Blog entry #6 Never Let Me Go

"This might all sound daft, but you have to remember that to us, at that stage in our lives, any place beyond Hailsham was like a fantasy land.." Page 66

The setting seems to be very important in shaping the minds of the children at Hailsham.  They are so accustomed to Hailsham that anywhere outside is "fantasy land."  This fact causes much mystique about the outside world.  The Children, for sometime, speculate about the town Norfolk, suggesting that it could be one huge center for the lost items of England.  They also are so intrigued about one character, Madame.  Madame comes in from the outside world to take their priced works.  The children all wonder what business she has with taking  their work.  What purpose does their work serve in the outside world, they wonder?  Hailsham also confines the students to only knowing a few type of characters.  They are never really able to experience the variety of positive and negative personalities that exist in the world.  They are socially limited in the fact that the mostly only know guardians and other students at Hailsham.