"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 creted to do. You're not like the actors you watch on your videos, you're not even like me. You were brought into this world for a purpose, and your futures, all of them, have been decided." (pg. 81)
Wow. Tell it like it is, Miss Lucy. For the students at Hailstorm, I would imagine Miss Lucy's outburst was a slap in the face. Kathy does, in the following pages, talk about how she thinks the students already knew, but didn't want to truly face the facts. It must have been depressing knowing that dreams of future families and careers were useless. The whole idea of being made for the sole purpose of saving someone else reminds me of My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. In the book, Anna was born to her parents for the sole purpose of donating bone marrow to her sister with Leukemia, Kate. Was Anna truly loved for the person she was, or for what she could do for Kate? I think that despite the reason she was created for, she was loved greatly as her own person. I would imagine that each person at Hailsham would also have been loved for who they were, but I must wonder- who were their parents, and why aren't those parents present in the lives of the students? Miss Lucy's outburst confirmed some suspicions that were arising, but left me with more questions as well.
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