate. There are multiple instances where Ruth will do say one thing, but do the complete opposite soon after

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I agree when Demetrius said that Ruth is the one trying to control Kathy saying how Kathy is the one that cares about everyone and she is a people’s person. Ruth always wants to be the one that gets all the attention.

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Miss Lucy favorited Tommy the most because he was always an outcast. Miss Lucy felt bad for him so she would always try to talk to him and explain that he can do a lot of things if he wanted to.

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I agree with kamaya bc she said that Tommy’s motivation is to fit in with him always being left out and being an outcast which is true bc in the first few chapters he’s shown to have outbreaks over not being picked in sports and being made fun of for being bad at art

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Correction: On page 52 I was reveled to us that Ruth is a chess player which in my opinion can tell us a lot about her characteristics. When I think about chess players I think that They think very deep about where they want to move the things on the chess board and to me that shows that Kathy thinks deeply before making decisions in her life. Do you think that peoples certain skills determine who they are and how they think?

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I agree with Grace about the Hailsham students viewing each other as family. With Kathy and Ruth’s relationship this may answer why Kathy constantly helps Ruth’s and doesn’t go against her. From keeping up with Ruth’s lies to taking Tommy when Ruth most definitely knows Kathy and Tommy were close. Kathy had an opportunity to “dethrone” the popular girl Ruth. But she didn’t on page 60“ for once she was at a complete loss for words and had turned away at the verge of tears”… “ all this effort, all this planning just upset, my dearest friend” .This shows how despite everything Kathy still doesn’t take the chance to put Ruth down because she clearly does care about Ruth and this can be because all they have is each other, they are their family.

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I agree with Desiree when she was talking about the caste tape. The students really don’t know who they are especially when Ms.Lucy told them the news about being a carer or doner. The student are just trying to find who they are as a person besides their purpose at Hailsham.

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I agree that when Ruth walked by when Kathy was singing, that it was building up her character.Some others said that she looked at Kathy judgmentally which is what I disagree with. I think Ruth was looking at Kathy empathetically because she didn’t say anything bad, and after, they became friends and had a strong relationship with one another.

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I agree with a lot of the others that Madame cried because she felt guilty about the kids at Hailsham not being able to have children or a future of their own. To add on to this Madame is most likely the ringleader of the whole operation at Hailsham, and this was a sign that she could possibly be having a change of heart.

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I agree with Amesley when she was talking to Ruth. She definitely try’s to become better than everyone and she try’s to be good at everything.

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I disagree with Zosia on the subject of why Miss Lucy was scribbling on paper, I believe that she was not writing words or anything legible because Kathy mentions that it looked like the shading that they do in art class. So I don’t think it was writing because shading does not look like words.

I agree with Desiree on the matter that the kids are cooping with their life in the jokes that they make when they are in groups. The children would make jokes about donations or what life would be like after they left Hailsham, I believe they did this to cover up or hide the dark truths that were in their future, how they would donate and die fairly quickly afterwards. They would make jokes to lighten their futures and make them brighter.

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I Think zofias question about Ruth Tommy and Kathy’s persantily was a very good question and Audrey’s answers about nostalgia being the reason was really good it showed how they reacted and nostalgia affected Kathy’s point of view

I like zofia Desiree and Audrey’s comments on how Ruth was a liar but had a big heart and this could be a effect of nostalgia

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I agree with Audrey bc she says how when Ishiguro as Kathy looks at the past she remembers Ruth and Tommy in a brighter light and sees them more vividly bc that’s who she was always with, compared to other kids she was with who obviously in the book don’t have as many lines and memory’s of them. People typically forget things that don’t have a huge significance to them just like how Kathy basically forgot the not so important interactions she had with other students rather than with Ruth and Tommy who she remembers almost everything.

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Why did Miss Lucy favor Tommy? I believe it was because his lack of creativity and his behavior/temper tantrums. I think Miss Lucy feels sorry for Tommy’s lack of creativity because it is very important at Hailsham to be creative. I also think she wanted to help with the bullying he was facing.

Why are the other kids personalities bland compared to Kathy? I believe Kathy wanted to be rebellious against the rules of Hailsham. When Kathy plays the tape, she’s always secretive about it and this shows how she is probably different from most of the kids of Hailsham. They also wear the same uniforms so that can also make them all seem like clones.

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I disagree with why Ruth and Tommy are more “emotional” than the others. I don’t think it’s just because they’re close with Kathy so we only see their viewpoint. I think those specific kids have a more special power than the others. Tommy is teased and DIFFERENT from anyone else while Ruth is more manipulative. They’re more normal like.

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I agree that Mrs. Lucy chose to leave, I think that she’s a lot more humane than the others at Hailsham and she didn’t want to see these kids live and grow up just for them to die and never accomplish their dreams.

I disagree that certain skills would give people certain characteristics, I think it seems like a stretch and I just think that it doesn’t make sense in the context of the book.

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I agree with Desiree that the guard had something to do with miss Lucy not working at hailsham anymore. I also feel as tho Audrey’s question on how Tommy was bullied mainly was because he was not as creative as everyone else so maybe miss Lucy favored him because she felt bad for him and as they both got to know each other Tommy realized he was still really cool as a person.