"'Your lives are set out for you. You'll become adults, then before you're old, before you're even middle-aged, you'll start to donate your vital organs. That's what each of you was created to do.'"
(pg. 81)
This quote is from yet another one of Kathy's anecdotes in the book. However, this quote is very significant and begins to explain what role the student's play in their society. It is a harsh reality that draws significant parallels and similar themes with the other book we read, "Brave New World." Both books describe immoral societies that designate social statuses that govern the world. One thing that I find quite shocking though is the silence of the students when they hear this. Kathy states how they don't understand it completely to a degree at the time, but it is so clear that their futures are not good. They were created to be killed, but the students seem to dodge around this point and even come to accept it. As Kathy now is much older telling the story as a carer, she must know that she, too, will come to this fate. However, no one seems to fight it or try to run away from this pending doom. No characters seem to feel that escaping this fate is a possibility or even a thought that they have as children and apparently, in Kathy's case, as adults as well.
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