"... She always chooses her own kind: people from Hailsham, or one of the other privileged estates. No wonder she has a great record. I've heard it said enough, so I'm sure you've heard it plenty more, and maybe there's something in it."
(pg. 4)
As the story opens, I immediately noticed that the book is in the first person point of view. The narrator is one of the characters named Kathy H. She never reveals her last name nor hints at what it is. She simply says that she is Kathy H. I don't know if this has any significance yet, but of all the characters that she introduced so far, they all state their last name with just a single letter. Also, I noticed in the quote that Kathy references a "privileged" estate called Hailsham. Kathy says that she is a Hailsham student and always chooses her donors from there. I'm not exactly sure what Hailsham is but the book so far frequently gives the impression of it being regarded by others as a very nice or even coveted place. Also, Kathy, the narrator, directly addresses the reader in the quote as though she is telling the story to another character, me, the reader. This is a different approach to describing a story than I'm used to but seems to make me feel more involved and hooked into the story.One of the first questions I have though is what the narrator means by when she states that she is a "carer." I mean it obviously points out that she takes care of people, or donors as is already described, but what exactly she does or why she does it is what I am confused about. I'm wondering if a carer draws any societal parallels or follows along the same lines with the last book we read, "Brave New World."
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