Hi! I am also new here and I was never happier than when I saw this Forum. Reading a book without the possibility of discussing it with someone is a very lonely experience.
I have just finished reading it so my thoughts are not well organised yet but what I've read from your opinions here helped me a lot.
As for the citizenship of our characters, I think that they live in all those places like recovery centres or cottages because they are being kept in isolation from the whole world outside. It may also answer why they don't go through that rebelious phase as seeing no example of such behaviour.
Besides analysing the behaviour of doctors, nurses, Madame at the begining one can easily assume that they are not treated exactly as complete human beings.The fact that the hospital staff behaves different at the fourth donation only proves that they treat them as clones and the source of spare parts and not people. My attention was also drawn to the conditions of Halisham, Cottages or some centres. Even though the descriptions were sometimes quite scarce one can sens the gloomy pictures; there are no luxuries, not to mention dilapidated shelters with no proper heating and leaking roofs.But again, Kath is not that concerned about it as she has no real perspective and comparison with the real world.Although at the end they hear they were given better chance to live than the ones before and after them, is it really the truth? Why did they give the awareness and sensitivity to someone who is anyway doomed? Does it make it easier for them to accept their destiny?
If what I wrote is a mess, please forgive me as all my thoughts are yet quite mixed.
