Blog #9

"The world didn't want to be reminded how the donation programme really worked. They did not think about you students, or about the conditions you were brought up in. In other words, my dears, they wanted you back in the shadows".
The audience of the Kathy in the ugly world that was horrible enough to create such an institution. The world that would assume that these donors have no souls. The world that would look to the people like them as suppliers for the medical experiments.
The phrase "I don't know how it is where you were, but..." referring to people, who were even though uncomfortable about an existence of the donors, but still preferred to keep donors in a shadows due to the "overwhelming concern that their own children, spouses, parents, friends, did not die from cancer, motor neuron disease, and heart disease." People, who selfish enough not to care of what happening to other people, as long as their significant others can be safe and healthy.
This reading, which is basically ripped my heart in peaces by the way, is a perfect allusion to the real world, about developed and advanced countries taking away resources from developing countries. If America in "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson was giving people from the rest of the world "something to dream about", Madame and Miss Emily were giving these poor kids the same thing - a false hope. The difference is that these are real people with hopes, souls, and other intangible values.
This phrase can also tell as that these "students" had (have) something that the rest of the world doesn't have, the knowledge that they are different than everyone else, their purpose, their Hailsham which is not just a place with fences and guardians, but a place that made them all a family. "I'll have Hailsham with me, safely in my head, and that'll be something no one can take away. Despite the fact that they were losing each other, they learned to treasure intangible things.
Kathy as a narrator is aware of the fact that the rest of the world is different from the one she grew up in. By this phrase she separates her world with the rest. I assume, that when most of us read this book, we emphasize with the "students" - we become us, and the rest of the world, the world that wishes to have donors in shadow becomes them, - as we read the book. But roles changing as we close this book and begin analyzing it and comparing it with the present world.
The question is, even though we realize the ugliness of all of these do we begin to think that this all should be changed or eliminated? Do we want to stand on the way of the technological progress, which can be possibly supplied with the material of such nature?