Adam Boisvert answers “Can anyone explain me why didn't they all...”

Jamila Huseynova asked this question about Never Let Me Go:

Can anyone explain me why didn't they all run away from that place? Because I could not figure out that part.

Adam Boisvert This is just a theory, but remember how scared all the Hailsham children were of the woods? How it gave each and every one of them nightmares, to the …moreThis is just a theory, but remember how scared all the Hailsham children were of the woods? How it gave each and every one of them nightmares, to the point where they would force each other to look at it as a form of punishment.

Maybe this was a result of some sort of conditioning that all the children received, to keep them from escaping when they were young, and to keep them part of the program as they got older. There are other signs, like how they each forgot important details that the others considered to be important; it could just be the fallibility of human memory, or it could be something more significant.(less)

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