Never Let Me Go: 16

SYMBOL

"I thought about Hailsham closing, and how it was like someone coming along with a pair of shears and snipping the balloon strings just where they entwined about the man's fist." p.213

This part made me pretty sad. After reading that Hailsham closed, I knew that was a part of Kathy that was dying as well. In this selection, the balloons symbolized all of the students and guardians and Hailsham. Now, someone has come by and shut them all down. The ties have been cut and are all going their own ways. This relates not only to the closing, but also to where Kathy is at in her life right now. Being a carer, she is almost always alone. She has none of her old friends with her and will only occasionally bump into them at odd places. Even then they don't really connect like they used to. So when Kathy left the cottage, she was, in a way, that person with the pair of shears. She cut herself away from everyone and everything that was Hailsham.