Hailsham is the school/home that the children are kept at while they grow up to the age of 13. At the school/home the children are kept from society only seeking it through pictures and lectures the guardians share with them. The children, or students as they are referred to, are forced together through art, music, and sports. Years go by until their last year when they are forced to leave and go out into the world not knowing what the people outside will think of them and how they will be treated.
I believe that it is wrong to keep children away from the outside world and then force them to go into unknown territory. Growing up away from everyone the children don't see the effects they are having on the world and how they are looked upon. In the novel Kazuo Ishiguro tells how the people beyond the gates of Hailsham see the children as sort of aliens and are afraid of them. It is wrong to allow the children to believe they are normal when the world outside thinks differently. I also think that even if the children were created for a reason, to be organ donors, they should be able to live life to the fullest before they are called back donate. Overall it is wrong to send innocent children out into a world, where they aren't accepted, unprepared for the difficulties they will have to face everyday.
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I don't know which book you are talking about because I did not read the same books as you did. What you need to do is put a major title on a post so that we know which book you read first.
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