Hailsham is a boarding school where children go. Despite not knowing right away, their only purpose in life is to donate organs.
Ruth is jealous and power-hungry and will do anything to stay in control of everyone. She is also very self-serving and Kathy does not stand up to her too much.
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"We were surrounded by silence and when we started more towards the boat, you could hear the squelch under our shoes," (Ishiguro 224)
Kathy has taken Ruth and Tommy to visit the run-down boat. To me, it symbolized the ending of a journey
