Hope
- Created by: mimidollins
- Created on: 05-03-21 17:31
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- Hope
- To hope: To want, look forward to, or expect something in the future
- Dreams: Hopeful imaginings for the future, often in an indulgent sense
- What hopes and dreams do students have for themselves?
- Kathy
- To be with Tommy
- Fate (and Ruth) keeps them apart
- "You and Tommy, you've got to try and get a deferral. If it's you two, there's got to be a chance. A real chance"
- Hopeful until the end
- Fate (and Ruth) keeps them apart
- Daydreams about finding her childhood
- More realistic than T and R
- Due to self-sufficiency and long experience as carer which makes her sceptical of avoiding fate so many others have suffered
- Less attached to hope of deferral, so les disturbed by losing false hope than T
- To be with Tommy
- Tommy
- Artwork leads to deferrals
- Disillusioned when he finds out deferrals don't exist
- Artwork leads to deferrals
- Ruth
- Working in office
- Finding her possible
- Angry reaction emphasises her disappointment as her dream has shattered
- T describes R as a dreamer who held the most hope for the future out of the trio
- For Kathy and Tommy's future
- "it would have made her feel bad; made her see the damage she'd once done to us couldn't be repaired as easily as she'd hoped"
- Chrissie
- Of being a Hailsham student
- Try to get insider info and prestige
- H students give others hope that there is a better life
- Of being a Hailsham student
- Work in different jobs and travel world
- "None of you will go to America, none of you will be film stars. And none of you will be working in supermarkets"
- Kathy
- Deferrals
- Miss E doesn't stop rumour as it was too hard to take away that hope
- Madame sees as a harmless dream as rare students will take it that far
- M doesn't say whether she finds it unfair that students believe in possibility of extending their life for so long
- Hailsham
- Exists in order to evade prospect of the student's lives being dominated by thoughts of death
- Contrasts throughout bw QOL of students who went to H vs not, and the bright world including H vs cheerless world after
- Despite conspiracy of silence, students absorb hints about future
- How does this humanise them?
- We all use dreams to escape
- Feel their increasingly desperate hopes as understandable and futile (sad for us and them)
- However, we don't cling to it as much
- We all use dreams to escape
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