Never Let Me Go Annotations by Caitlin Born https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2018-10-09 16:24:09 UTC 2025-09-24 18:47:26 UTC hello@padlet.com Chapter One cborn https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/290853417 Quotes:
  • "I know when to hang around and comfort them, when to leave them to themselves; when to listen to everything they have to say, and when just to shrug and tell them to snap out of it" (Ishiguro 12). Kathy has been a carer for almost twelve years and she has  a good intuition.
  • "Tommy burst into thunderous bellowing, and the boys, now laughing openly, started to run off toward the South Playing Field"(Ishiguro 21). In sports, Tommy was always chosen last, even though he was one of the best players. The boys did it on purpose to get him worked up and make him upset. 

Characters: 
  • Kathy: Kathy has been a carer for almost twelve years. She grew up at Hailsham, which sounds like a nice place to grow up. She has found memories of it. Anytime Kathy would look for Hailsham while she was driving, she could never find it.
  • Ruth: Ruth and Kathy both went to Hailsham and were close friends. Ruth is a donor that Kathy cares for. Ruth appears to be the leader of their friend group at Hailsham.
  • Tommy: Tommy went to Hailsham too. He was constantly picked on and made fun of. He is known for his temper tantrums. He was tried to be creative and he never put anything in for the Spring Exchange.

Conflict: 
  • Tommy was not picked for a sports team, even though he was one of the best players. The boys did this to make him upset. Tommy is constantly picked on. 

Themes: 
  • The idea of nostalgia - Kathy has found memories of Hailsham and the sports Pavlovian: "We loved our sports pavilion, maybe because it reminded us of those sweet little cottages people had in picture books when we were young (Ishiguro 16).
]]> 2018-10-09 16:25:37 UTC https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/290853417 Chapter Two cborn https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/291508302 Quotes
  • "It's all part of what made Hailsham so special ... The way we were encouraged to value each other's work" (Ishiguro 33). Ruth and Kathy were reminiscing over the times at Hailsham. They truly loved their time at Hailsham and believed that they learned many valuable lessons their.
  • "Then it all stopped, not overnight, but rapidly enough. I was, as I say, watching the situation closely around then, so I saw the signs before most of the others" (Ishiguro 40). Kathy was always watching and observing those at Hailsham, especially Tommy. She cared for Tommy. This was a turning point in Tommy's life. This is when he began to learn to control his temper.
        
Characters:
  • Kathy: Kathy is always watching and observing. While at Hailsham, she truly cared for Tommy. Kathy cared for Ruth after her first donation. 
  • Ruth: Ruth has just finished recovering from her first donation. Kathy cared for Ruth after her first donation.
  • Tommy: Tommy is not very creative. He was constantly picked on and made fun of, until he had a turning point in his life. 
  • Miss Lucy: She was the most supportive guardian at Hailsham. She told Tommy that  it was all right not to be creative.
  • Arthur H.: One of Tommy's biggest tormentors. 

Conflict:
  • Kathy tried to talk to Tommy about why he has been feeling better and acting happier. She got made at Tommy because she thought he was lying to her and being betrayed. Tommy asked her to meet him by the pond after lunch to talk about it.
  • Tommy is left out because he is not creative. Being creative is there only way of being individuals and different (individuality).

Themes:
  • The world of children vs. the world of adults- Kathy remembers how poetry was so important when she was younger. Now, she doesn't even truly understand why they would have chose poetry over paintings at the Spring Exchange.
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  • "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" (Ishiguro 64). This happened when Madame came to select the best artwork from Hailsham. Kathy and her five friends decided to "swarm" Madame to see if she was afraid of them as Ruth believed. 
  • "It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange" (Ishiguro 66). Kathy is becoming aware that there may be something different about the students. 

Characters:
  • Kathy: Kathy is very observant. She has unanswered questions about some unexplained things at Hailsham. 
  • Ruth: Ruth realized that Madame was scared of the students at Hailsham and told her friends about it.
  • Tommy: Tommy told Kathy about his conversation with Miss Lucy. Miss Lucy told him that they weren't being taught enough and she was furious, literally shaking with rage.
  • Miss Lucy: Guardian who talked to Tommy and made him feel better about himself for not being creative. She also told him that they were not learning enough and she was angry that they weren't told a lot of things.
  • Madame: A French or Belgian woman who would come before the Gallery two to four times a year to select the students best work. She is scared of the students.

Conflict:
  • Ruth told Kathy and her friends that Madame was scared of the students at Hailsham. They argued about it for a few days. Then they developed a plan to test their theory.
  • The students struggle figuring out there identities.
Themes:
  • The idea of nostalgia- Kathy is remembering her time at Hailsham and trying to accurately recount her memories. 
]]> 2018-10-16 01:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/293124215 Chapter Four cborn https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/293124447 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" (Ishiguro 73). Mrs. Lucy is responding to Polly's question regarding Madame taking their best artwork and poetry. Mrs. Lucy seems to want the children to have more information than they are being given. 
  • "But I realized now just how much of what occurred later came out of our time at Hailsham, and that's why I want first to go over these earlier memories quite carefully" (Ishiguro 67). Kathy is analyzing her memories of Hailsham and her relationships with Ruth and Tommy. 

Characters:
  • Kathy: She is thinking back on old memories. She remembers what Miss Lucy told Tommy about the students not being "taught enough" about something. Kathy mentions that there are a lot of places to hide, like there are many secrets about this place.
  • Ruth: Ruth invited Kathy to ride her horses. They pretended to ride horses together.
  • Miss Lucy: Miss Lucy tells the class that she hopes one day things will be explained to the students.

Conflict: 
  • When Madame came to select their best work, those students wouldn't then get any tokens at the Exchange. Therefore, they wouldn't have tokens for the Sales. Many of the students were upset by this, even though they were expected to feel honored that their work was chosen.

Themes: 
  • The world of children vs. the world of adults- Kathy is becoming aware that there is something the Guardians are keeping from the students. The students are being kept in the dark...
]]> 2018-10-16 01:29:40 UTC https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/293124447 Landscape cborn https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/293423553 2018-10-16 15:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/293423553 Chapter 5 cborn https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/293423649 Quotes:
  • "The woods were at the top of the hill that rose behind Hailsham House. All we could see really was a dark fringe of trees, but I certainty wasn't the only one of my age to feel their presence day and night" (Ishiguro 87). Rumors went around Hailsham that if students left Hailsham horrible things happened, including children dying. Kathy always feared what was in the woods and felt the safest when she was at the front of the main house because you couldn't see the woods through the front windows.
  • "We sheltered there for a while, and every so often a student would come running out of the fog and in through the doors of the house, but the rain didn't ease. And the longer we continued to stand there, the more tense I grew because I could see this was the opportunity I'd been waiting for" (Ishiguro 103). For a while, Ruth left Kathy out of her secret society. Kathy decided to confront Ruth for implying that Miss Geraldine gave her the pencil case when she didn't. Kathy realized that this hurt Ruth's feelings and felt awful about it.

Characters:
  • Kathy: Kathy realized that Ruth couldn't play chess, but acted like she could. This hurt Kathy's feelings and as a result, Ruth ignored Kathy and kept her out of their secret group. Kathy later decided to confront Ruth about her pencil case.
  • Ruth: Ruth created a group that "protected" Miss Geraldine. Ruth had a pencil case and implied that Miss Geraldine gave it to her. Kathy confronted her and Ruth ignored her for this.
  • Miss Geraldine: She was Ruth's favorite Guardian. Ruth created a secret group to "protect" her. Kathy had a secret path she liked to take that looked into windows showing the rooms. One day she saw Miss Geraldine talking to herself. She saw Kathy, but never confronted her for this.

Conflict
  • Whenever Kathy and Ruth walked by somebody playing chess, Ruth would tell Kathy that they could have played a better move. Kathy bought a Chess set and wanted Ruth to teach her to play, which resulted in Kathy learning that Ruth didn't know how to play.
  • Kathy confronts Ruth for lying about who she received her pencil case from. Kathy felt awful for confronting her own friend like that.

Theme:
  • The idea of nostalgia- Kathy is remember her time at Hailsham with Ruth and the "secret guard" they were a part of. Kathy remembered how Ruth was the leader of their group and she caught Ruth in several lies. Despite the lies, Kathy still protected Ruth and didn't want to upset her. 
  • Theme of group mentality: All of the girls want to be in Ruth's secret group. They don't want to be expelled from it and they all like working together to protect Miss Geraldine. Because Ruth told them to protect her, they all believed her.

]]> 2018-10-16 15:44:16 UTC https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/293423649 Chapter 6 cborn https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/293423818 Quotes:
  • "Little things like these might well have pleased Ruth, but they were still far removed from what had actually happened between us under the eaves that foggy day, and the sense that I'd never be able to sort things just continued to grow" (Ishiguro 108). After Kathy confronted Ruth, she felt awful for treating her friend like that, so she did little things to let Ruth know that she didn't mean to hurt her. Their talk occurred in the pouring rain under the eaves, making the scene seem dreary.
  • "I suppose it had something to do with it being a secret, just how much it had meant to me. Maybe all of us at Hailsham had little secrets like that - little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone with our fears and longings" (Ishiguro 127). Kathy kept her tape a secret because it had a picture of a cigarette on it and she adored it. Kathy wondered if everybody at Hailsham had secrets and secret hidden spots where they would go to think and be by themselves.

Characters:
  • Kathy: Kathy dances to her tape and was spotted by Madame. Kathy lost her tape and thought back on all of her memories of the tape. She also wondered why stories about the woods were told and why the students were so special.
  • Ruth: Kathy and Ruth made up and did favors for each other. Ruth gave Kathy a tape when she lost hers. 
  • Tommy: Tommy and Kathy talk about how it's odd that Madame cried when she saw Kathy dancing. Anytime teachers mentioned anything strange about the students future, Kathy and Tommy would talk about it in secret.
  • Miss Lucy: Students asked Miss Lucy if she had ever smoked. She told them that she had, but the students here are special and cannot smoke because of what it would do to their bodies and they are super important.
  • Madame: She spotted Kathy dancing to "Never Let Me Go," pretending to be holding a baby. She did not confront Kathy and bring up the topic. She just watched her and cried and then walked away shaking.

Conflicts:
  • Kathy confronted Ruth about implying that Miss Geraldine giving her a pencil case. Kathy made Ruth feel terrible. Kathy tried to make it up to her through nice little things. Kathy lost her favorite tape and went around asking her friends if they had seen it. 
  • Kathy was spotted dancing by Madame and Madame began crying and walked away. Kathy and Tommy believe that it is because the students at Hailsham are unable to have children.

Themes:
  • The idea of nostalgia- Kathy recounts more memories of her time at Hailsham. She remembers her favorite tape and dancing to the music.
]]> 2018-10-16 15:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/293423818 Chapter Seven cborn https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/294124596 Quotes:
  • "It's just as well the fences at Hailsham aren't electrified. You get terrible accidents sometimes" (Ishiguro 134). Mrs. Lucy made this statement in class while the students were discussing World War ll prison camps. Mrs. Lucy knows about the outside world and wants to subtly warn the kids at Hailsham. 
  • "Your lives are set out for you. You'll become adults, then before you're old, before you're even middle aged, you'll start to donate your vital organs. That's what each of you was created to do" (Ishiguro 138-139). Mrs. Lucy told the students clearly what had been alluded to since they were young. She told them that they would be donors. 
  • "None of us stopped to think how she felt, Miss Lucy herself. We never worried if she got into trouble, saying what she did to us. We were so selfish back then" (Ishiguro 151).
Characters: 
  • Kathy: Kathy was always watching Miss Lucy. The early days at Hailsham were innocent and happy, then as they got older, they pieced together things and their lives took a darker turn.
  • Tommy: Tommy stopped having his tantrums. He cut his elbow and the boys told him his whole elbow would unzip if he bent his arm. Eventually, the joke went from being about Tommy to being about the students one day becoming donors and being unzipped to give their organs away.
  • Miss Lucy: She told the students that there were things that they were told and were not told. She told them that they would not become actors, go to America, or work in stores. She told them they were donors and were born specifically to become donors.
  • Miss Emily: She gave the students the sex talk. She told them they can't have sex with outsiders because sex is more important to them since they can actually have babies, unlike the students at Hailsham. 
Conflict 
  •   The students at Hailsham joked about Tommy's elbow unzipping. It became a running joke. Later, the jokes became about the students unzipping to give away their organs.
Themes:
  • The limited number of years we have on earth and how we use our time: Miss Lucy explained to the students that they would never be actors, or go to American, or work at a store. She told them that they were going to be donors. 

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  • "After that morning I became convinced something else - perhaps something awful - lay around the corner to do with Miss Lucy, and I kept my eyes and ears open for it" (Ishiguro 156). It is clear that the guardians are supposed to keep the kids mostly in the dark about what will happen to them. Miss Lucy is conflicted and tells the kids more than she is supposed to. 
  • "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" (Ishiguro 166). The kids were getting older and experimenting with sex. Kathy was contemplating having sex with Harry. 
Characters:
  •  Kathy: She received a creative calendar from a student a few years younger than her. Her and Tommy didn't talk as much as they used to. She showed Tommy the calendar and it hurt his feelings because it reminded him the he wasn't creative. Kathy wants to have sex with Harry. She believes that since everybody is doing it that she has to do it. Kathy thought she heard gas and went to check. She ended up walking in on Miss Lucy madly writing in a small room.
  • Ruth: Ruth and Tommy have been dating for 6 months. The are not a show off couple. Ruth believes that Hailsham guardians tell the kids they should have sex, but they also shouldn't because she believes they mean they should have safe sex, but after they leave Hailsham.
  • Tommy: Tommy was offended by the creative calendar that Kathy showed him. Also, he was picked on since he sat it mud and it looked like he pooped himself.
  • Miss Lucy: In a small room, she was writing madly. There were small pieces of paper everywhere on the table.
Conflict 
  •   Tommy had gotten mud on the lower back of his shirt. Laura made fun of him. Tommy was clearing upset, but did not blow up. He just walked away.
Themes:
  • The limited number of years we have on earth and how we use our time: The kids were clearly focused on sex. They were fascinated by it and talked about it all the time. "If everyone who claimed to be doing it really had been, then that's all you'd have seen when you walked about Hailsham- couples going at it left, right and centre." (Ishiguro 165)
]]> 2018-10-17 22:41:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/294124618 Chapter Nine cborn https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/294124649 Quotes:
  • "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" (Ishiguro 172). Kathy saw Harry at the hospital after he had donated an organ. Kathy was not in a good mood because the patent she had been caring for had just passed away. 
  • "Yeah, and he really respects you. I know because he's often talked about it. How you've got guts and how you always do what you say you're going to do" (Ishiguro 177). Ruth was talking to Kathy, asking her to talk to Tommy and help try to get them back together. 
  • "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" (Ishiguro 184). Miss Lucy told this to Tommy.
  • "The students who leave here, they never find out much. Why should you be any different?" (Ishiguro 185). Miss Lucy was telling this to Tommy. She clearly feels the need to try to help Tommy.
Characters: 
  •  Kathy: Kathy donors completed. Kathy and Tommy talk about Miss Lucy and how she told Tommy his art work was rubbish.
  • Ruth: She asked Kathy to talk to Tommy and convince him to get back together with Ruth.
  • Tommy: Kathy and Tommy had a talk about Tommy's conversation with Miss Lucy about how he needs to be more creative. Tommy and Ruth got back together.
  • Miss Lucy: She told Tommy to be more creative. She always left Hailsham.
  • Miss Emily: Taught Miss Lucy's class and during the class she told the students that Miss Lucy left Hailsham.
  • Harry: He is a donor who Kathy wanted to sleep with.
Conflict 
  •   "Then suddenly - right in mid-sentence, apparently - Miss Emily had broken off from talking about Beethoven and announced that Miss Lucy had left Hailsham and wouldn't be returning" (Ishiguro 188). It is not explained why Miss Lucy suddenly left Hailsham. 
  • "The other boys were animated, maybe excited even, but Tommy's eyes looked empty. That very evening, Tommy and Ruth got back together again... "(Ishiguro 189). Tommy gave up and settled for Ruth. Kathy was probably disappointed that they got back together. 
Themes:
  • The limited number of years we have on earth and how we use our time: Miss Lucy tells Tommy he should be creative. She doesn't want him to become a donor. 
  • The idea of nostalgia: Kathy is remembering her last days at Hailsham. 
  • The limited number of years we have on earth and how we use our time: One of Kathy's donors completed. Then, Kathy sees Harry at the recovery center after his donation. 
]]> 2018-10-17 22:41:37 UTC https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/294124649 Chapter Ten cborn https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/294124674 Quotes:
  • "But this was one thing we'd been told over and over: that after Hailsham there'd be no more guardians, so we'd have to look after each other" (Ishiguro 197). They had left Hailsham and were staying at the cottages.
  • "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" (Ishiguro 209). Kathy told Ruth that she was not treating Tommy right. 
Characters: 
  •  Kathy: Kathy and 8 other students from Hailsham started living in cottages. 
  • Ruth: Ruth starts changing her relationship with Tommy to be more like the veteran couples. Ruth liked to spoil books for those staying at the cottages.
  • Keffers: The old grump that doesn't want anything to do with those staying at the cottages. He is the care taker of the cottages.
Conflict 
  •  Ruth and Kathy get into a fight. Kathy tells her that she and Tommy are copying the veteran couples and that is not what people do out there in normal life. It only happens on tv.
  • Kathy told Ruth that she was not treating Tommy right. 
  • Ruth liked to spoil books for those staying at the cottages. Kathy yelled at her for this.
Themes:
  • The world of children vs. the world of adults: The students from Hailsham staying at the cottages looked up to the veterans staying there. They started doing what they would do.
]]> 2018-10-17 22:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/294124674 Chapter Eleven cborn https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/295645172 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 matress, sipping our hot drinks, exchanging our deepest feelings about our new life like nothing had ever come between us" (Ishiguro 210). Ruth and Kathy still had their deep conversations at bed time.
  • "That was why, when Ruth said what she did about my not being slow making friends with certain veterans, I wasn't just cross. To me, it was a betrayal" (Ishiguro 211). Kathy felt like Ruth betrayed her her confidence.
  • "But I hadn't minded him coming into the boiler hut after me. I hadn't minded at all. I'd felt comforted, protected almost" (Ishiguro 228). Kathy was flipping through porn magazines in the boiler hut when Tommy walked in on her. 
Characters:
  • Kathy: Kathy was Ruth's carer and they talked about their times at the cottages. Kathy had been looking through porn magazines. Kathy had a lot of one nighters with the veterans.
  • Ruth: Kathy and Ruth had been quarreling during the day, but at night time they still had their deep conversations.
  • Tommy: Kathy had been looking through porn magazines and Tommy walked in on her. 
  • Steve: Steve left the cottages before the students from Hailsham arrived. When the veterans would see a porn magazine, they would joke and say it's Steve's.
Conflicts:
  •  Kathy and Ruth quarreled more at the cottages: "We were quarreling over all kinds of little things, but at the same time we were confiding in each other more than ever" (Ishiguro 210). 
Themes:
  • The idea of nostalgia: Kathy and Ruth thought back on their times at the cottages: "You were different. I remember. You were never embarrassed about your collection and you kept it. I wish now I'd done that too" (Ishiguro 219). Ruth told Kathy that she regrets not keeping her collection like Kathy did.
  • The idea of human cloning: "Kath, what are you looking for?" (Ishiguro 227). Kathy was looking through porn magazines, but she only focused on the faces of the models. Kathy might have been subconsciously looking for her clone.
]]> 2018-10-22 18:50:38 UTC https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/295645172 Chapter Twelve cborn https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/295645286 Quotes:
  • "They reckon this person's a possible. For me" (Ishiguro 230). Ruth was telling Kathy how Chrissie and Rodney had saw her possible in Norfolk.
  • "I suppose it was mainly us newcomers who talked about "dream futures" that winter, though a number of veterans did too" (Ishiguro 236). They had hopes and dreams for their future like any normal person. Ruth's dream future was to close a match to where the possible they had spotted.
Characters:
  • Kathy: Kathy did not believe that Rodney and Chrissie saw Ruth's possible. 
  • Ruth: Ruth's dream job is working in a really nice office. Rodney and Chrissie told her they spotted her possible in an office.
  • Chrissie: "The point about Chrissie - and this applied to a lot of the veterans - was that for all her slightly patronizing manner towards us when we'd first arrived, she was awestruck about our being from Hailsham" (Ishiguro 240). Chrissie was tall and beautiful, but she hunched over all the time. She was dating Rodney.
  • Rodney: He was dating Chrissie. He had a pony tail like a rock musician. He talked a lot about things like reincarnation. He was under Chrissie's influence. 
Conflicts:
  • Keffers did not want to fix the heater. He eventually gave those staying at the cottages money and a list on how to fix it.
  • The students from Hailsham staying at the cottages didn't know who their possibles were or what they were going to do in the future.
Themes:
  •  The idea of human cloning: "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" (Ishiguro 230). The students from Hailsham still don't know what they are or what is going to happen to them.


]]> 2018-10-22 18:50:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/295645286 Chapter Thirteen cborn https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/296207544 Quotes: 
  •  "Thinking about it now, it occurs to me the near-taboo at the Cottages surrounding people who'd left might well have stopped them talking about their friend even to each other, and it was only once we'd come away they'd felt able to indulge themselves in this way" (Ishiguro 249). Rodney and Chrissie didn't talk about their friend Martin who had left the Cottages.
  • "What they were saying was that some Hailsham students in the past, in special circumstances, had managed to get a deferral" (Ishiguro 254). Chrissie and Rodney were trying to find out if this was true. 
  • "We're not supposed to visit carers" (Ishiguro 250). Chrissie said this to them at lunch. 
Characters: 
  •  Kathy: Ruth and Kathy got in an argument. Ruth told her she was trying to be difficult and cause trouble. Kathy realized that Ruth was deceiving the veterans and that Tommy didn't see that. 
  • Ruth: Ruth was being mean to Tommy. She was acting like she knew what the veterans were talking about when she didn't: "She told the veterans what you've got to realise... is that even though Tommy was at Hailsham, he isn't like a real Hailsham student. He was left out of everything and people were always laughing at him" (Ishiguro 257-258). Ruth always had to get between Kathy and Tommy.
  • Tommy: Ruth really hurt Tommy's feelings. 
  • Chrissie: Chrissie wanted to learn more about the students at Hailsham and if they could get a deferral.
  • Rodney: Chrissie intimidated him. He drove them to Norfolk.
Conflicts:
  •  Ruth liked to pretend that she knew things that she really didn't know that the veterans discussed. It wasn't Tommy's nature to try to deceive people: "At last the penny seemed to drop, and Tommy shut up" (Ishiguro 253).
  • Ruth gets between Kathy and Tommy having a relationship.
Themes: 
  • The idea of human cloning: The students learn more about what is going to happen to them and how they don't want them to have contact with the carers.


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  •  "Her hair was darker than Ruth's - though it could have been dyed - and she had it tied back in a simple pony-tail the way Ruth usually did" (Ishiguro 264). They thought they had found Ruth's possible.
  • Tommy stayed with Kathy and it made Ruth mad: "I'll stay with Kath. If we're splitting, then I'll stay with Kath" (Ishiguro 278).
Characters: 
  • Kathy: Kathy didn't want to get caught going to visit a carer and she stayed behind while the others went.
  • Ruth: Ruth was disappointed that they didn't find her possible and she went off on how they were modeled from trash.
  • Tommy: Tommy stayed behind with Kathy when the others went to visit the carer.
  • Chrissie: Chrissie and Rodney thought they might be holding back on some big Hailsham secret.
  • Rodney: Chrissie and Rodney thought they might be holding back on some big Hailsham secret.
Conflicts:
  • Ruth and Chrissie were talking and they caught Kathy ease dropping on them: "At the same time, it was like I caught them doing something they shouldn't, and they moved apart self-consciously"(Ishiguro 262).
  • "Well, what do you know? Who's the upset one now?"(Ishiguro 277). Ruth was upset that the possible wasn't her clone model. They were on their way to visit a carer and Kathy knew they weren't supposed to.
Themes: 
  • Tommy told Ruth that she shouldn't be upset if she doesn't see her possible because it doesn't matter if she even finds her possible or not: "Even if you found your possible, the actual model they got you from. Even then, I don't see what difference it makes to anything" (Ishiguro 274).
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  •   "I was trying to find something. Something for you" (Ishiguro 280). Tommy wanted to find the tape that Kathy had lost at Hailsham.
  •  "...I feel a warmth welling up through me. Everything suddenly felt perfect: an hour set aside, stretching ahead of us, and there wasn't a better way to spend it" (Ishiguro 283). Kathy said this. She was remembering when her and Tommy had a fun time in Norfolk.
  • "...they revealed what you were like inside. She said they revealed your soul" (Ishiguro 291). Miss Emily was talking to Roy about why students didn't get tokens for their art when it was taken away to be put in the gallery. 
Characters:
  •  Kathy: "... why are you looking through old porn mags for your possibles?" (Ishiguro 300). Tommy realized that's why Kathy flipped through the magazines so quickly.
  • Tommy: "I get it too sometimes...when I really feel like doing it. I reckon everyone does, if they're honest. I don't think there's anything different about you, Kath" (Ishiguro 301). Tommy was trying to comfort Kathy.
  • Ruth: Ruth realized that she was mean to Kathy earlier about the possible situation. On the car ride back, she was nice and talked to Kathy a lot of the time.
Conflicts:
  •  Tommy told Kathy about his animal drawings, but did not tell Ruth.
Themes:
  •  The idea of nostalgia: "Even then, it was mainly a nostalgia thing, and today, if I happened to get the tape out and look at it, it brings back memories of that afternoon in Norfolk every bit as much as it does our Hailsham days" (Ishiguro 288). Kathy would look back on her trip to Norfolk.

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  • "I remembered him telling me, in Norfolk, that he worried, even as he created them, how they'd protect themselves or be able to reach and fetch things, and looking at them now, I could feel the same sort of concerns" (Ishiugro 311). Kathy remembered that Tommy told her that he had been drawing little animals.
  •  "The Norfolk thing was true... You know, about it being the lost corner of England" (Ishiguro 316). Kathy and Ruth began bonding and Ruth noticed that Kathy found her old tape. Kathy told her Tommy had the idea to look for it, this upset Ruth.
Characters:
  • Kathy: Ruth and Kathy began to get along again. When Ruth criticized Tommy's drawings, Kathy didn't defend him: "I could have challenged Ruth, told her she was twisting things, that even if I might have laughed, it wasn't in the way she was implying. I could even have gone up to Tommy and hugged him, right there in front of Ruth" (Ishiguro 322).
  • Ruth: Ruth and Kathy began bonding and Ruth found her old tape. "I had to really dig it out of Sweet Boy here. Not very keen at all on letting me in on it, were you, sweety gums? It was only when I kept pressing him to tell me what was behind all this art" (Ishiguro 320). Ruth made Tommy tell her about his Gallery theory. She was clearly angry and calling him Sweet Boy was not an endearment.
  • Tommy: Tommy's feelings were hurt when Ruth critiqued his animals and Kathy didn't defend him.
Conflicts:
  • Ruth was upset that Kathy and Tommy didn't tell her that they found the tape in Norfolk.
  • Ruth was offended that Tommy and Kathy didn't tell her about Tommy's Gallery Theory.
  • Ruth criticized Tommy's art work and Kathy didn't defend Tommy because she didn't want to hurt Ruth's feelings. Instead, she hurt Tommy's feelings.
Themes:
  • The idea of nostalgia: When Ruth found Kathy's tape, they remembered when their teacher taught about Norfolk, and how it was the lost corner of England.
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  • "It never ocucured to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that" (Ishiguro 325). Kathy is referring to the situation with Ruth and Tommy in the churchyard. Ruth offended Tommy about his animals and Kathy didn't defend him.
  • "It wasn't long after that I made my decision, and once I'd made it, I never wavered. I just got up one morning and told Keffers I wanted to start my training to become a carer" (Ishiguro 333). Kathy wanted to become a carer and she was ready to move on.
Characters:
  • Kathy: Kathy felt bad about the situation at the churchyard. Kathy and Tommy started growing apart: "Anyway, talking to Tommy wasn't so easy anymore" (Ishiguro 327). 
  • Ruth: Ruth and Kathy had a talk about what had happened the other day. Ruth said she apologized to Tommy about the animals. Ruth also told Kathy that Tommy really thinks the world of her, but would never want to date her because she has slept around: "But I know he doesn't see you like, you know, a proper girlfriend" (Ishiguro 331).
  • Keffers: Keffers gave Kathy her papers to become a carer.
Conflicts:
  • Kathy was irritated that Ruth didn't remember anything about Hailsham with that incident: "Ruth, don't give me that. There's no way you've forgotten. You know that route was out of bounds" (Ishiguro 333).
Themes:
  • The limited number of years we have on earth and how we use our time: Kathy was ready to move on and become a carer. She was tired of getting caught up in drama related to Hailsham, the cottages, and Ruth.
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  • "They might start off positively enough, but then comes all that time spent so close to the pain and the worry. And sooner or later a donor doesn't make it, even though, say, it's only the second donation and no one anticipated complications" (Ishiguro 337). Kathy was explaining why a lot of carers struggle.
  • "Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like it" (Ishiguro 339). Kathy began to enjoy the quiet.
Characters:
  • Kathy: Kathy decided to become a carer and leave Hailsham and the Cottages behind: "Then there's the solitude. You grow up surrounding by crowds of people, that's all you've ever known, and suddenly you are a carer" (Ishiguro 337). Kathy truly cares for her donors: "I try not to make a nuisance of myself, but I've figured out how to get my voice heard when I have to" (Ishiguro 338).
  • Ruth: Ruth just completed her first donation and was not doing so well. Many of her carers left her because she was difficult. Ruth talked about going to visit a crashed boat that just happened to be close to where Tommy was being cared for.
  • Laura: Laura was a carer. When Kathy ran into Laura, she seemed depressed. They reminisced for a little bit. Laura and Kathy talked about how Hailsham had closed down.
Conflicts:
  • Kathy was Ruth's carer. Ruth and Kathy were not getting along: "But once I offically became her carer, and I began to see her regularly, the sense of something not being right grew stronger and stronger" (Ishiguro 349). Ruth did not trust Kathy. 
Themes:
  • The idea of nostalgia: Ruth and Kathy talked about their times at Hailsham. When Hailsham closed, Kathy didn't know where here home would be anymore. Kathy and Laura also talked about Hailsham.
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  •  "I don't know what I'd been intending to do, but when Ruth said this, for some reason, without really thinking about it, I just stepped out of the car. Ruth stayed where she was, and that was why, when Tommy came up to us, his gaze fell on me and why it was me he hugged first" (Ishiguro 358). Ruth and Kathy went to go see the boat and picked Tommy up along the way.
  •  "Anyway, that's not the half of it, not even a small bit of it, actually. The main thing is, I kept you and Tommy apart"(Ishiguro 378). Ruth admitted to Tommy and Kathy that she stayed between them so she wouldn't be left out, even though she knew that they should be together.
Characters:
  • Kathy: She drove Tommy and Ruth to see the boat. When she picked up Tommy, she kept like she was closer with him. 
  • Ruth: Ruth admitted to Kathy and Tommy that she got in between them having a relationship. She found Madame's address and gave it to Tommy and Ruth. She told them that she wanted Kathy and Tommy to get a referral and for Kathy to become his donor. Ruth finished her third donation and the doctors didn't think that she would make it.
  • Tommy: Tommy was doing well after his donations. He had gained weight since Kathy and Ruth last saw him.
  • Chrissie:  After a few years, Chrissie and Rodney split. Chrissie completed and Rodney was able to get through the pain of her dying.
  • Rodney: Rodney was able to overcome the pain of Chrissie completing.
Conflicts:
  •  When Ruth and Kathy arrived to pick up Tommy, Ruth told Kathy to stay in the car. Kathy got out of the car and gave Tommy a hug. 
  •  Ruth implied that Kathy should have become a donor when her and Tommy did: "I was pretty much ready when I became a donor. It felt right. After all, it's what we're supposed to be doing, isn't it?" (Ishiguro 370).
Themes:
  •  The idea of nostalgia- Ruth brought back the times when Kathy said she was having urges to  have sex with anybody and Ruth told her that she was the only one that had those urges. Then, in the car ride, Ruth admitted to Kathy that she had urges too and that she slept with three guys other than Tommy at the cottages.
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  •  "I saw Madame yesterday, Tommy. I never spoke to her or anything. But I saw her" (Ishiguro 295). Kathy went to see if the address that Ruth gave her was actually Madame's. It turned out that Madame did live there and looked the exact same as before.
  •  "Maybe we'll take more. Fifteen, twenty even. Yeah, we'll go and see her. What can she do to us? We'll go and talk to her" (Ishiguro). Kathy and Tommy brought up their theory about the Gallery. They decided they wanted to go and see her and to ask if they could get a referral. They wanted to go through Tommy's drawings and find his best ones.
Characters:
  •  Kathy: Kathy became Tommy's carer about a year after their trip. She would read to Tommy and talk with him. They began having sex because Kathy thought that Madame might ask if they had. Kathy went to see if Madame lived in the house of the address that Ruth gave her. Kathy did see Madame and told Tommy that they should go and see her.
  • Tommy: Tommy had just had his third donation. He was getting stronger quickly. He would spend his time listening to Kathy read and drawing animals. Tommy was almost strong enough for his fourth donation.
Conflicts:
  •  Tommy asked Kathy to look at three different frogs that he had drawn. She was relieved that she and Tommy could talk about their times at the cottages now, but something still wasn't right. She believed his drawings weren't fresh anymore and that they seemed just like what he had done at the cottages. 
  • Tommy told Kathy that it might be dangerous going to see Madam since hey aren't supposed to.
Themes:
  • The limited number of years we have on earth and how we use our time - Kathy and Tommy began having serious conversations. They didn't want to wait any longer. Now that they were together, they began having sex and planning their trip to go see Madame.
  • The idea of nostalgia - When Kathy saw Tommy's drawings, it reminded her of their times at the cottages. The drawings looked like Tommy work back when they were staying at the cottages.
]]> 2018-10-28 17:16:24 UTC https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/297775794 Chapter Twenty One cborn https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/297775828 Quotes:
  •  ""Miss Emily," Tommy said, quite softly.
        "You speak to them," Madame      said, as though washing her hands of everything""(Ishiguro 414). Tommy and Kathy went to speak to Madame. While they were there, Madame told somebody to come talk to them. Miss Emily appears. 
  •  "My Gallery. You must mean my collection. All those paintings, poems, all those things of yours I gathered over the years" (Ishiguro 412). Madame was fascinated to here what the students thought of her collection. She kept asking out loud if she had "gone too far."
Characters:
  • Kathy: Kathy and Tommy go to see Madame. They follow her through town and then arrive at her house. Kathy and Tommy told Madame their thoughts about the Gallery. 
  • Tommy: Tommy was super anxious to talk to Madame. He was very nervous and blurt out his ideas on the Gallery.
  •  Madame: Madame was fascinated that the students had such crazy ideas about her Gallery.
  • Miss Emily: At the end of the chapter, Miss Emily comes into the room in a wheel chair.
Conflicts:
  •  On their trip, everything kept getting delayed. Tommy had to redo three to four tests. Because he had to do more tests, he missed lunch, so they had to stop and get something to eat. On the car ride, he began to get carsick and they had to stop for a little. They arrived much later than expected to Madames.
  • When they saw a painting of Hailsham, Tommy recognized that the picture was taken behind the pond. Kathy did not notice right away and Tommy was upset that she didn't remember.
Themes:
  • The idea of nostalgia - When Tommy and Kathy were following Madame through town, it reminded them of when they followed Ruth's possible through Norfolk. 
  • The idea of nostalgia- While at Madame's house, they see a water color painting of Hailsham. This brings back memories of what Hailsham looked like.
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  •  "We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all" (Ishiguro 423). Miss Emily told Kathy and Tommy this. They wanted to know why they had the Gallery and the gallery was to prove that the students had souls. 
  • "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" (Ishiguro 429). Miss Emily told this to Kathy and Tommy to explain why Hailsham had been shut down. Technology had become so advanced that scientists were able to created humans with any desired characteristics and this threatened people. 
Characters:
  •  Kathy: Kathy and Tommy were upset about referrals not being true. They asked why there was a gallery and why Hailsham closed. 
  • Tommy: On the car ride home, Tommy asked to step out of the car. He went into the darkness in the middle of the road and started screaming. After he calmed down and got back in the car, he threw his art work out of the window.
  • Madame: Her name is actually Marie-Claude. Kathy asked why she was scared of the students. Miss Emily told her Madame gave everything to the students and worked hard for the students. She told them that all of the guardians were afraid of the students. 
  • Miss Emily: Miss Emily explained why Hailsham shut down and she told the students why Miss Lucy left. Miss Emily explained why she cried when she saw Kathy dancing to "Never Let Me Go" : I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientfic, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a hash, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go" (Ishiguro 442).
  • Miss Lucy: Miss Lucy left because in order to keep the students emotions from being shattered, they shouldn't know what is going to happen to them.
Conflicts:
  •  Tommy and Kathy can not get a referral. Referrals were just a made up idea. Tommy had a tantrum when he found this out.
Themes:
  •  What does it mean to be human?- Tommy was always seen as the most normal student because he showed emotion and acted his age (throwing tantrums). Kathy told him that she thinks that deep down Tommy knew what was happening: "We couldn't even understand how you could ever get like that. And I was just having this idea, just a thought really. I was thinking maybe the reason you used to get like that was because at some level you always knew" (Ishiguro 448).
]]> 2018-10-28 17:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/297775923 Chapter Twenty Three cborn https://padlet.com/cborn/oanz18vx3cyf/wish/297775967 Quotes:
  •  Tommy wasn’t acting the same around Kathy: “If for instance, the two of us were reminiscing about old Hailsham people, he’d sooner or later move the conversation round to one of his current donor friends who’d maybe said or done something similar to what we were recalling”(Ishiguro 450). 
  • When Kathy arrived at Tommy’s centre, he ignored her in a way: “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” (Ishiguro 450). 
Characters:
  •  Kathy: Kathy was offended that Tommy didn’t want to talk. Then, she was offended when Tommy didn’t want her to be her carer. 
  • Tommy: Tommy didn’t want Kathy to see him when he was having his fourth donation: “Kath, I don’t want you to take this the wrong way. But I’ve been thinking it over a lot. Kath, I think I ought to get a different carer” (Ishiguro 456).
Conflicts:
  •  Tommy offended Kathy by saying she didn’t understand since she wasn’t a donor: “I’d feel a similar little prickle of resentment each time he told me I didn’t understand something or other because I wasn’t yet a donor” (Ishiguro 452).
Themes:
  •  The idea of nostalgia- “You know, Kath, when I used to play football back at Hailsham. I had this secret thing I did. When I scored a goal, I’d turn round like this... and I’d run back to my mates” (Ishiguro 464).
  • The idea of nostalgia- “I lost Ruth, then I lost Tommy, but I won’t lose my memories of them” (Ishiguro 465).


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