Tommy's screams and the Hailsham ethos of education despite donations related to Holloway's scream - related to Munch's?
Ishiguro on basic theme of the book.
The non-existence of considerations of escape.
Saramago's allegories and this allegory.
Criticism of the focus on the "being creative" from a novelist.
True love - It isn't in twos, it doesn't save, it does redeem. Do Madame and Ms. Emily love the students?
The maturity of the characters - they don't require each other to be ideal - they accept.
The focus (in Kathy's monologs but also applies as unrealized-larger-analysis) on the unspoken rules/agreements in relationships and how they structure conversation and interaction.
The 4th donation's extra terrors - even a simple death is precluded.
The connection to capitalist labor processes and exploitation in general.
Was Ms. Lucy right? Or Ms. Emily? This matters a lot for Tommy - should it?
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thanks for the comments, we are always changing with experiences so that would be an element in it. For some reason, I always think people already know things that I haven't put in but thought, like I was writing it with the thought of how people are constantly changing and growing in the back of my mind i shouldn't assume that, but somehow I always do.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking that, you are you, even though the "you" you are today is not the same as the "you" you were yesterday, they are both "you". Even if we're different we're still us. The us from tommorow will still be us, not the same as the us from yesterday, but it will be us nevertheless. And thinking about it in terms of that. It reminds me if the song "put your record on", that's how I read the song anyways, when it says "the more we seem to change/the more we stay the same"
The essence is interesting too, because what is an essence? your personality? how would that account for how easily that can be changed if this essence is the unchanging. I don't why people like fixiting on things like this but I guess it gives us interesting things to talk about.