"Your lives are set out for you. You'll become adults, then before you're old, before you're even middle-aged, you'll start to donate your vital organs. That's what each of you was created to do." (Never Let Me Go, page 81)
So the reader finally gets some answers on why exactly these children are at Hailsham and what makes them "special". I kind of feel like this situation sounds familiar because it is a lot like Brave New World. In both novels, the main characters have their lives already planned out for them. They don't get to decide what they want to be, it's decided by a higher power. There is also a similar theme of sex and babies. Both novels have the characters not having babies. However, in Never Let Me Go it is physically impossible for the characters to have babies.
Unlike Brave New World, the characters in Never Let Me Go actually show their emotions. If I was in their place, I would be extremely sad that I wouldn't be able to have kids and plan a future. I would also be scared of the whole donating organs thing. However, the kids at Hailsham don't know any different. They have no access to the outside world, so they don't know what a regular life is like. I think deep down they are scared of the unknown, who wouldn't be? But they play it off like it's a joke because they are scared of the truth.
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