Madame Oz

"'Poor creatures. What did we do to you ? With all our schemes and plans?'"  Pg. 254

     Just as with Ruth, the walls of their childhood begin to fall down for Kathy and Tommy. Now face-to-face with Madame and Miss Emily, they are confronted with women who have compassion beyond anything Hailsham students could have imagined. Madame hints that the way the students were brought up was unfair and not transparent. I believe it was done for a reason though. The Hailsham students were a whole new kind of nature and a whole new kind of being. The guardians were still figuring things out as these students grew up. They tried things like Madame's gallery without an explanation, leading to wild speculation and rumors among the students. At the heart of the operation though, I believe they had the best interest of the kids in mind. Just because they were copies of someone who already existed did not mean they were to be treated like lab rats. They were not trying to judge each student's self-expression. They had the task of nurturing something they knew little about.