Josie
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It is implied that Hailsham was special because it treated the students better than the other places did. Knowing that, I would have expected more comparison between the Hailsham students and the students who came from elsewhere. Why weren't the other students at the cottages more different? There didn't seem to be anything to imply that they'd come from such harsh, dehumanizing circumstances.
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Ana
I agree. It seemed the others always knew that the Hailsham students were privileged (if I can say so) but the differences weren't shown whatsoever.
Marcin
I think the difference is as these days in real life between free range chickens and caged chickens. Both serve the same purpose, but their living conditions are vastly different.
Annie Belyak
Apart from Hailsham, there were two other schools that tried a similar experiment and possibly any students that were somewhat described, like that couple from the Cottage, were from one of those. I can't remember if it was mentioned where they came from. However, if you think of it, other students were not really described even. You could hardly compare. A human raised in bad conditions doesn't become an ape, they still behave like humans even if just from copying who they see around. And then obviously they needed to be taught to at least speak and drive so probably the horrible schools did some rudimentary teaching anyway. But mainly, all the other students were mostly irrelevant to the progress of the story. It wasn't necessary to detail them more.
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