"'Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?'"
(pg. 254)
The rhetorical question from the quote is significant in the way it puts emphasis on what Madame was saying. Madame, through this quote, is conveyed as sympathetic for what Kathy, Tommy, and all the other students had to go through. In this scene, Miss Emily and Madame explain to the children the horrors of their society. Hailsham was a beacon of hope for changing the way their society worked. Before schools like Hailsham, students were created in warehouse-type factories and treated horribly. Their tone is of sincere remorse and regret that they couldn't accomplish this change as they later explained the reality of how their world works. However, Miss Emily and Madame had tried hard to change peoples' opinions of students like Tommy and Kathy through their art as a key to conveying the human qualities of the students. As a reader, I have to feel sorry Tommy and Kathy. Their perceived reality about the world and the defferals were nothing but fantasies. All hope they had in a good world that could help them just one time vanished with their newfound knowlege.
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