Never Let Me Go: Characters
This teacher is forced to leave Hailsham for her views about the "system" and the way the students are treated.
Miss Lucy
This is the place that Tommy and Kathy have a private chat about Miss Lucy and creativity. It is an example of the liminal places the students have to exist in.
The Pond
What word is used to describe a donor who has expired?
Completion/completed
What is going to happen to David after the conclusion of "Super Toys Last All Summer Long"?
He will be returned to the factory. Monica Swinton thinks he is malfunctioning
Reword this sentence so that it is more euphemistic:
"I need to pee!"
Excuse me, but may I go to the bathroom?
This student makes the calendar which Kathy H purchases at an Exchange and angers Tommy with.
Patricia C.
Name one difference between the Sales and the Exchanges
The Sales are a more rowdy affair
Explain the significance of Norfolk to the students
They make a joke that Norfolk is the lost corner of England. They are the lost property!
What is the social contract that features in "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"?
The citizens accept that the young girl must suffer in order to ensure their own prosperity.
"I'm not sure if it was like this where you went to school, but at Hailsham we had the Sales, I think they might have been more special for us, but I might be exaggerating." What grammatical technique is Kathy exhibiting here
Low modality or Hedging
Which student of Hailsham is forced to stare at the haunted woods as punishment for her transgressions?
Marge K
Gardeners
At first, Miss Lucy comforts Tommy by telling him that creativity is not important. Before leaving Hailsham, she contradicts this. What does she tell Tommy that creativity and artwork could be?
Evidence
What is a set of shared myths and social constructs—such as laws, money, or human rights—that exist only in the collective imagination of a large group of people. Despite being having no physical objectivity, these orders govern human behavior and allow thousands of strangers to cooperate effectively toward common goals.
An Imagined Order
Make a sentence in the third conditional using these three words
Mr. Short/teacher/happy
If Mr. Short had been my teacher in J2, I would have not been very happy.
This is the name of the horse Ruth "allows" Kathy to ride first.
Bramble
Why does the library at Hailsham not include any of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels?
Holmes smokes a pipe.
Name FOUR possessions that are important to Kathy, Tommy or Ruth?
Tommy's Blue Polo/Soccer Jersey
Patricia C's Calendar
The Julie Bridgewater Tape
Ruth's pencil case
What are the three rhetorical techniques used by Shakespeare in "The Stranger's Case" to make the crowd/audience rethink their attitude towards immigrants?
Pathos - appeal to emotion
Ethos - appeal to integrity
Logos - appeal to logic/reason
Use the political passive to exonerate (clear) this politician of his crimes:
I stole public money to buy a nice car
Finances were redistributed for an investment in private transport
This is a name of a teacher that the students do not like very much. She is implicated in the plot to kidnap Miss Geraldine, discovered by the "Secret Guardians"
Miss Eileen
What is the phrase used by the delivery driver to describe the items he brings for The Sales?
A bumper crop
The student's joke about Second World War prisoners dying on an electric fence. Here, the students are dealing with the dark reality of their existence by making a joke out of it. What is the psychological coping method called?
Sublimation
What are the three reasons Yuval Harari gives for why black Africans were taken as slaves to the Americas?
1) Geography
2) Convenience
3) Genetics
Nominalize this sentence:
Mr. Tall killed Mr. Short with a baseball bat.
The Answer: "The killing of Mr. Short was carried out by Mr. Tall with a baseball bat." (Alternative: "The death of Mr. Short was effected by Mr. Tall via a baseball bat.")
HINT - change kill to killing/ending/completion