"So for a long time you were kept in the shadows, and people did their best not to think about you. And if they did, they tried to convince themselves you weren't really like us. That you were less than human, so it didn't matter" (263).
This passage helps the reader understand the author's themes by using figurative language to compare the cloned children at Hailsham and the people who were not clones. The word "like" is used to show that the "normal" people and the cloned children were different according to society. The theme the author is trying to portray in this passage is ignorance towards these cloned children. The theme ignorance is portrayed throughout the novel, but this passage stands out the most because it is really portraying the meaning of the author's theme. The purpose of the clones was to raise them and donate their vital organs to the people who were putting them in the societal class of outcasts, when really their purpose was to help. The children are being compared to the normal people at the time as if they weren't human at all, when really the clones had emotions and feelings. The clones were just as much human as all of the other people but they were still looked down upon.
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