* Ruth told Kathy that Chrissie and Rodney have seen Ruth's possible in a town up in Norfolk * In Hailsham the thought of a possible was always doubted. - "back at Hailsham, we'd sensed we weren't supposed to discuss it, and so we hadn't. ( Ishiguro 139) * A possible is a human in which the Hailsham student was copied from - "Since each of us was copied at some point from a normal person, there must be, for each of us, somewhere out there, a model getting on with his or her life." (Ishiguro 139) * In the cottages when ever some student goes out, everyone has an eye out for their possible. There are a lot of rumors about other cottage students finding their possibles * Chrissie and Rodney said they had found Ruth's possible near the seaside, …show more content…
Kathy is surprised by how much concentration Tommy put into the drawings because they have a lot of detail * Ruth still pretends things. Ruth is pretending now that she doesn't remember anything about the rhubarb patch. - " When she put on her puzzled look, I abandoned whatever point I'd been trying to make and said: Ruth, there's no way you've forgotten." (Ishiguro 189) * Kathy dated a guy named Lenny, he was older than her so he left for carer training before her. When this happened Kathy was sad but Ruth always tried to make Kathy happy by doing small favors and helping her out * Ruth found the tape Kathy and Tommy bought together, she was a little mad because no one told her about it -" Neither of you told me." ( Ruth, Ishiguro 191) * In the old churchyard Ruth had found Kathy overheard Ruth yelling at Tommy about the tape. She was mad because Tommy didn't tell her anything about it Chapter 17 * Not until Kathy left the Cottages she realized how important and revealing that conversation at the old churchyard