"Tommy thought it possible the guardians had, throughout all our years at Hailsham, timed very carefully and deliberately everything they told us, so that we were always just too young to understand properly the latest piece of information. But of course we'd take it in at some level, so that before long all this stuff was there in our heads without us ever having examined it properly" (Never Let Me Go, 82).
This is something that I think is probably prevalent in the real world. Sometimes I think about how this is probably a major reason everyone in the world has a unique set of morals.
It's kind of like hypnopaedia, I suppose, but it's not quite as structured. If Tommy's right, though (which I think he very well could be), then people in the world are intentionally putting things in humans' minds without the person having any say in it. That's dehumanizing, and I wonder sometimes whether or not it's happening to us in real life unintentionally. Anyhow.
I learned a lot about the outside world again in chapter seven from (surprise, surprise) Miss Lucy. She's kind of like the Hagrid of Hailsham because she keeps giving the students clues that none of the other teachers would. Can't . . . embed . . . this video. . . .
From what I've gathered, first, the students will become carers (82), and then after that, they start to donate vital organs (81). That would explain why it's so horrible for them to smoke. Like in Brave New World, it seems like predestination is going to be a theme. Predestination didn't look so great in that book, and it's probably not going to look so great in this one, either.
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