Circles & Art

"The craze was for several people to sit on the grass around a single Walkman, passing the headset around. Okay, it sounds a stupid way to listen to music, but it created a really good feeling. You listened for maybe twenty seconds, took off the headset, passed it on. After a while, provided you kept the same tape going over and over, it was surprising how close it was to having heard all of it yourself." (103)

This passage really got me thinking about Asha's idea of circles and view points. Each of this students are getting to hear a different part of the song at first, but after a while they get to hear the part of the song that someone else had started out with. In other words, their all getting to see a different part of one song. This also got me thinking about the idea of art and how important the role it plays in their lives is. When they buy something at the exchanges, its almost as though they're buying a piece of somebody, and when the art has to do with Hailsham itself--Patricias calendar--its like they're looking in at somebody else's point of view.