"And somthing told me we were coming to what was, for Chrissie and Rodney, the central purpose of this whole expedition." - Never Let Me Go, page 153.
The quote above is a great example of the literary term called motivation. Chrissie and Rodney had invited the three Hailsham friends (Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy) to come to Norfolk with them because they claimed to have found Ruth's possible (the person Ruth was modeled after when she was created). Once I heard Chrissie say she wanted to talk to the group about something I figured that maybe they had never seen Ruth's possible at all. Maybe it was all just a scam to get them away so they could talk to the group, personally, and away from everyone else. My suspicions were proved to be true when they later went to find the possible and it turned out that the woman didn't look to be Ruth's possible at all. Ruth got pretty angry about it, as expected, but it just showed how desperate Chrissie and Rodney were to get a deferral. It showed how couples would probably do anything to prevent the donations process even if it was for a couple of years. I bet some people just pretend to be in love so they could push their donations back for awhile.
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