NLMG Key Quotes Flashcards
1
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Moment 1
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- ‘My name is Kathy H.’
- Repetition of ‘you’ (simple language, nothing else to say)
- Also: (direct address, Kathy believes we know what’s going on)
- ‘Hailsham’ - repetition of Hailsham shows it’s important and ‘sham’ means lie, fake, deceit
2
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Madame’s Visit p.35-36
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- ‘usual grey suit’
- ‘briefcase held tightly’
- ‘stiff halt’
- ‘shudder she seemed to be suppressing’
- ‘real dread’
- ‘Madame was afraid of us’ (use of italics)
- Triplet of questions and repetition of ‘why’ emphasises confusion (Laura speaking)
- End of chapter: ‘something troubling and strange’
3
Q
The Judy Bridgewater Song p.70-71
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- ‘holding an imaginary baby to my breast’ (dreams)
- ‘crying’ (Madame was crying because she knows the clones can’t have babies and the little girl will only live 20 years)
4
Q
Miss Lucy Talks to the Students p.79-80
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- ‘more drops coming off the gutter and landing on her shoulder, but she didn’t seem to notice’ (pathetic fallacy)
- Repetition of ‘told’
- Use of definitive and repetition of ‘none of you’
- ‘That’s what each of you was created to do.’ (Short sentence, ‘to donate vital organs’)
5
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Chapter 13, Deferrals p.152-153
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- ‘more and more’ (repetition emphasises obsession with deferrals)
- ‘their gazes settled back on Ruth’ (Ruth’s the leader)
- ‘sighed’ and ‘shrug’ (Ruth’s actions are theatrical and she performs because she’s a clone and doesn’t have her own personality)
- ‘he isn’t like a real Hailsham student’ (makes us question what a ‘real’ HS is)
6
Q
Chapter 14, Ruth’s Outburst p.164-165
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- We’re modelled from trash
- ‘Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps’
- ‘Look down the toilet, that’s where you’ll find where we all came from.’
7
Q
Tommy wondering about his art p.173-4
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- Repetition of ‘love’ (clones can still love)
- Theme of love
- ‘good’ (Tommy’s basic adjective)
- Repetition of ‘slowly’ shows that their minds are so slow and so is their physical body
8
Q
Tommy’s drawings p.184-5
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- ‘densely detailed’
- ‘weaving’, ‘miniature’ and ‘obsessive’ (trio of adjectives)
- Use of listing and mechanical imagery
- ‘fantastical creatures’ (represents the clones, they’re not humans but ‘creatures’)
9
Q
The abandoned boat p.220-1
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- Tone is melancholy
- Semantic field of death ‘closed’, ‘shut down’, ‘completed’, ‘vapour trail’
- ‘I could see rubbish floating by under my window’
- Use of ‘I’ instead of ‘we’ (After surgery/donations clones seem to have a greater sense of self and the impending mortality of their lives)
10
Q
The Morningdale Scandal p.258-9
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- Repetition of ‘we’ whilst Miss Emily’s speaking reemphasises us vs them
- Repetition of calling the clones ‘they’
11
Q
Madame’s Recollections p.266-7
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- ‘his rages’ (Tommy and clones shouldn’t have rages, that’s human behaviour)
- ‘hit the side of my face’ (If clones are all the same, they should get along)
- Ruth calls Tommy a ‘Mad animal’
12
Q
The End p.280-2
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- Repetition of ‘I’ (Kathy’s no longer part of the collective, she’s an individual)
- ‘a hotel, a school, a ruin’ - pessimistic triplet of what Hailsham could be like now
- ‘to drive off to wherever I was supposed to be’ (A moment of choice - K chooses the status quo)
