Memory
- Created by: mimidollins
- Created on: 03-03-21 11:23
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- Memory
- Nostalgia
- A sentimental desire to return to or look back on a previous part of your life, often including feelings of happiness about the time or place
- Why is Kathy nostalgic?
- Solitary lifestyle as a carer
- Lost everything other than memories of her past
- R and T have completed
- "I lost Ruth, then I lost Tommy, but I won't lose my memories of them"
- Memories are all that connects her to R and T after their death and closure of Hailsham
- "it was like someone coming along with a pair of shears and snipping the balloon strings"
- H lost to her (doesn't know where to find it and is closed)
- "Driving around the country now, I still see things that remind me of Hailsham"
- Once closed, there's nothing physical to connect K's present with her past, so memories of people in past gain importance
- Veterans and Keffers also exited her life
- Important she feels she can control the possession of some parts of herself as she is going to lose her organs through donation
- No mention of funerals for clones
- R and T have completed
- Don't have many personal possessions to frame her individuality on
- No mention of photographs, she has tapes, some lamps, R doesn't seem to have anything personal, T has sketchbooks
- Why/how aren't other characters as nostalgic?
- H is "special" (made a point of throughout), and isn't the memories of a brutal centre many donors are left with
- "his face beneath the blotches went into a completely new kind of grimace. And I realise how desperately he didn't want to be reminded"
- Sets tone in 1st chapter that memories are important in the novel
- "his face beneath the blotches went into a completely new kind of grimace. And I realise how desperately he didn't want to be reminded"
- R throws collection out and fails to remember H
- Thought moving on from H was mature
- H is "special" (made a point of throughout), and isn't the memories of a brutal centre many donors are left with
- Effect of memory on R and K's relationship
- Shared experience at H helped them overcome their differences
- K treats R generously as her memories of her (although manipulative) are the only remnants of what is now absent
- How do authorities try to limit the nostalgia felt by clones and why?
- Limit their chance to develop a sense of identity
- Prevents clones from resisting or complaining
- However, still develop memories
- To convince normals of their lack of humanity
- What separates humans and animals is our ability to remember past and think of future
- Prevents clones from resisting or complaining
- Limit their chance to develop a sense of identity
- Nostalgia
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