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“Chrissie and Rodney, they’re The author's symbol of deferrals shows the society's belief that

really obsessed with this idea. love shows someone's humanity. Because deferrals provides
time to clones and delay their "mission" of donating their organs,
You know, the one about people
deferrals provide clones with an experience nearer to that which
having their donations deferred if
normal humans experience. This means deferrals are provided
they’re really in love. only to people with what society believes is "human", and
deferrals symbolize society's recognition of a couple's humanity,
and providing them the benefits of humanity. This is because
p.271 society believes that love is the closest clones can get to
humanity.

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The first impression was like one The author's repetitive mention of impressionistic art, both at the
you’d get if you took the back off Portway Studios, as well as Tommy's drawings, show Tommy's
creative capability and humanity, or at least Tommy's adherence
a radio set: tiny canals, weaving
to society's belief of what creative capability and humanity is .
tendons, miniature screws and
This is because Portway Studios is a gallery of "model" art, and
wheels were all drawn with this means Tommy's work follows the "model", and in society's
obsessive precision, and only belief, Tommy's work shows a high creative capability. Since
when you held the page away creative capability is used to determine deferrals, which is
could you see it was some kind of decided by one's humanity, this means that creative capability, in
armadillo, say, or a bird. society's opinion, shows humanity.

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Then there’s the solitude. You The author here talks about the change between a normal, social
grow up surrounded by crowds of life, to one of solitude and emptiness.
people, that’s all you’ve ever
known, and suddenly you’re a
carer. You spend hour after hour,
on your own, driving across the
country, centre to centre, hospital
to hospital, sleeping in overnights,
no one to talk to about your
worries, no one to have a laugh
with.

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The picture was probably taken in The author uses this picture as a symbol for what people strived
the late fifties or early sixties, and for. In the drive to preserve this happiness, the society neglects
the happiness of others, or the clones.
shows a big rectangular swimming
pool with all these happy people—
children, parents—splashing about
having a great time.
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the place where you drive in when
you first arrive at the centre
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each time I see it, I can’t help
picturing a swimmer taking a dive
off the top only to crash into the
cement.
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There was a lot of sky reflected in The author uses the play metaphor to emphasize the
the windscreen, so I couldn’t make metaphorical distance and tension now between Ruth and
Tommy and Kathy.
her out very well. But I got the
impression Ruth had on a serious,
almost frozen look, like Tommy
and I were people in a play she
was watching.

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