I really liked the idea that we were talking about in class of what makes an individual and how art somehow makes up who you are. Also the idea of "they vs. us." it's something that i really want to look into more and potentially write about. If you guys have any quotes that you've found let me know.. :)
"'But you can't blame us,' I said. 'We'd been taught to think about each other, but never about the guardians. The idea the guardians had differences between them, that never occurred to us.' 'But we were old enough,' Tommy said. 'By that age it should have occurred to us.'"
Do you think that Tommy is more individual than the others since he is not creative? Normally we'd think about creativity making somebody more individual but in Hailsham it seems like it would make him more individual and have more of an identity by not sharing the same interest in being creative that the others do.
I feel like all the kids are trying to make their art be really creative and special so that Madame takes it to make them stand out and be an individual, but Tommy is the only one who succeeds in being an individual because he isn't creative and struggles to fit in with the rest of Hailsham.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the only thing that the kids really have is their collections to make themselves stand out from each other, but Ruth throws hers away and I found this to be interesting because their entire lives they've been trying to stand out to Madame though their art.
I like what Lindsey said about the collections making them stand out from each other at Hailsham. But does someone being creative or not creative also make them stand out at Hailsham? Should someone want to stand out at Hailsham is the real question. Because if Tommy dose/did not gain the creativity Miss Lucy was talking about, what will happen to him that is different from what will happen to Ruth or Kathy?
ReplyDeleteAnother thing I was thinking about was that the collections make them stand out from each other as an individual at Hailsham, but the fact that Tommy is not creative, makes him stand out even more. And in the real world, he is the one that fits in with "normal" people, not Ruth or Kathy. I use normal loosely.